A locally inspired folk-horror film is searching for Jersey-based talent, volunteers and sponsors to help its creators bring the project to the big screen.
Bread, written and directed by local filmmaker Andy Lowe, is set in 1897 and follows two men in an isolated wilderness who are driven to violence over a single piece of bread.
Mr Lowe was among the creatives to secure financial support from ArtHouse Jersey in the charity’s second round of development grants for 2026.
He hopes to use Jersey’s landscape as the backdrop for the film while capturing a more mysterious and unexplored side of the Island.
“I wanted the location to feel that these characters have entered somewhere ancient, somewhere unknown,” he told Express.
The production team is now developing the film’s visual style, expanding its cast, securing locations, building costumes and props, working with a composer and assembling the wider crew.
Mr Lowe is seeking “local volunteers and in particular sponsors who might be able to contribute things such as catering, wardrobe, makeup, props, set dressing, equipment or financial support”.
At the heart of the project is an ambition to showcase the Channel Islands’ creative community and prove that cinematic films can be produced by the “wide variety of talent on-Island”.
Mr Lowe described ArtHouse Jersey’s support as “paramount”, saying it had enabled the team to “push the project further”.
“More importantly, the ArtHouse Jersey grant demonstrates that there is an appetite to support locally made film and filmmakers,” he added.
Mr Lowe ultimately hopes Bread will travel beyond the Island and enter film festivals across the UK, Europe and North America.
“For me, that’s the exciting part – build something in Jersey to show to the world,” he said.
