30/10/2014 - Testament of Youth, Electricity to bookend festival

Testament of Youth by James Kent

Director Andrea Arnold (Wuthering Heights [+see also:
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film profile]. Bernie McLaughlin, Foyle Film Festival director, said, “The jump from making a short film to making a feature can be daunting for the first-timer. This conference is all about helping filmmakers bridge that gap and take things to the next level.”

The event is supported by Honeycomb – Creative Works programme, which is part financed by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG IVA Cross-border programmed managed by the Special EU Programmes Body, and Northern Ireland Screen.

The festival opens with James Kent’s Testament of Youth [+see also:
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