Pictures of success

IN 1993 Michael D Higgins, then Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, took the fateful decision to re-institute the Irish Film Board, the national film development agency, which had run briefly between 1980 and 1987.

Twenty years on, the board’s rebirth has certainly fed enormous change in the Irish film sector.

Current chief executive, James Hickey, remembers well the pre-1993 days. He was then providing legal advice on films such as The Field and My Left Foot.