A singular vision

British director Mike Leigh is a guest speaker at Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival this week, Conor Power reports

VETERAN film director Mike Leigh is explaining some of the elements that convinced him to come over to our shores to the fourth edition of the annual Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival in Schull, Co Cork this week.

This year, the 69-year-old award-winning British auteur is giving a public interview on the closing day of the festival. He first heard of the FSFF when he met a delegation at the Guadalajara Film Festival in Mexico earlier in the year.