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Welcome to the thirteenth annual trinidad+tobago film festival!
Most of us love film and despite the prevalence of laptops, Industry events at this year’s Festival include a two-day tablets and smartphones as alternative screens, going to symposium on the business of film which will give local and the cinema still remains extremely popular. regional filmmakers the chance to engage with international However, for most of the year, the vast majority of films professionals. We will also host another Caribbean Film Mart shown at cinemas in Trinidad and Tobago are blockbusters during which local filmmakers will receive guidance from from Hollywood with a few Bollywood musicals. It is experts to help develop their film projects and vie for an award therefore left to the local film festivals to offer a diverse for having the best pitch. range of films from Europe and Africa as well as environmental films and animation. The success of this initiative is illustrated by the Jamaican film Sprinter by director Storm Saulter. Saulter, one of the first The trinidad+tobago film festival, however, remains the participants in 2015, called the Mart “one of the most helpful only film festival in the region with its major focus being development programmes” he’s taken part in. Sprinter, the films from Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean. (Our film he pitched in 2015 received assistance at the Mart and definition of the Caribbean includes films from the English, in June 2018 won three awards at the American Black Film French, Dutch and Spanish Caribbean as well as the Festival including the Grand Jury prize for Best Narrative Caribbean diaspora. Feature. Sprinter will be screened at ttff/18.
We are also proud to welcome once again, the Propella The ttff is the culmination of a year in which we have held project from Jamaica, which will see a number of new short Community Screenings in different parts of the country films receiving their world premiere at ttff/18. including Arima, UWI, San Fernando and Tobago, and conducted a number of workshops which trained 45 The ttff is involved in facilitating new film productions and participants in scriptwriting and film development. will screen three short films at ttff/18 that were developed We love film and our gift to the public is eight days of as part of a workshop we coordinated in March on Human memorable films in venues throughout Trinidad and Tobago Rights in partnership with the Canadian High Commission. where the local and Caribbean films will once again play to packed audiences as we celebrate our thirteenth We see ourselves playing an important role in developing trinidad+tobago film festival. the local and Caribbean film industry in a number of ways. Many filmmakers produce films to be premiered at the Bruce Paddington (PhD) festival and they look forward to receiving valuable feedback Founder/Festival Director from their audiences and fellow filmmakers. trinidad+tobago film festival
contents who we are
1 welcome THE FESTIVAL TEAM 1 who we are Bruce Paddington Founder + Festival Director 2 sponsors + partners Annabelle Alcazar Programme Director 3 festival basics Melvina Hazard Director of Community Development 4 Raycy Rousseau Project Manager Industry 6 caribbean feature films Franka Philip Guide Editor + Writer 7 panorama feature films Shaun Rambarran Webmaster 7 medium length + short films Shiv Shaw Guide Writer 9 Julien Neaves Guide Writer 10 Dina Poon Chong Guide Writer 13 schedule at a glance Patrick Rasoanaivo theme + festival guide designer 17 index of films Brandon Kalyan Graphic Design 18 Jerel Ramsay Graphic Design 22 BC Pires Youth Jury + Future Critics Mentor 28 Neala Bhagwansingh Social Media Coordinator 36 Whitney Punch MovieTowne Port of Spain House Manager 40 Marian Bradshaw MovieTowne Port of Spain House Manager Dianne Hazard-Chase MovieTowne San Fernando House Manager Susanne Ramrattan MovieTowne Tobago Coordinator VCTT Volunteers - see page
Cover art: Sabrina Charran
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sponsors + partners festival basics
WHERE TO GET TICKETS VENUES Drink Lounge & Bistro The trinidad+tobago film festival Tickets are available at venues 63 Rosalino Street would like to acknowledge at the time of screenings, and MovieTowne Woodbrook the generous support of our in advance at the box office. Audrey Jeffers Highway Tel (+)1.868.223.7243 sponsors. Tickets at MovieTowne are $40. Port of Spain Schoolchildren in uniform and/or C3 LOFTT Gallery student ID $20. Screenings at all Corinth Road, San Fernando 63 Rosalino Street Leading SPONSORS other venues are free. Lowlands Mall, Tobago Woodbrook BP Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (+) 1.868.627.8277 Ministry of the Community movietowne.com Big Black Box Development, Culture and the Arts Please vacate the cinema between Murray Street screenings Woodbrook MERCHANDISE Port of Spain Film festival merchandise will be The University of the West Indies Supporting SPONSORS sold at MovieTowne Port of Spain. The National Gas Company of Film Programme Building The Residence Trinidad and Tobago 12 Carmody Road, St Augustine One Woodbrook Place Republic Bank Limited http://www.sta.uwi.edu Port of Spain
