Happy to keep the focus on film

The Underground Short Film Festival, which takes place in Cork from Saturday to August 16, will, for the first time in its four-year history, screen five feature films.

As well as four classics — Jaws, Alien, Dirty Dancing and Ghostbusters — the festival will screen an Irish feature. How to be Happy, directed by Michael Rob Costine, stars Brian Gleeson (a son of actor, Brendan Gleeson) and is about a psychologist who, following the break-up of his relationship, starts to date his clients in a misguided attempt to make them happy.

Director of the festival, Darren O’Mahony, says that Costine, a Dubliner who studied film at St John’s Central College in Cork, submitted a short film to the first Underground Short Film Festival.