Hungry Hill: 'You can live on a farm in Beara and make art that's meaningful'

Mieke Vanmechelen moved with her family to West Cork in the 1980s. Her latest film explores the lives of sheep farmers in an area she's very familiar with, writes Esther McCarthy 

Mieke Vanmechelen and Michael Holly made the Hungry Hill film. 

The beauty of Beara is front and centre in Hungry Hill, a new documentary that captures the lives of sheep farmers on the Caha mountains near Adrigole in Co Cork. 

Co-directors Mieke Vanmechelen and Michael Holly bring the peninsula and its people to life in a film that captures the spirit of and challenges facing the sheep-farming community.