This black and white photo shows a group of men standing together posing for the camera. We recognise the filmmaker John Boorman standing at the far left in a cheque jacket. He stands alongside the Irish director Norman Cohen, in a dark jacket and…
This is a black and white photo of five Jury members in a photo marked 1970s. The photo only identifies the archivist Liam O’Leary sitting second left, wearing a patterned dickie bow. Liam O’Leary (1910-1992), from Youghal, County Cork, was a film…
This is a stylised black and white photo of three unidentified guests taken at the 1996 festival. They stand together laughing in front of a sign for Murphy’s 41st Cork Film Festival. Two of the guests are wearing lanyards – one of which identifies…
This is a black and white photo marked ‘festival jury’ in a photo dated ‘1960s’. The small group of five sit on a leather-covered high-backed bench, and smile for the camera. While some faces are familiar to us from the archive they remain…
This is a black and white photo of Sinéad Cusack and Jane Asher with the Italian film director Corrado Farina. The three of them are chatting and laughing while standing facing each other. Jane Asher, on the left of the photo, is wearing a…
This is a black and white photo of Patrice Legendre and Louis Marcus in conversation. A young Legendre, in a herringbone tweed jacket, is shown in profile listening to a Marcus on the right. Both are wearing festival pins on their jackets and if we…
This is a black and white photo of the pioneering film critic Bjørn Rasmussen. In this photo, marked 1958, Rasmussen is seated at a desk speaking into a microphone. He rests his hands, folded over each other, on the crook of a wooden walking stick…
This is a black and white photo of the 1956 Cork Film Festival Jury. The eight jury members are grouped formally with five seated at the front with three standing behind them. The seven men are dressed formally in dark suits with bow ties, while the…
This is a black and white photo of the British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha standing with a group of colleagues including festival director Dermot Breen. The group of seven, dressed in travel attire, pose genially for the camera in front of the…