CIFF Legacy Day

CIFF, UCC and IFI present EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES ARCHIVES, ACCESS AND CREATIVE REUSE

WED 12 | UCC FSM AUDITORIUM B.10B Kane Building | 10:00 - 18:00

Marking the Festival’s 70th edition, Legacy Day invites audiences to reflect on the moving image as both cultural treasure and fragile historical record. This symposium brings together filmmakers, archivists, academics, and film practitioners to consider how amateur films, newsreels, and overlooked footage capture everyday lives, while raising questions about preservation, access, and creative reuse.

The day opens with restored footage of CIFF 1965, introduced by Ciara Chambers (UCC) and Don O’Mahony (CIFF). This is followed by Archiving the Alternative, where Ellen Scally (UCC), Sarah Arnold (NUI Maynooth), Kasandra O’Connell (IFI), and Sunniva O’Flynn (IFI) examine pioneering women filmmakers, Cork’s cine-enthusiasts, and community-driven clergy filmmakers.

After a light lunch, Preserving Community Archives explores local projects, including The Ballymun Community Films Project and Cork Community Media Hub, with Andrew Keogh (producer, The 4th Act), Emma Bowell (Frameworks Films), and Niall Anderson (IFI), chaired by Kasandra O’Connell.

The afternoon continues with a screening of Aikaterini Gegisian’s Third Person (Plural), a collage essay film made from 200 postwar American newsreels, followed by a Q&A with Gegisian. Legacy Day closes with In the Opinion of the Censor, a screening and discussion with director Andrew Gallimore and producer John Kelleher, and Ciarán Kissane of the Irish Film Classification Office.

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