Cork Film Festival was non-competitive
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1982 Highlights
- Film Festival goes ahead despite speculation about its
future
- Financial difficulties result in the scrapping of the
competitive short film section with the resulting absence
of jurys, delegates and personalities
- New style festival consists of 18 feature films from 12
countires. No shorts are screened
- Arts Council agree to pay off festival debts of £41,000
- Cork International Film Festival titled is changed to
Festival of Film Cork as it is a non-competitive event
- Opening Gala (Germany) Fitzcarraldo, directed by Werner
Herzog who won Best Director Award for the film in the Cannes
Film Festival
- Screening of Neil Jordan's "Angel" the first ever Irish
film written, produced and directed backed by the Irish
Film Board
- Festival is opened by Muiris MacConghal, Chairman of the
Irish Film Board
- World premiere screening of "Outcasts" by Robert Wynne
Simmons
- Festival breaks even as tickets sold for individual shows
rather than for the season.
- Closing Gala: (USA) My Favorite Year, directed by Richard
Benjamin
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