International film festival returns to ‘fishing village with no cinema’

David Puttnam, Jim Sheridan, and Lenny Abrahamson will be among the guests at this year’s 10th Fastnet Film Festival which will feature more than 400 screenings.

The festival, in the Mizen peninsula village of Schull, runs from May 23 for five days and, since its inception, has emerged as a major showcase for Irish and international short film production.

Innovative organisers who established in a fishing village with no cinema will also run a series of seminars, masterclasses and workshops in various locations, including an island.