The Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) is the largest film festival in England outside London. Held in November at various venues throughout Leeds, West Yorkshire it shows over 200 films from around the world, commercial and independent.
The festival office is in Leeds Town Hall, and the director of the festival is Chris Fell. Debbie Maturi is the director of the Leeds Young People's Film Festival (LYPFF) (formerly Leeds Children & Young People's Film Festival (LCYPFF)), another successful event which had its 9th year in March/April 2008.
Each year, beginning in 2001, the festival has played host to the Night of the Dead, an all-night horror-thon beginning at midnight, usually on the second Saturday of November.
LIFF has shown premieres of big blockbuster movies like The Butterfly Effect, Finding Nemo, Finding Neverland, Baghban to name but a few.
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