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LAUNCH PARTY FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL GALWAY AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL
10/05/2009 18:24
Galway, 18 May, 2009 - A launch party for the second annual Galway African Film Festival will be held on Monday, 18 May, from 5.30pm to 7pm, at the Galway Town Hall Theatre.
This year the African Film Festival will showcase films from all regions of Africa, and include the acclaimed Return to Goree (Youssou N'Dour traces the history of jazz), From a Whisper (Winner of five African Film Academy Awards) and Jerusalema, a blockbuster action-movie from South Africa.
The launch will be officiated by Paul Osikoya, a Green Party candidate for the local elections. Mr Osikoya, originally a Lagos based accountant, is an economics doctoral student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Mr Osikoya has also been actively involved with community groups in Galway, including the Galway One World Centre, one of the organisers of the film festival.
This year the African Film Festival will showcase films from all regions of Africa, and include the acclaimed Return to Goree (Youssou N'Dour traces the history of jazz), From a Whisper (Winner of five African Film Academy Awards) and Jerusalema, a blockbuster action-movie from South Africa.
The launch will be officiated by Paul Osikoya, a Green Party candidate for the local elections. Mr Osikoya, originally a Lagos based accountant, is an economics doctoral student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Mr Osikoya has also been actively involved with community groups in Galway, including the Galway One World Centre, one of the organisers of the film festival.
LAUNCH PARTY FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL GALWAY AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL
Green Party Tuam Town Council candidate, Paul Osikoya, to officiate
Galway, 18 May, 2009 - A launch party for the second annual Galway African Film Festival will be held on Monday, 18 May, from 5.30pm to 7pm, at the Galway Town Hall Theatre.
This year the African Film Festival will showcase films from all regions of Africa, and include the acclaimed Return to Goree (Youssou N'Dour traces the history of jazz), From a Whisper (Winner of five African Film Academy Awards) and Jerusalema, a blockbuster action-movie from South Africa.
The launch will be officiated by Paul Osikoya, a Green Party candidate for the local elections. Mr Osikoya, originally a Lagos based accountant, is an economics doctoral student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Mr Osikoya has also been actively involved with community groups in Galway, including the Galway One World Centre, one of the organisers of the film festival.
The Galway African film festival is being organised by the Galway One World Centre, the Galway Film Society, and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. The event, which is sponsored by Irish Aid, will be held on Sunday 31May. Detailed festival programmes will be available at the launch or from the organisers. The programme and other news will also be available on www.galwayafricanfilmfestival.com
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The Galway One World Centre is a community organisation dedicated to providing development education. Formed in 1992, it aims to challenge and inform the local community about development issues around the world and the unequal power relationships that historically and currently exist between diverse groups, both locally and globally.
The Huston School of Film & Digital Media was established in 2003 under the active patronage of the Huston family. The School offers a pioneering suite of courses with a single starting point, the role of cultural creativity. They combine the academic and the vocational, theory and practice in professional courses that focus on 'culture as central not residual'.
The Galway Film Society is one of Ireland's longest running film societies. Since its beginnings in Galway in the late 1960s, the Society now organises approximately forty film screenings per year most of which habitually receive capacity attendances of up to 350 people.
Green Party Tuam Town Council candidate, Paul Osikoya, to officiate
Galway, 18 May, 2009 - A launch party for the second annual Galway African Film Festival will be held on Monday, 18 May, from 5.30pm to 7pm, at the Galway Town Hall Theatre.
This year the African Film Festival will showcase films from all regions of Africa, and include the acclaimed Return to Goree (Youssou N'Dour traces the history of jazz), From a Whisper (Winner of five African Film Academy Awards) and Jerusalema, a blockbuster action-movie from South Africa.
The launch will be officiated by Paul Osikoya, a Green Party candidate for the local elections. Mr Osikoya, originally a Lagos based accountant, is an economics doctoral student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Mr Osikoya has also been actively involved with community groups in Galway, including the Galway One World Centre, one of the organisers of the film festival.
The Galway African film festival is being organised by the Galway One World Centre, the Galway Film Society, and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. The event, which is sponsored by Irish Aid, will be held on Sunday 31May. Detailed festival programmes will be available at the launch or from the organisers. The programme and other news will also be available on www.galwayafricanfilmfestival.com
# # #
The Galway One World Centre is a community organisation dedicated to providing development education. Formed in 1992, it aims to challenge and inform the local community about development issues around the world and the unequal power relationships that historically and currently exist between diverse groups, both locally and globally.
The Huston School of Film & Digital Media was established in 2003 under the active patronage of the Huston family. The School offers a pioneering suite of courses with a single starting point, the role of cultural creativity. They combine the academic and the vocational, theory and practice in professional courses that focus on 'culture as central not residual'.
The Galway Film Society is one of Ireland's longest running film societies. Since its beginnings in Galway in the late 1960s, the Society now organises approximately forty film screenings per year most of which habitually receive capacity attendances of up to 350 people.