editor’s letter

I started writing for the Trinity Film Review when I was in first year of college. COVID had completely decimated my freshers experience. I had no societies, ways of making new friends, and a course I felt lukewarm about. Nothing really motivated me. And then one day a Trinity Film Review article comes up on my timeline. It was like the clouds had parted, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was write for TFR.

After one review, I was completely hooked. It was probably an algorithm that recommended that article to me, but I like to think it was Divine Intervention. Working on the Trinity Film Review has been the highlight of my college experience, and I’m jealous of everyone else who comes after me, they’re in for a treat.

I’m aware of how incredibly lucky I am to be in this position. So, instead of writing about the theme of this issue, I’d like to thank everyone who made Trinity Film Review an absolute pleasure to work on, and helped me get to the position I am in today. Don’t worry there’s a huge amount of articles in this issue exploring the film canon in a more

I want to thank Emily Thomas, Peter Horan, and Markéta Ní Eithir for giving me the opportunity in the first place. Seamus Conlon and Luke Bradley for helping and supporting me when I was a deputy editor. I didn’t even know how to edit an article before I met them. Mia Sherry, for even letting me on her editorial team. While she ran Trinity Film Review, which is a full time job in its own right, she also supported and encouraged me, she was the person who made me believe I was actually good at this sort of thing. Which I might not be, you still have to read the rest of the issue. Without her belief in me, I’d probably have just reverted back to being some disengaged BESS student.

And finally, I want to thank my editorial team Cat Earley, Eve Smith, and James Mahon. They are the lifeblood of this magazine. None of this would exist without them. Everything you see on each page is down to them. From their own profound articles, to the numerous prompts they’ve thought of that other people (including myself) have based their articles around, to the lack of typos (something a magazine lives or dies on) to Eve’s beautiful designs. There is no Trinity Film Review without them, and they’ve made my year as Editor-in-Chief an absolute pleasure, and something I’ll treasure for the rest of my life.

For one final time; happy reading, Katie.

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