Mid Ulster Film Festival
The Mid Ulster Film Festival was an international film festival, established in 2004 by Mary Mullin and Roisin Nevin. Hugh Mullin and Geoffrey Sproule, film co-ordinator and technician, joined in 2005. The festival was cancelled in 2010 due to a lack of funding needed to run the event. The Fourth festival took place in An Creagán Visitor Centre near Omagh, on 4-6 May 2007, with the European premiere of Proud opening the festival. It included The Last King of Scotland and closed with a showing of Bobby. In the following year, the Film Festival was again held in An Creagán on 2-4 May 2008 and included feature films and over 50 short films, including John, I'm Sorry, foreign-language films, documentaries, workshops and seminars. The Sixth Annual Mid Ulster Film Festival took place on 1–3 May 2009. In all, over 80 films were shown over the course of the weekend. To accommodate these showings there was a total of four studios, three studios inside the main building at The Ulster His-tory Park, and The Cinemobile, a large custom-made truck housing a complete cinema with capacity for over 100 people. The 2010 Mid Ulster Film Festival was scheduled for 7-9 May 2010. but was cancelled due to lack of funding. Mid Ulster Film Festival website