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.
The Christmas Tree (novel) The Christmas Tree is Irish author Jennifer Johnston's sixth novel, first published in 1981 by Hamish Hamilton. It has been suggested by "The Irish Times" as being her finest work, and was chosen by the "Irish Independent" to be published as one of the books its "Irish Women Writers" collection. It is one of U.S. writer Lionel Shriver's favourite books and was adapted for television in 1986.