Curtains Raised at 2009 Dingle Film Festival
11 Sep 2009 :
Spiderhole, Irish premiere Tweet The 2009 Dingle Film Festival begins today with an opening ceremony followed by the screening of Buster Keaton and Charles Reiner’s classic ‘Steamboat Bill Jr.’ with a new full-length score performed live by Peter Blanchette. The festival, now in its 3rd year, has this year named comedy as its theme and will screen a line-up of films in that genre such as ‘Monty Python’s The Holy Grail’, ‘The Brian Cowen Story’, ‘The Truman Show’ and ‘The Big Lebowski’. And whereas festival director, Maurice Galway, tells IFTN he is excited about all the film screenings he says he is particularly looking forward to the screening of ‘Spiderhole’, the first Irish film shot using RED cameras, from director Daniel Simpson and producer Patrick O’Neill - both of whom will introduce the film at the festival. Festival Marquee in the Garden Café is Dingle’s newest venue where Geoff Wonfor’s ‘The Beatles Anthology’ will receive its first ever public screening. There will be a public interview with Geoff Wonfor on Sunday September 13 at 12 noon in the Festival Marquee followed by the screening of the film. What’s important to Maurice, he tells us, is that the Dingle Film Festival stay true to its goal which started with the desire for a boutique festival set in a stunning environment with excellent guests and the opportunity for people to enjoy films. The third Dingle Film Festival starts today, September 10 and runs until Sunday, September 13th. For more information, or screening timetable information see www.dinglefilmfestival.com Free Industry Newsletter Subscribe to IFTN's industry newsletter - it's free and e-mailed directly to your inbox every week. Click here to sign up.

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