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…
October is Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual global campaign to increase awareness of the disease. But that was not the reason behind featuring a special animated documentary on the subject at Animae Caribe Festival this year. It just worked out like that, with an amazing spate of coincidences and a twist of fate. ‘That…
October is Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual global campaign to increase awareness of the disease. But that was not the reason behind featuring a special animated documentary on the subject at Animae Caribe Festival this year. It just worked out like that, with an amazing spate of coincidences and a twist of fate. ‘That…
The festival will launch with The Pearl Button, a film by Patricio Guzman. But I’m really excited by the local films that will be included on the schedule. Details on those films in an upcomimg post. Save