Hastings fishermen to feature in new locally made BBC film

Filmmakers Chloe White and Will Davies, based in Hastings, will produce a short film Bold Fisherman looking at how the local fishermen in Hastings are adapting to the current crisis.

The film will be made entirely observing social distance, consisting mostly of footage from cameras rigged on a fishing boat.

Bold Fisherman is an immersive and poetic short six-minute documentary taking as its inspiration, the traditional Sussex folk song Bold Fisherman and taking as its lead characters, the local fishermen of Hastings who are determined to continue to fish for their community.

Chloe White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer and director of Whalebone Films based in Hastings. She frequently travels around the world to collect stories and images.

In total, 25 projects have been selected from across England.

These pieces will be exhibited through broadcast slots across BBC Radio 3 and BBC TV, through podcasts on BBC Sounds, and through the BBC Arts website continuing with the Culture in Quarantine mission to bring the arts to UK homes despite arts venue closures, social distancing, and UK-wide lockdowns.Chloe commented: “This will be a Hastings film through and through. It will be going online, hopefully at some time this month.”

For more visit www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/culture-in-quarantine-commissions.