Filmmaker Hits High Note With His Canadian Film

By HELEN HUNT

A YOUNG Liverpool moviemaker who was sent on an international exchange has finished his film.

Jerome Mangaroo, 24, from Toxteth, flew to Canada to make a film about Quebec.

T he Portraits Croises (Portraits Crusaders) project was set up to celebrate Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year and Quebec’s 400th anniversary, and saw students make a film about each other’s cities.

Canadians Marie-Christine Lance and Eric Deschenes came over from Quebec to film here, while Jerome was sent across the Atlantic.

Jerome’s film is nowat the post-production stage and he is looking forward to its screening later in the year.

He said: “It was amazing. It was an experience Iwill never forget.”

Jerome spent four weeks observing life in Quebec and eventually decided tomake his film about a violinmaker called Simon Bruneau because, to him, his work summed up the city’smusical nature.

Jerome said: “I made the film about the violin maker because the city is very musical and I wanted to show the city through its people.”

Toxteth TV teamed up with Quebec’s Institut National de l’Image et Du Son (INIS) to provide the exchange.

They had support from a number of organisations, including Liverpool’s Culture Company, National Museums Liverpool, the Quebec Film Commission, the CanadianHigh Commission and the British Council in Canada.

Edward Connole, from Toxteth TV, said: “This is a unique project.

“We are proud to be a part of it.”

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