Our Film Club partner, The Irish Times, is no stranger to big conversations. The news media publisher has always championed arts, culture, and creative life in Ireland, shaping national discourse and critical debate.

That relationship runs deep. Former Irish Times film critic and journalist Michael Dwyer was a co-founder of the festival, alongside film producer David McLoughlin, helping establish what would become one of Ireland’s most significant cultural events.

Since then, DIFF has welcomed thousands of filmmakers to Dublin, fostering dialogue between artists, audiences, and industry. The DIFF Film Club presented by The Irish Times continues this tradition by bringing audiences closer to some of the most talked-about guests of the festival.

Ellen Mirojnick is an Oscar-nominated American costume designer responsible for some of the most eye-catching and ostentatiously dressed characters ever to grace the screen.

As costume designer for Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Basic Instinct, A Perfect Murder, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Behind the Candelabra she has created some of actor Michael Douglas’ most iconic looks. Her memorable work with director Paul Verhoeven on Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers and Hollow Man has had a lasting impact on pop culture.

She won an Emmy and a Costume Designers Guild Award in 2013 for her work on the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra and received further acclaim for her work
on The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman and more recently Christopher Nolan’s Oscar winning epic biographical thriller film Oppenheimer for which Mirojnick received a BAFTA for Best Costume Design.

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