COLM McCarthy was just nine years old when he first decided that he wanted to become a director.
After suddenly realising his favourite movies and television shows were all “put together and filmed” by people, the Edinburgh-born film fanatic declared that this “sounded like [his] dream job.”
But, rather than immediately setting out to achieve this ambition, “the realities” of life soon held McCarthy back. “My teenage years at school kind of put that idea to bed. It just didn’t seem like something that was real,” McCarthy tells the Sunday National over the phone.
