2004 Jameson Award for Best Irish Short
Undressing My Mother
Director: Ken Wardrop
Producers: Andrew Freedman, Kristin Brook Larsen
Ireland

2004 Claire Lynch Award for Best First Short by an Irish Director
Six Shooter
Director: Martin McDonagh
Producers: Mia Bays, Kenton Allen
Ireland

2004 Best Interntional Short (Shared)
Wasp
Director: Andrea Arnold
Producers: Natasha Mars
England

Polish Your Shoes
Director: Sam Huntley
Producers: Sam Huntley
England

2004 Youth Jury Award for Best International Short
Wasp
Director: Andrea Arnold
Producers: Natasha Mars
England

2004 Irish Examiner "Made in Cork" Award
My First Motion Picture
Director: Padraig Trehy
Ireland

2004 Audience Award for Best Irish Short
Fluent Dysphasia
Director: Daniel O'Hara
Producers: Grainne O'Carroll
Ireland

2004 Audience Award for Best International Short
Undressing My Mother
Director: Ken Wardrop
Producers: Andrew Freedman, Kristin Brook Larsen
Ireland

2004 Outlook Award for Best Lesbian and Gay Film
Embrasser les Tigres (Kissing Tigers)
Director: Lussi-Modeste Teddy
Producers: Grec
France

2004 Award of the Festival
From Room To Another
Director: Risto-Pekka Blom
Producers: Rauni Pantti
Finland

2004 Highlights

• Opening Gala (Ireland)"Inside I'm Dancing" Directed by Dubliner Damien O'Donnell the film tells the story of a paralysed [muscular dystrophy] punk who moves into a flat with Michael who suffers from cerebral palsy
• Closing Gala (France) "Look at Me" directed by Agnes Jaoui and winner of Best Screenplay and the Golden Palm Award in Cannes in 2004
• Ken Wardrop wins the Jameson Award for Best Irish Short Film Award for his film "Undressing My Mother". The Award for Best International Short is shared by Wasp by Andrea Arnold and Polish Your Shoes by Sam Huntley. Wasp goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Short.
• Screening of "Rocky Road to Dublin" a documentary originally made in 1960s and which depicts life in Ireland in the 1960s as priest-ridden and repressed. In the 1960s the film was deemed not suitable for Irish screens but ironically was feted by the Cannes Film Festival. Peter Lennon, director of the 1968 documentary attends the festival.
• Screening of "Mondovino" directed by Jonathan Nossiter as part of the Slow Food Movement. The film looks at the corruption of the international wine industry where small producers struggle against monoliths
• The festival hosts its first club night with renowned London-based DJs and VJs "Addictive TV" who specialise in audiovisual work that fuses music with the moving image
• Festival plays tribute to Brian Desmond Hurst, Ireland's most prolific director. Hurst's biographer Christopher Robbins participates in a public interview
• Screening of Oscar-winning documentary "Chernobyl Heart" which discusses the work of the Irish Charity which assists children suffering from the effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Disaster. Screening is attended by Adi Roche, Director of the Chernobyl Children's Project
• Screening of Chinese documentary Last House Standing. The filmmakers Chao Gan and Zi Liang come to Cork to make a documentary about Cork Film Festival for Shanghai TV Station
• Launch of the Gradam Gael Linn for Best Irish-Language Short Film