Mammal: Irish rising in film

Rebecca Daly’s follow-up to her acclaimed directing debut, joins the growing roll call of recent highly-praised Irish films

Rebecca Daly and Rachel Griffiths on the set of Mammal

‘I’m a watcher,” Rebecca Daly says. “That’s a big part of directing: observing and being interested in people. I would be bored to make a film about me. I understand my own psychology quite well – I’m trying to figure out why someone else would do something. That’s what drives me.”

Sitting poised and looking slightly tense on a couch in the offices of Wildlife Distribution in Dublin, Daly is describing the attributes ...