Mid Ulster Film Festival

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The Mid Ulster Film Festival was a film festival, established in 2004, [1] that took place in Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. The festival was cancelled in 2010 due to a lack of funding needed to run the event. [2]

History

2007 and 2008 festivals

The Fourth festival took place in An Creagán Visitor Centre near Omagh, on 4-6 May 2007, with the European premiere of Proud opening the festival. It included The Last King of Scotland and closed with a showing of Bobby . [3] In the following year, the Film Festival was again held in An Creagán on 2-4 May 2008 and included feature films and over 50 short films, including John, I'm Sorry, foreign-language films, documentaries, workshops and seminars. [4]

2009

The 6th festival took place on 1–3 May 2009. In all, over 80 films were shown over the course of the weekend.[ citation needed ] To accommodate these showings there was a total of four studios, three studios inside the main building at The Ulster His-tory Park, and The Cinemobile, a custom-made truck housing a complete cinema with capacity for approximately 100 people.[ citation needed ]

Cancellation

The 2010 Mid Ulster Film Festival, which was scheduled for 7-9 May 2010, [5] was cancelled due to lack of funding. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Omagh adds to growing Irish film festival circuit". Irish Examiner. 20 April 2004.
  2. 1 2 "Mid Ulster Film Festival website". midulsterfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  3. ↑ "4th Mid Ulster Film Festival". DocumentaryFilms.net. Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
  4. ↑ "Mid Ulster Film Festival". moreismore.net. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
  5. ↑ "Mid Ulster Film Festival, 2010" (PDF). midulsterfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 20 April 2009.[ dead link ]


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