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OYSTER LAND film screening

  • Saturday 26 October 2024
  • 7pm
  • 74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE

Get tickets to the Colchester premiere of Oyster Land - an atmospheric documentary about the oyster farmers of Mersea Island, Esssex. Filmmaker Matthew John Harrison will be joined by poet Martin Newell, musician Matthew Simpkins and Oysterman Dale Belbin for a Q&A at the end of the screening, as well as live music and poetry before the film.

Film Synopsis:

Oyster Land is a film that spends time with the oystermen of Mersea Island, Essex and explores the ancient oyster culture of the city of Colchester. It's an atmospheric journey of working on the waters of an estuary that has sustained a local trade for thousands of years.