Foyle Film Festival

Foyle Film Festival is one of only a handful of international film festivals with Oscar affiliation and BAFTA recognition. The festival, which is a flagship project of the Nerve Centre, offers filmmakers, animators and artists a unique platform to screen their films, network with industry professionals and gain access to the international market.

Foyle Film Festival delivers a comprehensive programme of documentaries, short films and feature films from all over the world not to mention a full programme of educational events for schools, youth, and adults and an impressive array of industry networking events and panel discussions.

Schools, students and young people will have the opportunity to enjoy a series of films, workshops, guest masterclasses and satellite events next month, as part of the Foyle Film Festival education programme for 2013. This year, under the central theme of ‘legacy’, the curriculum focused programme will explore how historical events such as the Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and Martin Luther King’s iconic, ‘I have a dream speech’, have been recorded and remembered. Running from November 18 to November 29, special guests will include Academy Award® winning actor Jeremy Irons, Emmy Award® winning producer/director, Gerry Gregg and Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier of Sudan’s brutal civil war and now a critically acclaimed hip-hop artist.