Usually if you want to go to a movie’s European premiere, you would have to travel to Cannes, or at least to London’s Leicester Square.

But this September, Boughton Monchelsea Village Hall is to hold the first European screening of Brennan, a new film by David Leo Schultz.

So far the film which went on release in America in February has not been shown outside the States, but Boughton Monchelsea resident Cheryl Price contacted the distributors and asked for a copy to show in her home village.

Mrs Price said: “The film is all about the author Brennan Manning. I’ve read a lot of his books and really enjoyed them, so I’m sure the film will be really interesting.”

Brennan Manning was born in 1934 and died just three years ago. A one-time alcoholic and a veteran of the Korean War, he is variously described as a vagabond, author and priest.

He wrote dozens of inspirational books describing how he found Christ while living and working among society’s sub-strata.

Among his best known works are The Ragamuffin Gospel and Abba’s Child.

The film centres on his struggle as an alcoholic ex-priest stuck on America’s gulf coast during a storm, who has to rely on the help of a tramp to get home to New York to save his marriage.

It is follow-up to the 2014 film Ragamuffin, by the same director.

Mrs Price is a member of the Junction Church, an out-reach group from Boughton Monchelsea’s St Peter’s Church. They are presenting the film on Saturday, September 10, at 7.30pm in the hall in Church Street.

Admission will cost £8 with tickets ordered online at www.colorgreenfilms.com/theaters

The website gives details of the venues across America where the film is currently showing: they include Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Wichita, Kansas; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Chicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; St Louis, Missouri, followed by “Maidstone, United Kingdom.”