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Mon 07 Jul 2007The old films and the seaGoing to the Tory Island Maritime Film Festival means leaving the mainland behind, in more ways than one, writes Catherine Foley.Tory Island's third maritime film festival is ready to rock: the ferry at Magheroarty Pier will be running extra trips; a campsite on the island is marked out to cater for the extra visitors; fishermen are bringing home twice as many boxes of fish; bottles of organic wine have been delivered for the opening gala buffet; and the primary school and community hall have been decked out to double as screening venues for the duration of the affair.