Five screenwriters, chosen from onepage story-idea submissions, will be invited to make their pitch in person before a panel of experts and a public audience. The winner will receive 5,000.

With Cork Film Festival, due to celebrate its 52nd birthday in October, signing a threeyear sponsorship deal with Corona worth 500,000 and Jameson Dublin International Film Festiva, which enjoyed record attendances earlier this year, welcoming a new programme director Grainne Humphreys, it would seem that Irish film festivals have never had it so good.

Tory tempts cinephiles As an aperitif of the Galway Film Fleadh, movie enthusiasts might be tempted up coast to the third Tory Island Film Festival which runs from 5-9 July. It'll be opened by Bob Quinn and is a showcase for features, films and documentaries from the coastal regions of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and beyond, including the world premiere of a remastered print of Jean Epstein's Finis Terrae, which has been likened to Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran. Full details from www. toryfilmfestival. com.

IRELAND: TOP FIVE MOVIES
(13-17 June)

1(-) Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (Tim Story) 585,796 (-)
2(1) Ocean's 13 (Steven Soderbergh) 390,754 ( 1,248,934 to date)
3(2) Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski) 180,021 ( 4,034,061)
4(3) Are You Done Yet ? (Steve Carr) 85,064 ( 219,205)
5(-) Vacancy (Nimrod Antal) 81,256 (-)

Compiled from Sunday Tribune industry sources

US: TOP FIVE MOVIES
(15-17 June)

1(-) Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (Tim Story) $57.4 m (-)
2(1) Ocean's 13 (Steven Soderbergh) $19.1m ($69.8m to date)
3(3) Knocked Up (Judd Aptow) $9.3m (�34.7m)
4(2) Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski) $12m ($273.8m)
5(3) Surf's Up $9.3m ($34.7m)