Catch a screening and discussion of the comedy, Pastor Paul by Jules David Bartkowski at the Delightful Festival in Jamaica, Queens on Saturday, April14.

Special programming

Q&A with the filmmaker

About the Film

Pastor Paul tells the story of a white tourist in Africa who is cast to play a ghost in a Nollywood film and suddenly becomes actually possessed by a ghost. From that point on his trip to Africa takes an unexpected turn and his life slowly turns into something not unlike a Nollywood film. Framed as a Chaplin-esque fool, Benjamin wanders around cities and villages seeking the mathematical secrets buried inside African drumming, only to have his project disturbed by becoming a vessel for the spirit of a colonial-era white missionary. Suddenly he's prone to tourettic utterances, tongue-speaking bible quotes, words of his Nollywood character's namesake, Pastor Paul.
About Jules David Bartkowski

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