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1st, 2nd & 3rd May 2009 “We the directors of the Ulster History Park Ltd. are pleased to be associated with the Mid Ulster Film Festival, as it is very much in keeping with the ethos of the Park. Being a sponsor of this major event is extremely important to us and will further our engagement with the community as the Park continues to establish itself as a major tourist attraction and a future conference and training venue.” The Ulster History Park Gortin Road, Omagh Co. Tyrone, BT79 7SU 1st, 2nd & 3rd May 2009 INDEX Welcome 1 SHORTS Opening Gala 2 Cinemobile Shorts 22 Opening Feature - Cinema Paradiso 3 Reel One 23 Friday Late Night Feature - 8.5 Hours 4 Reel Two & Reel Three 24 Reel Four 25 Timetable Cinemobile 5 Reel Five 26 Timetable Studio One 6 & 7 Reel Six & Reel Seven 27 Timetable Studio Two 8 Reel Eight & Reel Nine 28 Timetable Shorts Pavilion 9 Reel Ten 29 Reel Eleven & Reel Twelve 30 FEATURES SHORTS PAVILION - Reel Thirteen to Reel Twenty 31 Saturday Matinée - Cats & Dogs 10 Saturday Feature - Nobody’s Fool 11 FRINGE EVENTS 32 & 33 Saturday Late Night Feature - Lodo 12 Sunday Matinée - Jean de Florette 13 TRANSITION TOWN 34 DOCUMENTARIES PITCHING EVENT 35 Best School for George and Me 14 Hobby 14 The Pictures & The Movies 36 Alaska Far Away 15 Paradiso 16 WORKSHOPS Peace, Love, Unity and Having Fun 16 Student Film Making Workshop 36 Horslips - Return of the Dancehall Sweethearts 17 Radio Broadcasting Workshop 36 Prods & Pom Poms 18 Music Video Workshop 37 Rua 18 Digital Media Workshop 37 Descendants 19 Elogy to the Horizon 19 TABLE QUIZ 38 Tea on the Axis of Evil 20 Closing Film - ¿La Verdad? 21 INFO 40 WELCOME Welcome to the sixth Mid Ulster Film Festival, once again held on the first weekend of May, the Bank Holiday Weekend. We are really excited this year as we Fáilte are moving to a new venue - The Ulster History Park, Gortin Road, Omagh. Mirë se erdhët Dobrodošli The Ulster History Park is a unique location for festival goers with its own Vítáme Vás purpose built theatre, restaurant, bar, on-site cottages and campsite. Set in the Het welkom spectacular Glens of Gortin - the perfect reason for a weekend break ! Bienvenue Tervetulao Mid Ulster Film Festival continues to go from strength to strength with Willkommen submissions and audience numbers up, and visiting filmmakers from places as καλωσορισετε far away as Tunisia and Sri Lanka. We have an eclectic programme of features, Sana dazua documentaries, films for children, shorts, workshops and seminars, with a bit of Benvenuti adventure, art, music and craic thrown in. Masayáng pagtanggáp Tubifurije Ikaze We feel privileged and honoured to bring such outstanding independent and Kinyarwanda world film to this location. We’ve been inundated with International and Irish Boyambi submissions, over 80 films will be shown over the weekend, add to this, themed Lingala nights, film festival quiz, master classes, pitching event and lots of other fringe Sveiki atvykæ events, including art & craft exhibitions, The European Market and adventure Siyaliyemukela activities in the forest - A Cinematic Retreat for all. Ndebele Witajcie A warm welcome, to all our international filmmakers and guests who have made Bem-vindo the long journey to attend our film festival, we look forward to meeting you and all добро пожаловать our friends, both old and new. Hope to see you there Bine aţi venit Vitajte A huge big thank you to all who submitted films, our tutors, lecturers, funders, Soo dhawow corporate sponsors, volunteers, families and friends. Bienvenida Karibu Hoş geldiniz From the team at the Mid Ulster Film Festival 2009 Croeso Welcome 1 OPENING GALA Ulster History Park Friday 1st May 7:30pm Tickets - £10 ‘Latino’ Themed Party Dress (Prizes for Best Dressed) Opening Ceremony FRIDAY Italian Wine/Cheese Reception Performances by:- Alberto Gariglio • Stefano Schiavo Campo Noni Stapleton • Nicole Rourke Together One Voice • Keith McDermott Opening Film - Cinema Paradiso Late Show - 8.5 Hours Late Night Italian Supper & DJ Kosta 2 OPENING FILM Cinema Paradiso Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore Italy/France, 1988, 118 minutes, PG Starring: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin Salvatore’s mentor, Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), has died. Salvatore hasn’t been home for 30 years. FRIDAY Before returning for the funeral, he reminisces about his life and the effect Alfredo has had on it. He also remembers the only woman he ever loved, Elena (Brigitte Fossey). “Cinema Paradiso is a wonderful film, completely faultless. Direction: perfect. Acting: perfect. Script, cinematography, editing, musical score: perfect. All the awards that it won - Cannes Grand Jury Prize, foreign language Oscar, five Baftas, and countless