New film festival launched in Clonakilty this weekend

FILM buffs in west Cork are in for a treat this weekend with the holding of the inaugural Flux film and multimedia festival in Clonakilty.

The festival, which is due to be held on Friday and Saturday, will feature an international selection of films, with submissions from Spain, Canada and Sweden, as well as numerous Irish films.

The festival, which is being funded by the Arts Council, is being run by Elaine Mackey from Montenotte and Chloe de Buyl-Pisco who hails from Belgium. According to Elaine the notion of holding a film festival in west Cork came through a local arts initiative: “The idea was proposed to the arts council by a local arts group known as Random Animals. The project was handed over to Chloe and myself, and we discussed how we could do something in August 2006 and now Flux is a reality.”