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The INL News Group is working in your interests at
the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in three main areas:

1. The INL News Group is looking for acts to film live and turn into films.
At previous Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh and Dublin the INL News
Group have made films from a number of shows, such as:

Attempt 3.4: 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Dirty Beat Up Yanks: 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The Racket: 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
My Space the Musical: 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Sister She: 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Molly Bloom: 2007 Dublin Fringe Festival;
Mobile: 2007 Dublin Fringe Festival

Till Something Better Comes Along: 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Bonnie From Brighton: 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Women With Standards: 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival

2. The INL News Group will be holding party review nights in a central
venue where the fringe shows and their crews can meet each other, make
valuable contacts for the future in the industry and have the
opportunity to put on a five minute preview of their show and have a
great time mixing with other people in the industry. These party
nights will be filmed and also will be shown as live streaming on the
world wide web and the 5 minute previews will be made into video clips
and placed on the world wide web on one or more of the INL News
Group's associated publications which will become great advertising

for the shows that have performed the five minute previews of their individual show.
3. The INL News Group is also involved with helping to sponsor the New York International Theatre, Music, Film and Arts Festival (commonly known as the NYITFest) which was started in a small way last year and the INL News Group hopes the NYITFest will grow into an interesting and exciting way for acts that received great reviews from fringe festivals around the world, to be selected each year to perform their show at the NYITFest, which will be held in February/March each year in New York City. The INL News Group and the various world media groups they are associated with, will be on the lookout at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival for shows that they feel are worthy of
selection for the NYITFest each year.

4. The INL News Group is involved with sponsoring music, theatre, arts, dance, films, festivals etc, all around the world and are always on the lookout for entertaining shows that have the potential to be promoted to a world-wide audience, having being discovered at one of the fringe festivals that are held around the world each year, such as the very popular Edinburgh, Dublin, New York and Australian Fringe Festivals, to name a few, that the INL News Group are involved with reviewing.

Anyone associated with the organisation of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe
Festival and/or any of the fringe shows should email the INL News
Group on an urgent basis if:

(a) you are interested in having your show reviewed by INL News
Group and/or one of its associated publications; and/or

(b) you are interested in being involved in any small, medium or
large way in assisting and/or sponsoring any of the above activities
such as- turning fringe plays into films- the party preview nights-
the NYIT Fest; and/or

(c) you are interested in attending any of the party preview nights; and/or

(d) you are interested in performing a five minute section of your
fringe show at the party preview nights which will be shown on the
world wide web as an excellent promotion tool for your show.

Also let us know if you want to be involved in any other way with any
of the above projects, even if it is just moral support and/or
physical help with any of the above in any way. You may have a skill
that may be very
helpful and/or just may want to become involved in some way. Also
please contact us if you have any other ideas you wold like the INL
News Group to develop with you and/or your organisation.
The INL News Group is dedicated to help promote and support, new and
up and coming artists, writers, directors, actors, actresses, dancers,
singers, producers, film makers, photographers etc, that are involved
in
the theatre, arts, music, films, festivals and entertainment industry
in any way possible. So do not hesitate to email us about any ideas
you want to discuss with the INL News Group.

In particular the INL News Group are involved with sponsoring some
proposed preview party nights to be held in Edinburgh just before and
during the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which are proposed to start
on Sunday the 27th July, 2008.

The INL News Group invites expressions of interest from anyone
associated with the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe and/or are involved in any
way in putting on a show at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe, that are keen
to be placed on the invite list to attend these preview party nights,
and/or are wanting to be selected to perform a five minute section of
their show, that will be filmed and shown on the world wide web along
with the actual fun and excitement had by all at the preview parties
night. The whole of the review party nights will be filmed and clips
of the party and the five minute preview performances will be placed
on the world-wide web as permanent promotional clips for these fringe
shows, as well as a selection of the night will be broadcast live as
it happens on the world wide web.
Please note that there is a great interest shown on the world wide web
in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, now considered the largest Arts
Festival in the world, with over 100 million hits in 2007 on the
various web sites associated with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The INL News Group is excited and proud to announce the appointment
of Lindsay Michie, an entertainment consultant, who have been
associated with the INL News Group for the past three years, as the
INL News Group's International Entertainment, Music, Theatre and Film
Consultant. Lindsay Michie will be in charge of organising the reviews
of all the acts at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in charge of
the preview party nights to be held the week prior to the official
start of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and during the 2008
Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The INL News Edinburgh Fringe Grand Finale
Party, which will be one almighty finale party to end the 2008
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, will be held on Sunday the 24th August,
2008, at the Base Night Club in the Cowgate, which is situated in the
heart of Edinburgh's night life scene, where the yearly 2008 USA
Weekly News 100 Star Awards, which are sponsored by the INL News
Group, will be announced.
Love-Laburs-Won is the only Edinburgh Fringe Show that has been
awarded a USA Weekly News 100 Star Award two years running.
Love-Laburs-Won was the Rogue Shakespeare Company's first Edinburgh
Fringe production in 2006 ...written and acted by RYAN J-W SMITH and
was described by the editor of the USA Weekly News, as TRENDY
SHAKESPEARE.
Other fringe shows that received a USA Weekly News 100 Star Award at
the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe were:
The Racket-Play, Das Contras- Band, Beat Up "Dirty Yanks"-Comedy;
Showcase of San Franciso's Top Variety Performers; Jason John
Whitehead-Comedy; Aska-Japanese Drum Troop; Attempt 3.4-Present
Attempt-Play; Apocryphal Tales Told In The Dark-Play ; Red State-Play;
Kim Edgar-Singer, Love Labours Won-Play (for the second year running).
The Angel and the Woodcutter; A Day in Dig Day Nation and Extropia
from the Flying Carpet Theatre.

