A busy time for Cork film fests

THE director of Cork’s Underground Film Festival, Darren O’Mahony, says that while film-makers are delighted that there are three film festivals in Cork — not including the French Film Festival and the Fastnet Short Film Festival in Schull — it’s a lot of competition for limited funding sources.

He adds that audiences will eventually see the same films “coming round again and they’ll tire of that”. He hopes that people running festivals in Cork city would sit down together and timetable their events so that they don’t clash or take place too close to each other.

“Our festival is in August, Indie Cork is in October and the Cork Film Festival is in November. You have the Fastnet Short Film Festival earlier in the summer and the French Film Festival in the spring. A lot of other events clash. It would be good if a schedule was worked out.”