Mid Ulster Film Festival

The Mid Ulster Film Festival was an international film festival, established in 2004 by Mary Mullin^[1] and Roisin Nevin. Hugh Mullin and Geoffrey Sproule, film co-ordinator and technician, joined in 2005. The festival was cancelled in 2010 due to a lack of funding needed to run the event.^[2]

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 Festival

The Sixth Annual Mid Ulster Film Festival took place on 1–3 May 2009. In all, over 80 films were shown over the course of the weekend.

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 large custom-made truck housing a complete cinema with capacity for over 100 people.

2010 Film Festival

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

References

1. Irish Examiner website, Omagh adds to growing Irish film festival circuit, article dated April 20, 2004
2. Mid Ulster Film Festival website, retrieved 2024-06-06
3. "4th Mid Ulster Film Festival". Documentary Films.net. Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
4. "Mid Ulster Film Festival". More is More. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
5. "Mid Ulster Film Festival, 2010" (PDF). Mid Ulster Film Festival. Retrieved 20 April 2009. ^{[dead link‍]}

External links

• Mid Ulster Film Festival website