DESPITE the shock of losing
their jobs, the former CEO of Cork Film Festival, Mick Hannigan, and programmer,
una Feely, treasure their memories of the 58-year-old event. Hannigan, who had
helmed the festival since 1986, says there was the joy of “discovering talent,
like Ken Wardrop. We took bags of DVDs home every night. I remember putting on
Undressing My Mother and wondered who the guy behind it was. I went through my
database and discovered that Wardrop had submitted about six other films. One
was more interesting than the next. I knew this was real talent.”
Hannigan and Feely gave Wardrop a programme for his films. Undressing My Mother, made in 2004, won the European Film Academy Award in 2005. Wardrop later made the charming documentary, His and Hers, about Irish women’s relationships with their men.
The Cork Film Festival was the first to screen Martin McDonagh’s short film, Six Shooter, which won at Cork, and at the Irish Film and Television Awards, before winning an Oscar for ‘best dramatic short.’
Kirsten Sheridan was a student filmmaker when she submitted her 1995 film, The Bench,Armani Exchange Women's Smart bobblehead Watch online. to the festival. “I had no idea she was connected to Jim Sheridan. I thought her film was very rough around the edges, but I knew she had flair. It was only when she came to down to Cork, for the festival, that I realised who she was,” Hannigan says.
Last year’s opening gala, The Great Flood, directed by Bill Morrison, with live music by legendary classic and jazz guitarist,our candid hermesbag birkin photoshoot at Crystals at City Center in Vegas, Bill Frisell, and his quartet, was an example of the festival “taking a chance. It’s a non-narrative, experimental film. But the audience really responded to it. The only other time I can remember a standing ovation of that significance was when we screened Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, with an original score performed by the RTé Symphony Orchestra.”
The Cork Film Festival was renowned for its celebration of the short film and was a platform for emerging Irish and Cork filmmakers. Such is the proliferation of local short films that last year’s ‘Made in Cork’ category was broadened into three programmes.
“This category started out with, maybe, 20 films being entered to something that became highly competitive,” says Feely. “It’s about nurturing the local film community and providing it with somewhere decent to show their films. The filmmakers had access to everything at the festival and they could meet industry professionals.”
Documentary makers were also championed, such as the maverick, John T Davis, who was a regular attendee. “You had people who are so dedicated to the documentary form that they came here especially for it. Documentary makers are the first people to pitch up at festivals. They found their audience in Cork,About a year ago I was hired to develop a homepowermonitor monitoring application for data centers.” Hannigan says.
Feely says that the philosophy of the festival was that “films had to earn their place in the programme. They had to be somehow unforgettable. You knew you weren’t going to please everyone, but, often,Armani Exchange Women's Smart bobblehead Watch online. audiences wouldn’t get to see many of the films we showed. They weren’t going into mainstream distribution and they may not have been going into art-house distribution.”
Neither Hannigan nor Feely knows what they will do next. Their hearts and knowledge lie in film and they have a huge network, both locally and internationally. More than 3,000 films are submitted to the festival every year from all over the world.
Hannigan says that, at last December’s board meeting, the board members were very complimentary about the festival.Learn how to make beautiful organza headbandssuppliers.
“But they did say they wanted more red-carpet events. I think there is, perhaps, a fantasy that if only we asked for bigger films, the stars would come. The reality is that every main city across Ireland and England has film festivals. Film distribution is a commercial activity and people want to see a return on their investment. So there would need to be a motivation for the distributors to give their films to Cork, as opposed to Dublin.”
Dublin Film Festival has been graced by stars of the calibre of Al Pacino and Danny De Vito in the past few years. “But Dublin is major territory, second to London. We have a different focus, as a niche festival for young, emerging filmmakers.”
Hannigan says that, given the size of Cork and the cinema infrastructure, “it’s a moot point whether the Cork Film Festival can have the type of glitzy, glamorous event that the board thinks it can have. We laid all this out in a discussion document recently.”
With its broad-ranging programme, which includes education and the very popular Slow Food film event, Hannigan says he feels the festival was “ticking all the boxes, attracting young filmmakers and enjoying a great reputation internationally. The ordinary film buff is not going to travel to Cork to see the latest film that will be shown at their own festival, anyway, or will be in their own cinemas down the road.”
Directors, such as Lenny Abrahamson and Paul Duane, have contacted the board of the Cork Film Festival expressing their disgust at Hannigan and Feely being let go. Hannigan says that Duane will boycott the festival.