Find us on Grundlos Kollektiv ttff office CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS 11 Cipriani Boulevard 199 Belmont Circular Road FilmTT Port of Spain Port of Spain, Trinidad+Tobago Ministry of Tourism Tel: (+)1.868.223.2278 National Lotteries Control Board ttfilmfestival.com
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PROGRAMMING PARTNERS Media partner Venue partners IN-KIND PARTNERS Alliance Française Flow MovieTowne Port of Spain Subway British Council Caribbean MovieTowne San Fernando KFC Canadian High Commission MovieTowne Tobago Culturego Magazine The University of the West Indies Embassy of Chile Grundlos Kollektiv Embassy of Colombia Big Black Box Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany LOFTT Gallery Embassy of The Kingdom of the Netherlands Embassy of Mexico
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Our volunteers Reel Human Rights
A partnership with The High Commission of Canada we couldn’t Three short films with human issue in Trinidad + Tobago, or the audiences, challenging individuals as a filmmaker. I’ve been able to not do it without you all! rights themes, will screen at this wider Caribbean. to expand their knowledge and just hone my craft, but now have an year’s festival, the culmination perspectives. It can also stimulate opportunity to prove it. I’m grateful Our partnership with the Volunteer Centre of Trinidad and Tobago of a partnership with The High The three winners of a healthy dialogue, and ultimately, for the privilege to hold a lens to (VCTT) exceeds our expectations. Through a very mindful and thorough Commission of Canada. CAN$5,000 prize to go towards change.” underrepresented communities recruitment process, we are fortunate to have twelve VCTT volunteers production were Andrei Pierre and under-addressed issues in our working with us since August to help make ttff/18 a success. Fifteen emerging filmmakers (Please See Attached), Francesca The three successful filmmakers culture, and help tell their stories were selected in March 2017 Hawkins (Judgment Day) and were jubilant about being able to responsibly and with due empathy.” Rebekah Ache Data Entry and Events Support to participate in a scriptwriting Siobhan Millette (I Choose You). realise their projects. According Xavier Barzey Administrative Support workshop facilitated by Canadian- The three five-minute films will to Siobhan Millette: “I’m Francesca Hawkins complimented and Feature Writer Jamaican film professional, screen as a package at ttff and will grateful that the Canadian High the partnership and initiative: “Our M’Saydez Campbell Data Entry Annmarie Morais, who continued to then be shown at festivals around Commission has afforded me names were removed from the Chinara Griffith Media Support and Data Entry mentor the filmmakers throughout the region and in Canada. the opportunity to bring attention submissions to ensure transparency Thaiz Gulston Media Lead the year. to one aspect of how these in the judging process. This Vishala Jabar Photographer At the cheque presentation prejudices affect one of the many collaboration between ttff and the Alex Johnson Data Entry and Technical Support In March this year, the same fifteen ceremony at the Canadian High marginalized communities here in Canadian High Commission has Angela St. Pierre-Maynard Social Media Support filmmakers attended ‘From Script Commission, Her Excellency Trinidad + Tobago. Often late to been extremely supportive of film and Feature Writer to Production’, a two-day seminar Carla Hogan Rufelds, reiterated the table, it is high time that ALL development while also raising Alethea McIntyre Administrative, Logistics conducted by Film Board of that Canada regards human citizens are afforded equality and awareness on a variety of human and Volunteer Coordinator Canada producer Selwyn Jacob. rights as universal, indivisible, protection from discrimination, rights issues in Trinidad + Tobago.” Eleven volunteers Administrative Support The seminar also included interdependent and interrelated. violence, unfair treatment and Nickisha McClean Parris Media Support and Feature Writer presentations from specialists in She emphasised that human biases under the laws of our Rhea Ward Events Assistant human rights issues to help the rights cinema plays an important land.” writers develop approaches to role in the struggle for justice REEL HUMAN RIGHTS FILMS We would like to also give a huge big up and thanks to all Sat 22 Sept, 8.30pm their topics. These filmmakers were and dignity, speaking out against Andrei Pierre spoke about the our regular volunteers as well as new ones this year.. MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A then tasked with producing a script censorship and repression. She advantages to his professional for a five minute short narrative or said, “This extremely powerful development: “This program has documentary film on a human rights medium can touch and inspire given me robust legs to stand on
British Council workshop
As a continuation of the workshops held in 2017 in script business skills needed for proposal writing and presentations. development, a two-day seminar facilitated by Peter Ansorge, head In addition, the participants had the opportunity to strengthen their of Short Courses and Part-time Diplomas at the National Film and delivery and pitching skills and on day two, all fifteen presented a Television School (NFTS) in the UK was held in March. five-minute “pitch” of their project.
