The woman behind the West Cork-shot award-winning film

As Carmel Winters’ creation opens the Cork Film Festival tonight, she tells Esther McCarthy  why she’s so glad she shot it in locations around her home county

THIS year’s Toronto International Film Festival will go down as one to treasure for Carmel Winters. Not only did her West Cork-shot film Float Like a Butterfly have its world premiere and win the FIPRESCI Prize for the Discovery Programme, she also married her long-term love, artist and production designer Toma McCullim, in the Canadian city.