The month of October sees Cork furiously grab, with both hands, its 'City of Festivals' crown back from those pretenders to the throne as Leeside braces itself for a flurry of both film and musical activity.

The Cork Folk Festival commences this week, followed, in 10 days time, by the Film Festival, before the traditional blow out that is the October Bank Holiday Weekend and the Jazz Festival brings the month to a close.

For one dedicated group of film-makers and music promoters, the Film Festival will represent the culmination of a lofty project, one that has become as much a labor of love as an affront to the notion that to stay put in Cork is also to sacrifice hopes of achieving artistic success in the mediums of both music and film.

A year and a half of solid grafting between parties has resulted in Rock With Your Cork Out, a feature length documentary on the workings of the Cork music scene. A successful entrant in the Cork Film Festival, it gets its premier at the Pavilion on Thursday, October 16, a fitting location given its past history as a cinema and its current incarnation as a thriving music venue.

"To be honest it started out as a much smaller project and just grew and grew," says Mark McCarthy, an active promoter on the Cork music scene and strong advocate of local talent. "Iain (Houten – Co-producer) and myself went to catch The Spikes play one night and I was trying to think of different ideas to promote the gigs I was putting on at the time. I thought it would be a great idea to either try to stream one live online or even to just make something about 10 or 15 minutes long to give to people or put up on youtube and other websites.

"Iain suggested one better and we make a mini documentary. There are so many quality and diverse bands in Cork who to us provided a huge interest and we felt we had to try to make more people aware of what has been happening here over the last few years. It was something that started out with amateur intentions, like recording it on a camcorder and seeing what we could do ourselves. Since none of us had a camcorder or any sort of camera for taking footage I decided to put a few posts up on some internet forums and we were contacted by the Egomotion guys. When we met up with them we realised that we could make a much more professional effort."

"Egomotion is first and foremost a production company," says Daniel O'Connell, a founding member of the on-line community forum. "We strive to create original and exciting media in video/film formats. As part of that we strive to surround ourselves with as many creative and technically skilled people as we can, after all no man is an Island and film-making is above all a collaborative art-form."

"We firmly believe that with new technology, and the current ability to communicate quickly and accurately that making good quality, interesting films is within the grasp of people who want to do it," adds fellow Egomotion founder Sean Wallace. "We want to make them we want other people to make them."

A shared desire to create may have been enough to lead to both Mark and Iain teaming up with Egomotion – however, the Cork music scene, here laid bare under the spot lights and cameras, its success and shortcomings voiced openly and honestly by the very people giving it life, also drew some close parallels with life in the local film community.

"The great think about bands in Cork is their interest in a broad variety of music and how they see it as constantly learning and how making music for them is much more than just commercial success," says Mark. "These people just want to jam, they want to make music and to better themselves. Anything that comes after that is a bonus. I can honestly say that some of these people are the most interesting people I have ever met.