While the Lighthouse International Film Festival features filmmakers from all over the world, Friday night’s screening of David Scott Kessler’s “The Pine Barrens” celebrates the true locals of South Jersey in an award-winning feature documentary.

Kessler affectionately calls “The Pine Barrens” an epic tone-poem. It illustrates the beautiful contradiction embodied by a million acres of sheer wilderness – in fact, the largest tract of preserved land between Maine and Florida – hidden in the midst…