L.A. Irish Film Fest sets premieres

August 18, 2009 Stories from Home and The Secret of Kells will receive U.S. premieres at the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 23-27 at the Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood and the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. The festival will close with a tribute to Irish playwright Hugh Leonard, who died in Dublin in February, with a screening of "DA," the classic film based on his Tony-award winning, semi-autobiographical stage play. Stories from Home, a documentary by Pat Collins about actor Gabriel Byrne; Vittoria Colonna Di Stigliano's Identities, about Ireland's transgender community, and the animated film, The Secret of Kells, directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey.

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