I stumbled across Smallman: The World My Father Made while doing research for another post. I pressed play because it was a short film about my friend’s father. I know Richard Mark Rawlins as an artist. He’s also a great illustrator, and I am a big fan of his work. As an aside, whenever he…
The Africa World Film Festival started today. Screenings will be held at UWI’s Film School in St. Augustine, and at the Caribbean Traveling Film School on Gordon Street in Port of Spain. This is the 10 year anniversary of the film festival, so they’re doing a retrospective. Yesterday, I spoke to Festival Coordinator Wayne Cezair…
Affair in Trinidad was the 1952 comeback vehicle for the Hollywood sex symbol and actress Rita Hayworth. She had spent 4 years away from the big screen because of her marriage to Prince Ali Khan. But when that marriage ended Hayworth needed to make her return in a big way. Affair in Trinidad is a…
The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival tries to showcase Trinbagonian and Caribbean films outside of the traditional festival period. Their Carnival Film Series (to diffrentiate it from its main festival) has been going on for a few years now. This year they decided to take a look back. The Film Series will feature 3 feature…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyeuMVM6v5c?rel=0&w=560&h=315] I got to see this documentary last year during TTFF16. I don’t know why I forgot to write about it, because I loved their access to, and use of archive footage. The Sir George Williams Affair of 1969 was an early per-cursor to the Black Power Uprising in 1970. Many of the students…
November 17th 6:30PM Philippa’s Garden Tickets $75 Festival Launch & Cocktail Reception Afro-diasporic Linkages and the Caribbean Voyage Art Exhibition Opening CFAFF Special Selection – Boys of Soweto (4 mins) CFAFF Official Selection -Destination Runway (21 mins) November 18th 9:30AM Arima Tennis Club (Secondary School Students) Afro-diasporic Linkages and the Caribbean Voyage Student Art Exhibition…
‘We returned to the scene of the crime so to speak, as our investigation into drug trafficking between both countries began back in 2009″. Garth St. Clair, co-host of the award-winning radio show Eye on Dependency was speaking about the recent private screenings of the local film Trafficked in London. Garth and his wife and…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC8RCj8zgmU?rel=0] Details can be found here.
Film is having a moment in Trinidad and Tobago. The CFAFF is another film festival on the local calendar. This year’s theme is “Afro-diasporic Linkages and the Caribbean Voyage”. “A movement, a discourse, a space, a channel for cultural transformation and expression; the African Diaspora is a collective consciousness. As we continue our journey into…