others - were richly deserved. Any that it didn’t win must have been a fix. Cinema Paradiso is perfect...” - Keith Dudhnath, ‘Eye for Film’ Friday 1st May 8pm - Cinemobile 3 LATE SHOW 8.5 Hours N. Ireland Premiere Drama - 112 min Instigator Films, Brian Lally, Ireland, July 2008 Starring Geraldine Plunkett (Glenroe) ‘8.5 Hours’ is a complex portrayal of a working day that has extraordinary implications for the four characters - FRIDAY their lives linked by virtue of sharing an office. Focusing on the pressures of these characters on one day, the film aims to chronicle the winding down of Ireland’s boom years, a period of extraordinary opportunity for many but also a time of lost opportunities for some and an undercurrent of regret permeates throughout the film. Each of the characters experiences a series of events that changes their lives, some events influenced by the other characters where their paths intersect, others occurring almost independently and lived out in the character’s own private thoughts as they recall events in their past which still haunt them. Each of the four characters has a story, all of which are ultimately resolved by the end of the working day, 9am to 5.30pm, the 8.5 hours of the title. www.instigatorfilms.com Friday 1st May 10pm - Studio One 4 Saturday, 2nd May Sunday, 3rd May 10.45 Shorts Reel 11.00 AM Page 22 AM Cats & Dogs Rip and the Preacher Page 10 Chains Gentry Morris - The Waltz The Morse Collectors 2.00 Spanish Shorts Reel Black Taxi PM Page 22 Because there are Happy as Larry things you never forget A Better Life The Mouth Telemaco The Confession La Tuerca 2.00 La Loteria PM Jean de Florette Page 13 CINEMOBILE * Programme and timessubjecttochange * Programme 4.00 4.30 PM PM Tea on the Alaska Far Away Page 15 Axis of Evil Page 20 7.30 Nobody’s Fool ¿La Verdad? 7.30 PM Page 11 Page 21 PM 5 TIMETABLE STUDIO ONE 6 TIMETABLE Saturday, 2nd May Sunday, 3rd May 11.00 11.00 AM Reel One Page 23 Reel Four Page 25 AM Mama is a star Brother ‘die Wartezeit’ - The Wait Seashell Hotel Who Wants Roberto Santini’s Pop-Up Adventure Guts Domestic Flight Window Because there are things you Shadows in the Wind never forget Reprieved I’ll C U L8R From Darkness Pantomime Chains The Moth and the Firefly I’ll Tell You Blip 1.30 1.30 PM Reel Two Page 24 Reel Five Page 26 PM The Mouth Charlie’s Story Lullaby E Finita A Comedia Bert Mariella Jam A Better Life Hobby Chains Elvis is in the Van - The Confession A Short Film About Freedom Rua La Tuerca Saturday, 2nd May Sunday, 3rd May 11.00 11.00 AM Reel One Page 23 Reel Four Page 25 AM Mama is a star Brother ‘die Wartezeit’ - The Wait Seashell Hotel Who Wants Roberto Santini’s Pop-Up Adventure Guts Domestic Flight Window Because there are things you Shadows in the Wind never forget Reprieved I’ll C U L8R From Darkness Pantomime Chains The Moth and the Firefly I’ll Tell You Blip 1.30 1.30 PM Reel Two Page 24 Reel Five Page 26 PM The Mouth Charlie’s Story Lullaby E Finita A Comedia Bert Mariella Jam A Better Life Hobby Chains Elvis is in the Van - The Confession A Short Film About Freedom Rua La Tuerca Saturday, 2nd May Sunday, 3rd May 4.00 4.00 PM Reel Three Page 24 Reel Six Page 27 PM Manual Practico The Morse Collectors Del Amigo Imaginario Humanitas Change Reflections The Bet Torero Telemaco The Debt Collector Border Control Tom Mathews - The Devil and I Waiting for Goldfish Rip and the Preacher Because there are things you never forget Gentry Morris - The Waltz 6.00 6.00 PM Reel Seven Page 27 PM Peace, Love, Unity STUDIO ONE and Having Fun Cúilín Dualach Page 16 Decendants Page 19 10.00 PM Horslips - Return of the Dance Hall Sweethearts Page17 7 TIMETABLE 8 TIMETABLE STUDIO TWO Saturday, 2nd May Sunday, 3rd May 11.00 11.00 AM Reel Eight Page 28 AM Transition Town To Catch the Wind Awakening Showcase Page 34 Shadow Boxers The Bling Witch Project The Best School for 1.30 Prods & Pom Poms 1.30 PM George & Me Page 18 PM Page 14 2.30 2.30 PM Reel Nine Page 28 Reel Eleven Page 30 PM Because there are things Poetic Licence you never forget Photography by Fire Step Seven Recollection Country Life La Loteria Border Control Black Taxi 4.00 4.00 PM Reel Ten Page 29 Reel Twelve Page 30 PM Paradiso The Molky Way Charlie’s Story Basil & Nettles Granny’s Ghost Golgota Elogy to the Horizon 6.00 Page 19 PM 10.00 Late Night Feature PM Lodo Page 12 SHORTS PAVILION SHORTS Saturday, 2nd May Sunday, 3rd May 11.00 11.00 AM Reel Eight Page 28 AM Transition Town To Catch the Wind Awakening Showcase Page 34 Shadow Boxers The Bling Witch Project The Best School for 1.30 Prods & Pom Poms 1.30 PM George & Me Page 18 PM Page 14 2.30 2.30 PM Reel Nine Page 28 Reel Eleven Page 30 PM Because there are things Poetic Licence you never forget Photography by Fire Step Seven Recollection Country Life La Loteria Border Control Black Taxi 4.00