Schull’s film festival is the reel deal for celebs

While the French Riviera gets on with its enormous film festival, a smaller event is taking place on a palm-tree-fringed West Cork coastal village.

The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival is now entering its seventh year. Given the fact that it’s located in such a far-flung and cinema-less destination as Schull, it’s quite an achievement that it exists at all.

Yet this festival has more than punched above its weight for the last six years of its existence, pulling in some of the most interesting and sought-after personalities in the world of cinema.