Ecologist Carl Dixon tells Ellie O’Byrne how an article he wrote for this newspaper inspired him to make a documentary about a female angler that is enchanting audiences in the US and Europe

’I felt sick when I saw it," Deputy Tom Barry said in response to The Cork Film Centre’s leaflet highlighting the unwise decision to cut all funding to the centre (Irish Examiner, September 10).

This week, Cork City Hall will resound to schoolchildren discovering the beauty of classical music and the instruments that create it.

Cork Film Centre has been at the forefront of the growth of filmmaking in the south, writes Carl Dixon