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A Hollywood director who has worked for studios including Netflix, Paramount, and Disney is set to feature on the programme for a local grassroots film festival.
The 13th Parish Film Festival, taking place at the Jersey Arts Centre from 23 to 26 May, aims to showcase the best of independent global and local cinema.
The line-up for this year's event includes Hollywood director John Schultz, who will be conversation with 13th Parish Art Director Steve Carter on Saturday 25 May.
Mr Schultz, known for documentaries like 'The Making of Jurassic Park' and feature films like 'Bandwagon', relocated to the island in 2021 and is currently working on a supernatural thriller inspired by Jersey legends.
Pictured: The organisers of Jersey’s grassroots film festival have revealed their full programme.
Alongside a diverse selection of contemporary short films, documentaries, and features of various genres, the festival will feature a Virtual Reality experience, public interviews with figures from the film industry, and a DIY filmmaking workshop.
Hamburg-based group 'A Wall is a Screen' is making a return visit to this year's event offering islanders the chance to spend an evening at a cinema that moves around town with its audience.
The 13th Parish Film Festival, which was launched five years ago, began with evenings of international shorts from the thought-provoking, to the funny and the thrilling, spanning a range of languages, themes, and cultural backgrounds.
Pictured: The team behind 'A Wall is a Screen' from Hamburg with Steve Carter from the 13th Parish Film Festival outside the former Odeon Cinema last year.
Jersey filmmaker Rebecca Coley, who recently won awards at festivals around the world for her surf documentary, will also partake in this year's event.
The 2024 festival will also feature two special focus short film programmes: celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese revolution, and a look at Québecois cinema.
Festival Director Tony Langlois said: "Last year's more expansive programme created a ripple of creativity and enthusiasm in the local community, and we were determined to bring back some special events."
You can read the full programme at 13thparish.org.je.
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Pictured top: Hamburg-based group 'A Wall is a Screen' staged an event in West’s Centre during last year’s festival.
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