Interview: Ciaran Shea on “3 Films That Have Impacted Your Adult Life”
Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with Beeston Film Festival Program Director Ciaran Shea, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Police Story’s impact, High Fidelity analysis, and Rubber’s influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power on him. Ciaran Shea also discusses how Beeston Film Festival selects films and what we can expect at 2026’s edition.
- Police Story – Ciaran Shea says Police Story is where his love of film and film education begins via watching movies and eating pizza at his Uncle John’s house.
- High Fidelity – Ciaran Shea says High Fidelity blew him away. In particular the use of the fourth wall, use of music and being compelled to watch a lead who is so flawed, he positively awful.
- Rubber – Ciaran Shea says Rubber is an example of a film that when he shows friends they come away thinking he’s insane. He believes Rubber moulded him to a filmmaker who is willing to be as bold as he wants and do stories that have never been done before.
