Filmmaker, writer Al Bohl will appear at banquet here

Filmmaker, writer and educator Al Bohl will be the guest speaker at Saturday’s Helping Hearts Foundation Gospel banquet in Morgan City.
The banquet, which raises money to help families in Amelia, Morgan City, Berwick and Patterson with burial expenses for their loved ones, will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at the AARP building, 4014 Chennault St. A local citizen will also be honored for public service.
Bohl and daughter Allison DeHart made the feature-length documentary “Tarzan: Lord of the Louisiana Jungle” and the re-edit of the 1918 silent film classic “Tarzan of the Apes.” This first Tarzan film was made in and around Morgan City.
Bohl has lived in Bossier City for more than 60 years. For 50 years, he has worked as a professional artist, author, minister, educator, songwriter and filmmaker. He has authored 15 books and illustrated at least 50, plus many magazine covers and articles.
Bohl has shared the Gospel using black light chalk art presentations. He was inspired at age 4, when his mother described a chalk artist to him. She encouraged him to dedicate himself to God, and perhaps God would use him as a chalk artist one day.
Bohl became a Christian when he was 11.
He created and taught the “Gen4 Animation Course” in Bossier Parish public schools through the talented arts program for eight years. His students, in grades 1-12, animated nearly 1,500 short films.
In 2023, Bohl wrote, produced, directed and animated a short stop-motion animated film called “The Esteemed Priority,” which has been shown in over 70 film festivals around the world.