2011 PROGRAMME
Around the World in 90 Films
Plan your days! Explore the full film and sessions programme with prize screenings, workshops, special events. Consult the interactive map of film locations in 38 countries.
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FILM PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that the following Film Prizes have been awarded at the 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, London, 23rd - 26th June 2011.
FORMER RAI FESTIVALS
11th RAI Film Festival, 2009
CTCC, Leeds Metropolitan University
10th RAI Film Festival, 2007
GCVA, The University of Manchester
7th RAI Film Festival, 2000
SOAS, University of London
Paradiso #256
11:30 hrs, Sunday 26th June, Roberts G08
Director / Anthropologist: Alessandro Negrini
Year of Release: 2009
Duration: 60 mins
Country of Production: Northern Ireland
Location: Derry, Northern Ireland
Language: English (English sub)
Production: Besom Productions
There are plenty of ‘ghettos’ around the world. There is one condemned to something even worse, it has forgotten its music. It’s The Fountain, in the heart of the city of Derry, Northern Ireland: once a vibrant community, now a disappearing Protestant neighbourhood killed by fear and living behind a fence. Roy Arbuckle, a musical troubadour, decides to open up the MEM, once the most popular Protestant Dance Hall in town, and reunite his former Showband. He is trying to do something that would be normal anywhere else but not yet in Northern Ireland, having a major dance night and getting Protestants and their old enemies, Catholics, dancing together again. A colourful, melancholic and ironic musical journey through a ghetto that, even if it finds itself in its last dance, it doesn’t want to miss a single step of it.