🎙️ Antidote & Venom: 20 Years in the Making

Listen to a panel discussion on the intersections between advertising and film from the 2025 Dublin International Film Festival.

TFV Network presents a recording of a panel discussion from the 2025 Dublin International Film Festival, hosted by Antidote, by one of Ireland’s leading commercial production companies. Titled Parallel Frames: Connecting the Dots Between Ads & Film, the event explored the intersection of advertising and filmmaking. This panel, moderated by TFV’s Matt Micucci, focused on the 20-year parallel journeys of Venom, a company renowned for producing high-quality documentary films, and Antidote, known for producing high-end commercials.

The panel featured director Ken Wardrop and producer Andrew Freedman, co-founders of both Antidote and Venom, along with Jessie Hayden, producer and development coordinator at Venom, and Paula Stewart, producer at Antidote. We were also joined during the panel by director Brendan Canty, whose film Christy won the Grand Prix in the youth-focused Generation 14plus section of the 2025 Berlinale, and director/animator Johnny Kelly, whose upcoming animated short Retirement Plan will premiere at SXSW in just a few weeks. Canty and Kelly contributed by sharing their own experiences of working with Antidote, and navigating the space between advertising and film.

Showcast is a series of candid podcast conversations from the world of film, presented by The Film Verdict and hosted by Matt Micucci.