Ansorge has previously worked for the BBC as a script editor and “Peter was insightful and sensitive as he took us through the paces producer in the Drama department. He also worked with the UK’s of improving our pitches,” said Sonja Dumas. “As a result of his Channel 4 as Head of Drama for television series and serials and workshop, I have a far greater sense of confidence about how to as a commissioning editor for fiction. Ansorge helped to create the structure my storyline and how to sell my idea to producers.” Film On 4 strand which has been involved with the production of Filmmaker Juliette McCawley also felt she benefited from the time films like 12 Years a Slave, Buena Vista Social Club and Slumdog with Ansorge. “Peter’s workshop was informative and a great Millionaire. opportunity to hone my pitching skills,” she said. “I was able to learn as well from the guidance he gave to other The 15 filmmakers from the 2017 workshop were taken through filmmakers. As always with workshops like this it was great to a series of exercises to develop a clear understanding of what network with my fellow filmmakers.” investors are looking for, sharpening the entrepreneurial and
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industry activities
Business Seminar Thursday 20 + Friday 21 September Caribbean Film Mart Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 September LOFTT Gallery, Rosalino Street Sponsored by FilmTT 9.00am to 4.00pm Sponsored by BP Trinidad + Tobago Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre Following on from the successful Caribbean Ten feature film projects will be selected and successful participants will have the opportunity to Programme Background Goals Objectives Film Mart launched at ttff/15,ttff will host a attend presentations by industry professionals on: ttff’s efforts to help develop a more • Re-establish the links among corporate • Building business development third Caribbean Film Mart during this year’s robust financial market for film financing sector, financial sector and the capacity of T+T’s independent content festival. 1. International appeal and viability of local films: presentation on the current state of affairs for in T+T has in the past included efforts to filmmaking community creators Caribbean films and how to get them into the festival/ market circuit: by Sydney Levine educate decision makers from some of • Provide a refresher on the value chain • Provide roadmaps for corporate entities 2. Producing a film from concept to pre-production: the country’s top companies about the of screen-based media with special to invest in the T+T and Caribbean film 3. Panel: Co-Productions /Marketing/Distribution film industry and their role as potential emphasis on film/tv content industries 4. One on One Sessions: each participant will get the opportunity to spend time with the investors in film productions in T+T. • Identify the types of financial • Identify and develop the network professionals individually. The highly successful Think, Drink, Link participation that is common in the of potential private sector investors 5. CFM Pitch Panel: all ten participants will pitch their project to a judging panel: Robert event at ttff/15 was a major milestone in industry and the roles of corporate interested in production and marketing Maylor, Gian Franco and Joanne Butcher this effort, as it brought together twenty funders and content-creators and IP- investment CFM Pitch Panel Judges: corporate decision makers with ten local owners • Train producers, IP owners, and filmmakers to learn about the overall • Delve deeper into the ongoing production service providers about the possibilities of participating in the film government programmes available record keeping necessary to access industry. to corporate financiers (sponsors, government incentives investors, lending agencies) • Facilitate the establishment of groups This year ttff intends to continue this • Present case studies on the successful that will package content for funding biennial effort by hosting a new seminar use of the programmes in the lead up to the Caribbean Film Mart • Provide step by step instructions on at ttff 2018 focusing on the development, accessing existing programmes and the production and distribution of indigenous record keeping involved screen-based media content.
