2000 The Jameson Award for Best International Film
Brother
Director: Adam Elliott
Producer: Adam Elliott
Australia

2000 Best Irish Short Film Award
Buskers
Director: Ian Power
Producer: Mark Byrne
Ireland

2000 Claire Lynch Award for the Best First Film
of an Irish Director
What Are You Looking At?
Director: Tony Keily
Producer: Aileen O'Reilly
Ireland

2000 Made in Cork Award (Shared)
A Short Break
Director: Frank Reid Beechinor
Producers: Frank Reid Beechinor, Keith O'Shea
Ireland

The Denim Queen's Wet Dream
Director: Stephen O'Connell
Producer: Trigger Productions
Ireland

2000 Cork Audience Award for Best International Short Film
Who's My Favourite Girl?
Director: Adrian McDowell
Producer: Kara Johnston
England

2000 Best Black and White Film (Shared)
Pieces Of My Wife
Director: Frederic Pelle
Producer: Bianca Films
France

Love Is All
Director: Oliver Harrison
Producer: Oliver Harrison
England

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 Walsh's "Not a bad Christmas"