2003 Jameson Award for Best Irish Short
Full Circle
Director: Simon Fitzmaurice
Producers: Ross McDonnell, Karol Sadceir
Ireland

2003 Claire Lynch Award for Best First Short
by an Irish Director
Two Fat Ladies
Director: John Hayes
Producers: Celine Cawley, Andy Bradford
Ireland

2003 Best International Short
United We Stand
Director: Hans Peter Moland
Producer: Ørjan Karlsen
Norway

2003 Best "Made in Cork" Short
Shhh!
Director: Peter Gleeson
Producer: Peter Gleeson
Ireland

2003 Audience Award for Best Irish Short
Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom
Director: Daniel O'Hara
Producer: Grainne O'Carroll
Ireland

2003 Audience Award for Best International Short
Rave Against The Machine
Directors: James Harvey, Richard Rudy, Stevan Riley, Holly Lubbock
Producers: James Harvey, Richard Rudy, Stevan Riley, Holly Lubbock
England

2003 Outlook Award for Best Lesbian and Gay Film
Did Anyone Notice Us?
Director: Edmund Lynch
Ireland

2003 Award of the Festival
Love Me Or Leave Me Alone
Director: Duane Hopkins
Producer: Samm Haillay
England

2003 Highlights

• Opening Gala: (Ireland) "Song for a Raggy Boy" based on a true story by Cork writer Patrick Galvin and directed by Aisling Walsh. The film tells the story of one man's courage to stand up and fight the brutal regime in a boy's reformatory school in the 1930s. The film stars Aidan Quinn who attends its screening
• Closing Gala: (Ireland) Mystics written by Wesley Burrows and directed by David Blair.
• Sneak preview screenings of Quentin TarantinoÕs "Kill Bill: Volume 1" and Richard Curtis' "Love Actually", both of which screen to full houses.
• Irish Premiere Screening of "Cowboys and Angels" directed by David Gleeson. Set in Limerick, Michael a shy civil servant life changes when he moves into an apartment with a gay fashion design student
• John Hurt, one of the world cinema's most versatile actors receives the Cork Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. John Hurt partakes in a public interview with Michael Dwyer
• Screening of Charlie Chaplin Movies "The Champion", "His New Job", "Easy Street" and "the Immigrant" in the Farmgate Café in the English Market with musical accompaniment provided Bernard Geary.
• Launch of the Slow Food On Film in the Festival. A sensual evening of food and wine prior to the screening of the "Slow Food Revolution" documentary