Mick Hannigan with James Nesbitt and others

Mick Hannigan with James Nesbitt and others

Cork Film Festival, Mick Hannigan, James Nesbitt

This is a black and white photo of festival director Mick Hannigan with film festival attendees one of whom is identified as James Nesbitt. The photo is marked '1980s' coinciding with Hannigan’s stewardship of the festival. He stands on the right of the photo, glass in hand, smiling broadly at the camera. Nesbitt, leaning forward with his hand on the shoulder of a beaming child, and his companion in a light-coloured dress, also smile for the camera. Behind them, artwork adorns the walls of the unidentified location.

Hannigan worked for the festival for 27 years until leaving in 2013. He previously worked with the poet Theo Dorgan at the Triskel Arts Centre in the early eighties before they took up the cudgels of the film festival. Together they were a formidable team and consolidated the work of the festival bringing short and independent films to big venues such as the Cork Opera House. Hannigan later opened the first art-house cinema in Cork – The Kino – based on Washington Street at the top of the Western Road in 1996. It shut down in 2009 but for many years ran both popular and art-house films and, in conjunction with the Cork Film Festival, brought retrospective and cultural films to Cork. Hannigan now runs the IndieCork Film Festival with Úna Feely, who was a programmer for the Cork Film Festival from 2001 until her departure in 2013.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Dave Blunt

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1980

Dave Blunt

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1980
Cork, Ireland

Photo

179 x 300mm