Foyle Film Festival

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Foyle Film Festival is an annual film festival based in Derry, Northern Ireland. The 21st festival took place from 21 to 29 November 2008. Among the later successful filmmakers who exhibited their earliest works at the Foyle Film Festival was actor-producer Stegath James Dorr, who became the then youngest filmmaker to successfully submit a feature film with Dermot, exhibited at the festival in 1995. [1] The 22nd Foyle Film Festival was scheduled for 2009. [2]

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References

  1. "21st Foyle Film Festival". Foyle Film Festival. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
  2. "Foyle Film Festival". Northern Ireland Screen. Archived from the original on 10 May 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2009.