Next March, we can reflect on what happened when an Irish film with a budget of under £2 million, My Left Foot, reinvented and reinvigorated Irish film. Michael Dwyer, the late Irish Times film journalist – the 10th anniversary of his death falls on New Year’s Day 2020 – was in the city reporting on the phenomenon that was this film. The My Left Foot winners, director and producer and others went on to the Beverly Hills Hotel. Three years previously, the Irish Film Board had been abolished. The Irish Film Board, now Screen Ireland/Fís Éireann, was re-established in 1993.

Source: The Irish Times December 22, 2019 06:45 UTC