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The 2009 Northern Lights Film Festival will take place from Thursday 19th - Thursday 26th November, for more information contact Jill Hargreaves


Latest News

NLFF 2008 Awards - Fri, 9 Jan 2009

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Northern Lights Film Festival 08 Awards!

South Shields born brothers win UK's biggest award for film - Sun, 7 Dec 2008

David and Keith Lynch, two film-making brothers born in South Shields, were amongst the team who won £250,000 this week-end at 'The Big Pitch' dubbed "the X-Factor of Film" - an innovative Skillset supported competitive training programme - that attracted over 200 applications from the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming filmmakers when it was launched as part of Northern Lights Film Festival 2007.

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Latest Blog Posts

Deola Folarin - The Concrete Cat - Fri, 20 Mar 2009

I entered my 3 page outline into a competition for the Northern Lights Film Festival Development Award for a feature film I have been longing to write, called the Concrete Cat.

NLFF 2008 - perfect meeting ground for projects! - Wed, 11 Mar 2009

During NLFF 08, 25 directors and producers were invited to introduce or take questions on their work throughout the 7 day festival.

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