In Rome, Irish Ambassador Celebrates Ireland's Cinematic Achievement

(12 Dec 08 - RV) The second annual Irish Film Festa in Rome finished yesterday on a note of success and hope for future of relations between Irish and Italian cinema. The Festa, which showed a range of both recent and older films, ran from the 8^th – 11^th of December and included opportunities to speak to some of the directors, producers and scriptwriters. The Irish Ambassador to Italy, Sean O’Huiginn, spoke about how successful the Festa was and the importance of it to Irish cinema...