This is a black and white contact sheet of festival staff. The contact sheet comprises four strips each with five images of varying quality. The sheet, annotated with a blue marker, shows the festival team in varying poses at, and around, the office…
This is a black and white photo of Richard Attenborough with Lord Mayor Dan Wallace and others at a civic reception in the Lord Mayor’s office in 1985. Attenborough is signing the visitors' book seated next to the Lord Mayor and festival chairman…
This is a colour photo of former festival chairman Charlie Hennessy with unidentified companions at a drinks reception. Hennessy, on the left, with a drink in hand, looks up somewhat forlornly to the camera. His companions, also holding drinks, pose…
These black and white photos are of festival director Robin O’Sullivan and unidentified colleagues. They show the convivial Robin O’Sullivan, in photos marked 1980s, in conversation with festival attendees. O’Sullivan stepped in to run the film…
This is a colour photograph of the Cork Opera House in a night time scene with an inflatable gorilla on its roof. The photo shows the Opera House lit up in neon lights advertising the film festival. The long exposure of the shot lights up the light…
This is a black and white photo of festival staff, dressed in film festival promotional sweatshirts, on the roof of the Cork Opera House. They are posing amidst the roof-top detritus of abandoned steel poles and advertising hoarding while below them…
The image on the 2008 festival programme cover is vivid with black silhouettes of three birds amidst a floral-like scene of foliage. The foliage is made up of film reel strips in various colours of green interspaced with brighter pinks and purples.…