Worth saving - Cork Film Festival

FOR many years, the Cork Film Festival brought a welcome injection of out-of-the-ordinary cultural excitement and challenge to the region. Indeed, during the monochrome decades of the 1950s and 1960s, it gave Cork a glimpse of Hollywood glamour unimaginable in any other context.

Starlets waved and some of the locals swooned; it was, indeed, that exciting.

It is, therefore, unfortunate that the festival’s finances are in such disarray and that it has proven such a challenge to establish a management team that might lead the event for more than 12 months.