The 21st Foyle Film Festival included the Northern Ireland premiere of a movie based on a novel by whom?
Foyle Film Festival Foyle Film Festival is an annual film festival based in Derry, Northern Ireland. The 21st festival took place from 21 to 29 November 2008 and included the Northern Ireland premiere of "Brideshead Revisited" and the Irish, United Kingdom, and European premiere of Deborah Kampmeier's film "Hounddog". Other highlights included anti-nuclear campaigner Adi Roche introducing the documentary "The Children Beyond Chernobyl". The Festival included a programme of documentaries, short films and feature films from all over the world, as well as a full programme of educational events. Among the later successful filmmakers who exhibited their earliest works at the Foyle Film Festival was actor-producer Stegath James Dorr, who became the then youngest filmmaker to successfully submit a feature film with the Flint-lensed gritty youth docudrama "Dermot", exhibited at the festival in 1995. Planning is now underway for the 22nd Foyle Film Festival 2009.
Vanity Fair (2004 film) Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American historical drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, and Nair's version made notable changes in the development of main character Becky Sharp.