1999 Best International Short Film
Real Men Eat Meat
Director: Maria von Heland
Producer: Maria von Heland
Sweden

1999 Best European Short Film
Comm-Raid On The Battleship Potemkin
Director: Enda Hughes
Producer: Solon Papadopoulos
N. Ireland 1999

Best Irish Short Film
The Case Of ... Majella McGinty
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
Producers: Siobhan Bourke, Kathryn Lennon
Ireland

1999 Claire Lynch First Short Film Award
Love And Other Unspeakable Acts
Director: Brigid Fitzgerald
Producer: Marie-Therese Duggan
Ireland

1999 Examiner "Made in Cork" Award
Inside Out
Director: Carol O'Keefe
Producer: Sophie Turaud
Ireland

1999 Best Black and White Cinematography
The Tale Of The Rat That Wrote
Director: Billy O'Brian
Producers: Ruth Kenely-Letts, Lisa Marie Russo
Ireland

1999 Audience Award
Last Mango In Dublin
Director: Hugh Farley
Producer: Karen Edmonds
Ireland

1999 Highlights

• Opening Gala: (USA) Limbo which is directed by John Sayles and features Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as a nomadic cabaret singer and David Strathairn as a former fisherman with whom she becomes involved in Alaska.
• Closing Gala: (USA) Sugar Town, co-directed by Alison Anders and Kurt Voss
• Premiere of the "Blair Witch Project" which was produced by Robin Cowie and Greg Hale
• Fourth cinema is recruited as festival expands. Gate Multiplex is added to the Cork Opera House, Triskel Arts Centre, and the Kino Cinema as a screening venue
• Special screening of Alfred Hitchcock 1929 silent film "Blackmail" complete with live music by Bernard Geary
• Screening of Enda WalshÕs "Not a bad Christmas"