Belfast

Matt Feury

Editor – Úna Ní Dhonghaíle ACE, BFE

BELFAST editor, Úna Ní Dhonghaíle joins director Kenneth Branagh once again for their third feature together; having previously collaborated on ALL IS TRUE (2018) and the upcoming DEATH ON THE NILE (2022).  Branagh describes BELFAST as his “most personal film” about a young boy’s childhood amidst the tumult in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the late 1960’s.

ÚNA NÍ DHONGAÍLE

BELFAST editor, Úna Ní Dhonghaíle is also well known for her work on THE CROWN, MISBEHAVIOUR, THREE GIRLS and STAN AND OLLIE. She has worked on the leading lights of British drama in what some are calling “The Golden Age of Television”. Having completed a degree in Film and Media Studies in her native Dublin, Úna specialized in film editing at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) from 1995-1998.

Úna earned her first of four BAFTA nominations in 2009 for the Abi Morgan’s TV feature WHITE GIRL.  Over a five year period, she co-directed and edited a documentary INVISIBLE MAN, for which she won the 2016 IFTA for Best Editing in Television. Úna has also received much recognition for her editing of the highly acclaimed BBC drama THREE GIRLS, for which she won the BAFTA award for Best Fiction Editing, the Technicolor Craft Award from Women In Film UK, the IFTA for Best Editing, the RTS Award for Best Editing of Fiction, the RTS West of England Award for Editing and the Televisual British Bulldog Award for Editing.

Editing BELFAST

In our discussion with BELFAST editor, Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, we talk about:

  • Finding the film’s narrator in Van Morrison’s music
  • Aligning the audience with a child character
  • Establishing a scene through sound design
  • Collaborating with director Kenneth Branagh
  • Leveraging the inherent tension from a historical event

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