Philomena director Stephen Frears to speak at film festival in Schull

Director Stephen Frears will talk film in Schull next week, says Conor Power.

VETERAN British film director Stephen Frears — along with Steve Coogan, star and co-screenwriter of Frears’ last film, Philomena — will attend the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival in Schull, West Cork, later this month.

He has been in Cork previously. “I think it was in the 1990s. I showed a film at the Cork Film Festival. It’s gorgeous, Cork. I spent a night there. I can’t wait to get back,” he says from the cutting room of his latest film — a biopic of American cyclist Lance Armstrong.