Five Thousand Stars

Winner of The Pitch 2020, Five Thousand Stars follows Joyce, a once renowned food critic, now struggling with alcoholism and homelessness. Award-winning Bristol-based filmmaker Paul Holbrook shot the film in 2022 with Reel Issues Films producer Luke Walton and Jackie Sheppard of Footprint Films.

Guided by a mysterious chef, a once renowned food critic, now struggling with alcoholism and homelessness campaigns for her local soup kitchen to be saved, despite it being her complaint that shut it down in the first place. 

The biblical source comes from Matthew 14:13-21 - Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand 

"I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way." So, Jesus took five loaves and the two fish and looking up to Heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. There was enough food for everyone, they all ate and were satisfied.