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Film Festival Features Islanders

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By Kang Shin-who

Staff Reporter

A total of 17 documentary films from nine countries have been screened to share the lives of islanders during the ``1st World Islands Film Festival’’ in Jeju Island between Aug. 23 through 28. Peace Island School plans to hold the film festival every year and expand the scale of the event, screening up to 76 films from 37 countries in 2009.

Ray Burnett, program director of the film festival said he focused on natural and