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Galway-based filmmaker and media strategist Pam Finn has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the City of Angels Film Festival in Los Angeles. The international festival, which celebrates bold independent storytelling, counts Joanna Lumley among its distinguished patrons.

Galway-based filmmaker and media strategist Pam Finn has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the City of Angels Film Festival in Los Angeles. The international festival, which celebrates bold independent storytelling, counts Joanna Lumley among its distinguished patrons.

The Irish feature film Learning to Breathe Under Water, filmed in Galway last September and co-produced by Galway-based production company Éiru Films, has been officially selected for the prestigious Great 8 Showcase at this week's Cannes Film Festival.

The 36th Galway Film Fleadh, running from July 9-14 at the Town Hall Theatre and Pálás Cinema, will spotlight Palestinian cinema in its Country of Focus strand. Among the standout events is the Irish premiere of “To a Land Unknown,” which will close the festival on July 14.

Every now and again, something crops up on the rich cultural scene Galway is home to, and it makes you think: wow. Generation Fleadh, which runs for four days from Monday, 13 November, definitely wows.

A documentary chronicling US president John F Kennedy’s momentous visit to Galway in 1963 will feature at upcoming film festivals in Dublin and Cannes.

Sometime before 1905, John Bagnell Bury, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, and already one of the most distinguished historians of his time, turned his attentions to St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.