Today, I’ll be chatting with Michael Barry. Born and raised in North Belfast, Michael has been in Toronto for over three decades. Michael is the co-founder of the Toronto Irish Film Festival, an event which takes place at the beginning of March each year and has become consolidated in the film festival calendar in a city which is famous for its film festivals. He now manages the successful website, irishfilmtv.com which is an unbelievable resource for Irish film and tv news. Michael discusses these endeavors in our chat and he also explains why he left Belfast for Toronto and how being Irish has shaped his life here in Canada.

There are a number of acronyms we use throughout our chat and I’ll share them with you now in case you are not familiar with them.

TIFF stands for Toronto International Film Festival, the world-famous festival which takes place in Toronto in September each year.

TIRFF stands for Toronto Irish Film Festival which was co-founded by our guest today, Michael Barry.