Introduction

Welcome to Through The Looking Glass, Cork Film Festival’s youth and family programme. Through the Looking Glass provides the ideal opportunity for young audiences and their families to experience the magic of cinema over the duration of the 2008 Cork Film Festival.

This year’s programme is without a doubt our most adventurous programme yet, ranging from Frédéric Back’s Oscar-winning animations, to vintage silent movie comedy with the legendary Buster Keaton and one of this year’s special guest speakers, John Kelleher, the director of Film Classification in Ireland.

We anticipate that each aspect of this year’s carefully chosen programme will serve to both educate and inspire audiences, hopefully sowing the seeds for a lifetime of cinema apppreciation.

Eoin Ó Catháin,
Cork Film Festival Education Officer

On behalf of the Cork Film Festival I welcome you to Through the Looking Glass, the festival programme for young audiences. Education Officer, Eoin O’Cathain, has assembled a wonderfully varied and exciting progamme of screenings, workshops and events. It includes features, documentaries and short films, contemporary and classic cinema. Some screenings have a direct educational purpose, but most, like with the main festival programme, are presented for audiences’ pleasure and entertainment.

We hope that students and teachers, young people and their parents will enjoy the films, will benefit from meeting the filmmakers and have their love of cinema enhanced.

Mick Hannigan Festival Director
Cork Film Festival

Thanks to
Éanna Ó Brádaigh (Apple Education), John Dyer (BBFC Education Officer), Kerry Mulligan (Cork Education Support Centre), Alain Therrien (Radio Canada), Niamh Leahy (EPA), Aileen McGovern, Éanna de Buis, Myriam Chartrand, Theresa Murphy & Margaret Greene (Gate Cinema North Main Street), John Kelleher (IFCO), Dr. Laura Rascaroli (UCC), Dr. Barry Monahan (UCC), Dr. John Dingliana (TCD)