PLEASE NOTE THAT TICKETS AND THE NUMBER OF PREVIEW PERFORMANCES FOR
THE PARTY PREVIEW NIGHTS IS STRICTLY LIMITED.

THERE IS ONLY A MAXIMUM OF 300 PEOPLE WHO CAN ATTEND EACH PREVIEW
NIGHT, AND THERE WILL BE A MAXIMUM OF 30 PREVIEW SPOTS (five minutes
maximun) AVAILBLE FOR FRINGE SHOWS PER PARTY PREVIEW NIGHT.

SO THE QUICKER YOU PROVIDE YOUR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO EITHER
(a) JUST TO ATTEND ANY OF THE PARTY PREVIEW NIGHTS TO ENJOY THE FUN
AND SEE A SELECTION OF PREVIEWS FROM SOME OF THE OVER 2,000 GREAT
SHOWS THAT ARE BEING PERFORMED AT THE 2008 EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL,
AND/OR

(b) WANT TO PERFORM A FIVE MINUTE PREVIEW OF YOUR FRINGE SHOW,

THE BETTER CHANCE YOU HAVE OF BEING ABLE TO OBTAIN A TICKET AND/OR
HAVE A CHANCE TO BE SELECTED TO PERFORM A FIVE MINUTE PREVIEW OF YOUR
FRINGE SHOW.

THE INL NEWS GROUP LOOKS FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.
                 Email: admin@inlnews.biz
   Atsushi Shibata
   Managing Director of the INL News Group

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February/March 2008
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Film tackles IRA leader Bobby Sands hunger strike

By Mike Collett-White

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The director of a powerful film about the final days of Bobby Sands said he had not made a hero of the IRA prisoner whose death in a 1981 hunger strike made him one of the most prominent symbols of opposition to British rule in Northern Ireland.

"Hunger", the graphic, often brutal feature debut by British artist Steve McQueen, screened at the Cannes film festival late on Thursday and has impressed critics with its portrayal of the violence and horror of life in the notorious Maze prison.

Some predicted that the film would prove controversial because of what they saw as McQueen's sympathetic treatment of Sands, played by Irish actor Michael Fassbender.

"The sympathetic portrait within this excellent film will cause much debate, and outrage," wrote the Independent newspaper.

McQueen said the only controversy surrounding "Hunger" was one created by the media.

"If anyone comes out of there thinking that I'm thinking that Bobby Sands is a martyr should basically watch the film again and look and listen," he told Reuters in an interview.

Sands, convicted of firearms offences, was elected as a Westminster MP during his hunger strike, ensuring worldwide media coverage of his death. His image still looks down from a giant mural on Belfast's Falls Road.

"In 'Hunger' there is no simplistic notion of 'hero' or 'martyr' or 'victim'," McQueen adds in production notes.

He said the film also portrays other inmates and a prison guard who is shot dead by the IRA. In a long, central scene, Sands debates the morality of the hunger strike with a priest.

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McQueen, who has won the Turner art prize, drew parallels between abuses by authorities in the Maze prison and the treatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.

"The fact of the matter is that history does repeat itself," said McQueen, who first conceived the idea of making a film about Sands before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The latter part of "Hunger" portrays what Sands went through during his 66-day hunger strike that resulted in his death, aged 27, in 1981.

Close-ups of bed sores and his decaying body are as difficult to watch as earlier scenes of cell walls smeared in faeces and ritual beatings of inmates by riot police.

Fassbender lost around 15 kg through a strict diet of nuts, berries and sardines for weeks.

He said he was nervous playing such a controversial figure from Northern Ireland's recent past.

"It worries me very much," he told Reuters. "It worried me when I decided to do the project because all my relatives are up there," added Fassbender, who is from the Republic of Ireland but whose mother comes from the partitioned North.

"The last thing I want to do is be part of something that sparks up aggression," he said.

A 1998 peace agreement largely ended 30 years of violence in the province. The conflict killed more than 3,600 people.

Sands was the first of 10 Maze prisoners to die in the hunger strike, which they staged in order to win IRA prisoners political status.

Hundreds of prisoners had refused to wear prison clothing and used only blankets in what became known as the "dirty protest" because they smeared excrement on their cell walls.

(Editing by Paul Hoskins and Paul Casciato)

(To read more about our entertainment news, visit our blog "Fan Fare" online at blogs.reuters.com/fanfare)

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