Countdown to festival of film

THE 58th Cork Film Festival catalogue will be launched at the Electric bar this evening. The festival is six weeks away, but its new creative director, James Mullighan — a former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival — says the lead-in will allow for as many tickets as possible to be sold.

“It’s what we did at Edinburgh. It’s standard practice. It also takes the pressure off the catalogue team, because there will be a page saying that additional programming will be announced in the run-up the festival. It will give me the opportunity to go to the London Film Festival and get a few last-minute titles,” he says.