The 1998 festival poster is a painterly representation of a large yellow face, slightly smiling - we can only see the edge of the mouth - looking out at the viewer from the right edge of the poster. Half the face is shown with the focus on the right…
This is a black and white photo taken at Dublin Airport of the festival director Dermot Breen with two colleagues, one of whom is identified as Riain Timon. Timon, on the far left, is looking towards Breen smiling. The unidentified lady, wearing a…
This is a black and white publicity photo of the English actor Lynda Bellingham attributed to PR services, Dublin. Bellingham, wearing a light-coloured dress, is shown glancing upwards and smiling as she eats from a napkin-covered dish. Lynda…
This is a black and white photo of festival committee member Dick Beamish in conversation with an unidentified colleague. She is dressed in a light-coloured jacket accessorised with a black handbag and sunglasses holding back her blond hair. She is…
This is a black and white photo of the film producer Greg Smith standing with Tom Nicholas, festival director Dermot Breen, and the actor Lynda Bellingham. Breen and Bellingham are facing the camera smiling, while Nicholas and Smith are in…
This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen with an unidentified colleague. They are turned towards each other in conversation, while the light of the camera catches the warm smile of the woman. The photo is marked ‘London,…
This is a black and white photo of the Russian film composer Dimitri Tiomkin with his wife, Olivia Tiomkin, and two others including festival director Dermot Breen. They are attending a press reception at the Café Royal in London, for the Soviet…
The front cover of the 2003 festival programme is text-heavy with a heart at its centre. The red heart is outlined with a narrow strip of images from the world of cinema. The images include actors and cartoon images in various bright-hued colours.…
The image on the 2005 festival programme cover is by the artist Patrick Morrison, who was an LA-based Cork-born artist (1945-2013). It is a detail from his painting Mambo Negro which is in the collection of the actor Peter Weller. (The full painting…
This is a black and white photo of the film critic Francis Koval with the festival director Dermot Breen and a colleague identified as Dimitri Kazma. Koval, on the left with glass in hand, is smiling directly at the camera while Breen is turned…