Branchage Festival
2009

Jersey film festival to
screen The
Wizard of Oz in magical
drive-in cinema experience

- The Wizard of Oz
screened People’s Park Oct 3rd

- As part of
Branchage, taking place Oct
1st
–
4th

Branchage Jersey
International Film Festival is coming back to the island in
October, screening an incredible
selection of films in breathtaking

and unusual locations.

Highlights for 2009’s festival will
include a spectacular drive-in-cinema showing seminal Judy Garland classic
The Wizard Of Oz, a screening of this year’s most shocking film Lars
Von Trier’s Antichrist and
British Sea Power performing their
poignant soundtrack to the renowned 1934 fisherman film Man of Aran.

Branchage Jersey
International Film Festival has an unbeatable range of films
being screened in truly breathtaking locations, including a beautiful drive-in screening of
The Wizard Of Oz at People’s Park
on the island, a truly terrifying
screening of Antichrist in a scary
hut in the Jersey woods and an incredible performance by British Sea Power to
the classic black & white fisherman film Man of Aran.

The festival launched in 2008 as a
vibrant cross-arts film festival that transformed a number of Jersey’s well recognised landmarks and changed them into
unusual screening venues.

Venues secured for the 2009 festival
include: Mount
Orgueil Castle, Jersey Museum Cinema, The Town Hall/Magistrates Courts, The War Tunnels, Victoria College Boys School Hall, Jersey Opera House. There’ll also be screenings
inside the spectacular Barclays Wealth Spiegeltent, plus an incredible drive-in screening at People’s
Park.

Branchage
aims to create new cinema-going
experiences by holding screenings at
unusual, atmospheric locations -
bringing people into environments they wouldn't usually associate with
film, and hand-picking the perfect
films to screen in these breathtaking locations.

The festival is also giving a total
of £10,000 in awards for
filmmakers, across a range of
categories.

Festival director Xanthe Hamilton said: “Rolling off the success of the first year Branchage
is back in 2009 with even more gusto. This year we have really honed our
programming style, and with even more
unusual venues we will be taking films into fitting and interesting
spaces, offering our audiences a
whole new cinema experience.

“The film
programme is vast and diverse, and
this year we have a very strong educational and industry strand and in true
Branchage style a heavy helping of live music and party madness. This year we
are proud to be inviting several filmmakers from around the world to present
their films in Jersey, and we are
exited about our new partnerships
with the US based True/False Documentary Film Festival and a radio show coming
live out of the festival on air in New Jersey and New
York.”