'Origins of Halloween' Film for International Babel Festival in Italy

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A film about the origins of Ireland's biggest Halloween Carnival has
has been selected for the Babel Festival in Sardinia, Italy in early December.
Babel is an international film festival promoting 'minority languages'.

The festival director believes they "are more oriented to a poetic
vision of the world and are closer to the life of communities, the
frame that makes life worth living day after day".

The European Parliament is a patron of the festival.

In this year's programme, languages range from Cree, Innu and Kurdish to
Sámi, Swahili and Yazidi, including European languages like Basque,
Welsh,Catalan, Ladin and Sardu.

The only other Irish film in the festival, Rúbaí, has already won Best Short
Drama awards at festivals.
Festival is at: http://www.babelfilmfestival.com/programma-2015
The film, Spiorad na Samhna -- Spirit of Samhain, is on Vimeo at:
https://vimeo.com/101398600

Film traces origins of Ireland's biggest Halloween Carnival in Derry back
to troubled years of 1980s. Film uses footage from spectacular 2013
Inferno show, produced by LUXe, based in Donegal.

It also traces origins of Halloween  to the Celtic festival of Samhain.
Dr. Jenny Butler from the Folklore Department of University College,
Cork narrates this strand.