Programme Launch of 4th Edition at The Garden Cafe
We had a wonderful launch for the Dingle Film Festival 2010, 4th Edition, at The Garden Cafe last night. 80 guests including sponsors, artists, journalists, venue owners, volunteers and audience members thronged the cafe. Each received a complementary Programme while Sheila Egan provided free coffee, tea and scrumptious cakes. David and Nigel dressed as "mobsters" complete with spats, trailing our "fancy dress feature", Jimmy Cagney in "The Public Enemy". After the food and drink Maurice Galway opened proceedings with a speech outlining the programme and thanked all those who have supported the festival in cash, kind and effort. He introduced Philip King who formally opened the Programme Launch with an impassioned speech about the role of filmic arts in our cultural life. Dingle now offers a "string of pearls" of cultural events through the year and, through the beauty of the place and personality of its people, is able to attract the very best of national and international talent without destroying its essence.
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