The feature length documentary captures the stories and voices of people who still speak Jèrriais.
Spink said the stories in the film would always stay with him: “They told us about how they were beaten in school for speaking the language.
“They told us about how they were discouraged from ever using it, from teaching it to their children,” he said.
He added the film, external explored how the language is still part of island life.
“A lot of our folklore is written only in Jèrriais,” he explained.
“So if there’s nobody who understands the language, nobody who speaks it, we lose the sense of what those things mean and we lose part of our island’s story.”
He described Jèrriais as “fundamental” to Jersey’s identity.
“Without Jèrriais, Jersey would be indistinguishable from another part of Britain. We do have our beautiful landscapes and unique population, but in many ways it would be harder to recognise Jersey as different without the language”.
