Director Thomas Ryan takes us behind the beard in his new short film Pognophobia, which features at the Short Film Corner of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from 12-16 July.
Jenny Dixon is using her training as both a teacher and an actor to educate and inspire future generations.
The former Fair City star was a science teacher before she found fame on screen, and a chance lunch with a school vice principal prompted her return to academic interests.
‘It’s like two worlds colliding. I am doing some part-time teaching. I was out for a lunch celebrating my one-year wedding anniversary and we were having a bridesmaids’ and mums’ lunch,’ she recalls.
‘It was a double celebration because I had just signed to a UK agency. So I was telling the story of how the UK agent came about and one of the mothers who was there, she is a vice principal, and it came up in conversation. I have qualifications in teaching.