“I think there’s concern out there that by getting rid of Una and I, the festival will lose its way. It remains to be seen whether we can continue to work in film. We are obviously concerned about our own situations, but our heart is with the festival.
“We have built up credibility for it and my concern is that this may be frittered away now. I think that’s bad for Cork,” Hannigan says.
Hannigan and Feely gave Wardrop a programme for his films. Undressing My Mother, made in 2004, won the European Film Academy Award in 2005. Wardrop later made the charming documentary, His and Hers, about Irish women’s relationships with their men.
The Cork Film Festival was the first to screen Martin McDonagh’s short film, Six Shooter, which won at Cork, and at the Irish Film and Television Awards, before winning an Oscar for ‘best dramatic short.’
Kirsten Sheridan was a student filmmaker when she submitted her 1995 film, The Bench,Armani Exchange Women's Smart bobblehead Watch online. to the festival. “I had no idea she was connected to Jim Sheridan. I thought her film was very rough around the edges, but I knew she had flair. It was only when she came to down to Cork, for the festival, that I realised who she was,” Hannigan says.
Last year’s opening gala, The Great Flood, directed by Bill Morrison, with live music by legendary classic and jazz guitarist,our candid hermesbag birkin photoshoot at Crystals at City Center in Vegas, Bill Frisell, and his quartet, was an example of the festival “taking a chance. It’s a non-narrative, experimental film. But the audience really responded to it. The only other time I can remember a standing ovation of that significance was when we screened Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, with an original score performed by the RTé Symphony Orchestra.”
The Cork Film Festival was renowned for its celebration of the short film and was a platform for emerging Irish and Cork filmmakers. Such is the proliferation of local short films that last year’s ‘Made in Cork’ category was broadened into three programmes.
“This category started out with, maybe, 20 films being entered to something that became highly competitive,” says Feely. “It’s about nurturing the local film community and providing it with somewhere decent to show their films. The filmmakers had access to everything at the festival and they could meet industry professionals.”
Documentary makers were also championed, such as the maverick, John T Davis, who was a regular attendee. “You had people who are so dedicated to the documentary form that they came here especially for it. Documentary makers are the first people to pitch up at festivals. They found their audience in Cork,About a year ago I was hired to develop a homepowermonitor monitoring application for data centers.” Hannigan says.
Feely says that the philosophy of the festival was that “films had to earn their place in the programme. They had to be somehow unforgettable. You knew you weren’t going to please everyone, but, often,Armani Exchange Women's Smart bobblehead Watch online. audiences wouldn’t get to see many of the films we showed. They weren’t going into mainstream distribution and they may not have been going into art-house distribution.”
Neither Hannigan nor Feely knows what they will do next. Their hearts and knowledge lie in film and they have a huge network, both locally and internationally. More than 3,000 films are submitted to the festival every year from all over the world.
Hannigan says that, at last December’s board meeting, the board members were very complimentary about the festival.Learn how to make beautiful organza headbandssuppliers.
“But they did say they wanted more red-carpet events. I think there is, perhaps, a fantasy that if only we asked for bigger films, the stars would come. The reality is that every main city across Ireland and England has film festivals. Film distribution is a commercial activity and people want to see a return on their investment. So there would need to be a motivation for the distributors to give their films to Cork, as opposed to Dublin.”
Dublin Film Festival has been graced by stars of the calibre of Al Pacino and Danny De Vito in the past few years. “But Dublin is major territory, second to London. We have a different focus, as a niche festival for young, emerging filmmakers.”
Hannigan says that, given the size of Cork and the cinema infrastructure, “it’s a moot point whether the Cork Film Festival can have the type of glitzy, glamorous event that the board thinks it can have. We laid all this out in a discussion document recently.”
With its broad-ranging programme, which includes education and the very popular Slow Food film event, Hannigan says he feels the festival was “ticking all the boxes, attracting young filmmakers and enjoying a great reputation internationally. The ordinary film buff is not going to travel to Cork to see the latest film that will be shown at their own festival, anyway, or will be in their own cinemas down the road.”
Directors, such as Lenny Abrahamson and Paul Duane, have contacted the board of the Cork Film Festival expressing their disgust at Hannigan and Feely being let go. Hannigan says that Duane will boycott the festival.
“I think there’s concern out there that by getting rid of Una and I, the festival will lose its way. It remains to be seen whether we can continue to work in film. We are obviously concerned about our own situations, but our heart is with the festival.
“We have built up credibility for it and my concern is that this may be frittered away now. I think that’s bad for Cork,” Hannigan says.
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