AN INTERNATIONAL group of film experts and industry insiders, including an artist who has worked with Disney, will make up the jury of a Bradford film festival.

The Drunken Film Festival will be held in bars, cafes and other venues across the city centre over ten days in July.

A showcase for short films, there have been submissions from filmmakers across the world, from Iran to Myanmar.

The panel that will decide the winners has now been chosen, and includes Mike Gizienski, a Los Angeles-based illustrator who has worked with Universal Pictures and Walt Disney Imagineering; Manon De Reeper from Australia, Editor in Chief of Film Inquiry; and Leo Garcia, an award winning Brazilian filmmaker.

Representing Bradford on the panel are David Wilson, director of Bradford City of Film, and Karen Scott, who works in the School of Media, Design and Technology at the University of Bradford.

The other judges are Los Angeles-based filmmaker Hawke Hamilton and animator Maggie Kraisamutr, and Argentinian art director Adrian Cordoni.

The majority of the panel will view the films remotely online, while the films will be screened at venues like The Record Cafe, Bradford Brewery and the Peace Museum.

Filmmakers from over 60 countries have submitted their work to the festival. Some of the places submissions have come from are North Korea, Uzbekistan and Syria, as well as the USA, Mexico and New Zealand.

The festival is organised by US-born filmmaker Jax Griffin. This year’s event will begin with a screening of Holy Terrors, by Bradford filmmakers Julian Butler and Mark Goodall.

Mrs Griffin said: “A few of the the filmmakers won’t be able to make the festival, but that is the beauty of the age we live in; they can watch the films online from wherever they are.

“For the people who have their films shown it is great exposure to the film industry.”

Other venues that will host film screenings are Assembly on Rawson Place, the Theatre in the Mill at the University of Bradford, The Peacock on North Parade, the Beehive, one of Bradford’s oldest pubs, and the Deluis Arts Centre and Brewhaus. The festival will once again be run in partnership with Bradford City of Film.

For more information visit drunkenfilmfest.com.