Martin McDonagh is set for a masterclass and career retrospective at the 48th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF).
The British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, director and producer will discuss his career in theater and film and his inspirations with an audience in Hong Kong. In a career spanning three decades, McDonagh has won an Academy Award, six BAFTAs, four Golden Globes and three Olivier Awards.
After finding success in theater, with seminal plays such as The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996), The Cripple of Inishmaan (1996), A Skull in Connemara (1997) and The Lonesome West (1997), McDonagh found global success as a feature filmmaker with a series of movies noted for their wit, dark themes and black humor.
HKIFF will screen McDonagh’s 2004 Oscar-winning short Six Shooter, as well as his breakout feature, the Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson-starring crime drama In Bruges (2008), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay and won a BAFTA in the same category.
The festival will also show 2012’s Seven Psychopaths, the comedy crime drama starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson and Christopher Walken; 2017’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and The Banshees of Inisherin, the drama that scored Oscars for stars Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell; and 2022’s The Banshees of Inisherin, which was nominated for nine Academy Awards.
HKIFF runs from 28 March to 8 April. The festival will announce its complete program later this month.
