Hard luck to the makers of the excellent short film, Dance, Lexie, Dance, which lost out on Oscar night this week. The film was about a Protestant girl who wants to be a Riverdancer. She overcomes the initial reluctance of her widowed father and, with his help, she dances in the Feis in Derry's Guildhall.

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