Fastnet Film Festival gets under way in Schull
The Fastnet Film Festival is screening more than 100 short films and features from around the world in unlikely venues — given Schull is a town with no cinema.
The novelty of a town without a regular cinema hosting a film festival has resulted in serious levels of ingenuity. All the venues, whether the ballroom of the local hotel, the parish hall or the many pubs and other buildings screening films have been renamed. So it’s the Odeon, the Savoy, the Palace. Entering the parish hall — the Adelphi — it’s striking how effective it is as a cinema in all its tubular gloom — the effect was possibly heightened by the film on show at the time, Irish gothic The Parting Glass.
