Trish McAdam | |
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| Born | 17 June 1955 (age 67) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | Film director |
Trish McAdam (born 17 June 1955) is an Irish screen director.
McAdam was born in Dublin. She got interested in working in film after living in New York City and working with both the filmmaker Vivienne Dick and the photographer Nan Goldin. Her early films in the 1980s included the short Berlin. Since then she has gone on to direct the feature film Snakes and Ladders and more recently the film Confinement. McAdam also made the documentary series Hoodwinked: Irish Women Since the 1920s. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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