VIDEO: Cork film festival tracks down its Movie Girl

One of the world’s longest-running film festivals is rolling out the red carpet for a special guest next week who was tracked down after 40 years thanks to the Irish Examiner

Catherine Treacy was a young model and one of Cork Film Festival’s Miss Movie Girls when she posed with the festival’s founder, the late Dermot Breen, and famous French director Francois Truffaut as they were greeted by the then lord mayor, Pat Kerrigan, before the 1974 festival.

The photograph was published in a special Irish Examiner supplement last week celebrating the film festival’s 60th anniversary. A friend of Catherine’s spotted the photograph, took a snap of it on her smartphone, and sent it to her.