In the 7 years it’s been around, Bocas has grown from strength to strength. The annual literary festival has hosted some of the most successful and interesting writers, publishers and poets of Caribbean, and World literature. And because it’s in Trinidad, there’s a non-pretentiousness to the proceedings that may make your faves seem significantly more approachable.…
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…
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
Play the Devil gets a post #TTFF16 screening at Digicel IMAX on Sunday 23rd October at 4pm. Check it out! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUzk9skU1-E?rel=0]
In 2010 an animated journey began when Andres Mänd, the head of the Animation Department of Volda University Norway was invited to be on the jury for CubAnima film festival in Havana, Cuba. There he met the founder and director of Animae Caribe Animation Festival Camille Selvon Abrahams. There was an immediate connection and discussion…
What’s to be said about Bazodee? The Machel Montano headlined film opened in his native land last week, and I happened to catch it on opening night. The film is entertaining, but far from exc… Source: Basically Bazodee: A Review
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for film lovers. It’s Film Festival Season! The T&T Film Festival is on, and there are so many great local and regional movies to watch. Plus TTFF always includes world cinema on the roster. It’s a movie buff’s paradise. But when TTFF ends on the 27th September,…
The Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival is up and running. There’s great selection of films in the line-up. What I liked was Dr. Bruce Paddington’s statement that local films can support a National Buy Local campaign. And Flow’s Marketing Director Cindy-Ann Gatt says audiences like local and regional content. Not just films. She says they…
The Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival is up and running. There’s great selection of films in the line-up. What I liked was Dr. Bruce Paddington’s statement that local films can support a National Buy Local campaign. And Flow’s Marketing Director Cindy-Ann Gatt says audiences like local and regional content. Not just films. She says they…