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Sarah Miles and Robert Mitchum in a scene from Ryan’s Daughter.
SARAH Miles will be welcomed back to Dingle on St. Patrick’s Day, where she will officially open the Dingle International Film Festival with a screening of Ryan’s Daughter.
The English actress who starred in the 1970 David Lean-directed classic, will open an event which welcomes celebrity guests and 170 screenings.
“Sarah opened the very first film festival, so it is more than fitting that she returns to celebrate our 10th birthday with us. ‘Ryan’s Daughter’, set in the wake of the Easter Rising, is the perfect film to celebrate Ireland’s centenary and who better than Sarah to be here with the film” said Director and founder of the festival, Maurice Galway.
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Sarah will also be present for a Q&A with the audience after the film, which screens in the Phoenix Cinema with an opening reception by Dingle Distillery at 6.30pm on St. Patrick’s Day.
The festival welcomes to Dingle an exceptional line up of industry and celebrity guests. The fourth annual Animation Dingle festival, which takes place on Friday, March 18th and Saturday, March 19th, is proud to announce this year that it will have two very special keynote speakers in Tara Sorensen, Head of Kids Programming at Amazon Studios, and David Levine, General Manager, Disney Channels UK & Ireland.
Other notable participants include Oscar winner Patrick Osborne, head storyboard artist, Christian de Vita (Fantastic Mr. Fox), Cécile Blondel from Gobelins in Paris, Sheila de Courcy & Pauline McNamara from RTE, Jackie Edwards & Lucy Pryke from CBBC, and Alexi Wheeler from Nickelodeon.
Cathy Beldon, known from Red Rock on our TV screens at the moment and films ‘Philomena’ and ‘A Little Chaos’ will be around. Peter O’Meara known from ‘Love/Hate’ and ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ will also be seen on the streets of Dingle over St. Patrick’s Weekend.
There will be over 170 films from right across the globe and a packed programme of activities, including many animated films suitable for kids. Go to www.dinglefilmfestival.com and www.animationdingle.com for more details.
