How can we support filmmakers?
With a recorded introduction from Lord David Puttnam
In 2025, we held a collaborative session at the festival, examining the conditions for creating a vibrant and sustainable film and audio-visual industry in Jersey. We heard from industry experts and from those with examples of success in other territories.
We now revisit and develop this question, this time asking Jersey filmmakers (and those from related disciplines) what conditions would help them to realise their creative dreams here in Jersey.
How can stakeholders create a vibrant and supportive environment that will help to develop a thriving film industry in Jersey? How can policymakers and those in positions of power help? How do we embrace Bergerac and also develop local talent, be it at home or currently living abroad?
We will hear from Jersey filmmakers and artists; those currently working here and Jersey filmmakers returning home, visiting the festival with their new films. We put this question in advance to Lord David Puttnam, renowned British film producer, educator and environmentalist.
Moderator: Steve Carter
Panel includes:
Philip Clyde-Smith, Director of A Hand to Hold
Rebecca Coley, Director of Quicksand
Lottie Graham, Director of Latcho Drom (Good Road)
Annigna Kennedy, Co-Director of À Bétôt?
Jonny Labey, Director of Swirl State
Karen Le Roy Harris, The Moving Arts Collective
David’s films have won 10 Oscars, 10 Golden Globes, 25 BAFTAs, nine Emmys, and the Palme D’or at Cannes. Most recently, he sat on the Select Committee for the Environment and Climate Change. He spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Local Hero. He is Chair of Atticus Education.
