First Ulster Festival Screening of 'Route Irish' : Mid Ulster Film Festival

tyrone | arts and media | event notice Saturday April 19, 2008 17:19 by ec

Route Irish has been selected for inclusion in the Mid-Ulster Film Festival. Details of the festival are here: http://www.midulsterfilmfestival.com/muff/Welcome*.html

The film will be screened on Sunday 4th May at 1.30. Details here: http://www.midulsterfilmfestival.com/muff/Documentaries*/Entries/2008/5/4_Route_Irish.html

The director of the film will be introducing the screening and will be available to take questions and discuss the issues raised in the film afterwards.

Google Map to Venue which is Outside Omagh at foot of Sperrin Mountains: http://www.midulsterfilmfestival.com/muff/Google_Map.html

About the film: It may surprise many that a majority of US Troops travel through Ireland on the way to Iraq - in spite of Ireland's own constitution and tradition of neutrality and non-alignment.

This 'Revolt ' film documents the emergence of the Irish antiwar movement between 2002 and 2006 and of the broad popular opposition to the US military use of Ireland's civilian Shannon Airport in the build-up to, invasion of, and occupation of Iraq.

The documentary follows a loose network of activist groups, individuals and politicians through the story of the rise, fracturing, sudden decline and then disappearance of this movement and then retraces the way in which their combined efforts, energies and strategies served to effectively tear away the Republic of Ireland's veneer of neutrality and non-alignment in the post September 11th era of the 'War on Terror'.

Download info here if you can't make the screening: http://www.indymedia.ie/route_irish_documentary