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Oldies will be on the menu this August for the 24th Jersey Film Festival. This year's line up includes five box office hits from the 70's and 80's, as well as the more recent "The Greatest Showman."
Organised by Deputy Kevin Lewis and his wife Isabella, the Festival will take place between 4 and 9 August al fresco in Howard Davis Park.
All movies are sponsored and shown for free. A retiring collection is done after each screening to support various charities.
The festival will kick off on 4 August with John Hughes's classic, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," in support of Look Good Feel Better.
Action and romance will follow with "Top Gun" on 5 August. The Tony Scott directed blockbuster which saw Tom Cruise rise to international fame will aim to raise funds for Brighter Futures.
"The Greatest Showman," which is loosely based on the life of Phineas Taylor Barnum, founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, comes next on 6 August. The evening proceeds will go towards the NSPCC.
Video: 'The Greatest Showman' stars Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron and Zendaya among others.
Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" will bring some sci-fi vibes to the line-up while raising funds for Jersey Hospice Care.
Summer nights happen so fast and 'Grease' will be the second to last movie this year. Shown on 8 August, the hit musical that saw many crave leather jackets and pink bombers will raise funds for Autism Jersey.
The festival will finish on an animated note with 'Peter Rabbit.' Based on the books by Beatrix Potter, the family movie sees James Corden, Margot Robbie and Daisy Ridley voice Peter Rabbit, Flopsy and Cotton Tail, as wreak havoc in their neighbour's vegetable garden.
Pictured: The Festival was started in 1994 when it was set up at the old Bel Vue go kart track in St. Brelade.
Started in 1994 by Kevin Lewis, a fan of the American drive-in cinema who was then running the Ciné de France cinema at the Hotel de France with his wife, the festival was first set up at the old Bel Vue go kart track in St. Brelade. It then moved to Howard Davis Park where it has seen up to 3,500 movie enthusiasts sit back on the grass to watch the big screen.
Deputy Lewis said: "It has always been our policy to have a free film festival with a retiring collection for local charities. We erect the giant screen on the bandstand and park the projection van on the lawn. We show only family films with many families bringing a picnic and a rug enjoying their favourite films under the stars.
"We show films such as a good James Bond or adventure film, it is amazing to stand on the stage in front of the screen to introduce the film to have three and a half thousand people looking back at you. When the film finishes the audience burst into spontaneous applause and on leaving the park everyone puts a few pounds in the bucket."
This year, all being well said Deputy Lewis, the festival hopes to transmit the sound so that people with hearing loss or sitting far away from the screen can still hear the dialogues.
All the films start at 20:30 each evening, but the park is open for people to have picnics on the grass beforehand.
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