Robert Maylor Robert A. Maylor is the founder of Mental Telepathy Pictures, a production company and management collective seeking to Gian Franco empower visionary auteurs of the diaspora Saturday 22 September Joanne Butcher Acting Workshop: The Gian Franco was born in Trinidad before by advocating for the inclusion of their Trinidad Theatre Workshop Joanne Butcher has worked as a global Business Behind the Show migrating to the UK and then to the US. He voices in the creation of content for marketing consultant for YouTube, and is a In partnership with Elisha Creates has spent the last 18 years in various roles global audiences. The company recently former director of the Alliance Cinema at in media, entertainment and technology. completed its first feature film SPRINTER, Miami Beach, a founder of the Independent Los Angeles-based, Trinidadian raised Noel Arthur Gian Franco worked at Microsoft before executive produced by Mental Telepathy Filmmaker Project (IFP/National) and of IFP/ Noel Arthur, will share his business Noel has worked on major network moving to Amazon in 2010, to launch one Pictures partner, NBA veteran/media Miami. She has taught film financing and strategies for building a solid foundation television shows for the past 14 years in of their digital distribution platforms, then personality Richard Jefferson and Will & screenwriting and has worked extensively for members of the T+T creative Hollywood including Scrubs, NCIS and assumed responsibility for Global Content Jada Pinkett Smith. Formerly, Maylor was with hundreds of filmmakers from the US, community, primarily for acting in the NCIS: LA. He has also coached hundreds Business Development in Amazon’s TV the Director of International Sales at Todd UK, Brazil, Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin North American market. The workshop of upcoming actors. and film distribution group, after having Wagner & Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures. America. Butcher has been mentored by will cover career basics, audition completed US Content Acquisition for the In his role, Rob represented the company’s James Schamus (producer/screenwriter of techniques and there will be opportunities same group. As an independent advisor film slate and extensive library catalog at Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm and Crouching for one on one meetings with Mr. Arthur. and consultant Gian Franco has worked major film festivals and markets, driving Tiger, Hidden Dragon); and Lucy and Luis The aim is to provide mid-level acting with media titans such as Comcast and distribution of these films onto screens and Carlos Barreto, who have made over 200 professionals the tools to enable them to Liberty Global/Liberty Latin America as well emerging digital platforms worldwide. Rob films in Brazil. be competitive in the American as disruptive startups such as Pluto.TV and has held industry positions at United Talent entertainment industry. StreaMe, on their media and entertainment Agency (UTA), and in the scripted television strategies. department of Mark Burnett’s One Three Media Company.
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opening night film opening night film
Director: Frances-Anne Solomon HERO: Inspired by the 2018, Canada/Trinidad+Tobago Documentary Feature/110 minutes Extraordinary Life and WORLD PREMIERE
Times of Mr. Ulric Cross Hero was inspired by the life and times of Trinidadian Ulric Cross and expertly uses archival material/ footage to recite a tale of Tuesday 18 September opposition and triumph. The film focuses on Cross’ contribution to the Pan African movement and his relationships with Tanzania’s NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR THE first president Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first PERFORMING ARTS (NAPA) prime minister and president. Port of Spain The film blends archive footage and dramatic reconstruction to great effect in the telling of this important historic chapter in Ulric 6.00pm – Cocktail reception, Cross’ extraordinary life. 7.30pm – Film screening: Hero Shot in Ghana, United Kingdom and Trinidad + Tobago, Hero stars Nikolai Salcedo as Ulric Cross. The cast also includes acclaimed British actor Joseph Marcell as CLR James, noted Trinidadian actor Rudolph Walker and a number of leading Ghanaian actors.
The director and members of the cast and crew will be present
special screening SPRINTER
ttff is delighted to be screening Sprinter, directed by Jamaican Storm Saulter, and produced by Robert Maylor. Back in 2015 Sprinter was one of the projects at the first Caribbean Film Mart so it is especially gratifying to see it come to fruition and to such critical acclaim. Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are among the Executive Producers. According to Saulter, “Sprinter is the story of a Barrel Pickney determined to run as fast as he can to reunite his broken family”.
Sun 23 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 8, Q+A
Both the director and producer will be at the screening on 23 September.
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Spotlight on education and emerging talent
At the ttff, we recognise the value and potential of film to inspire and challenge how young people perceive, interact and behave in the world around them. Nurturing film literacy in students and encouraging a love for independent film, is an important part of our long-term work to foster the emergence of a new generation of film-makers, critical thinkers, writers and wider audience for Caribbean cinema.
Films at The University of The West Indies Future Critics Award For the last thirteen years, we have partnered with The UWI At the conclusion of the Festival, the best Future Critic is Film Programme to provide students and faculty with a platform selected on the basis of the quality of their writing and analysis, for showcasing their work and workshops and networking their ability to meet tight deadlines, and the number of reviews opportunities. In 2018 we will be screening for 2 days Friday 21, published. They are awarded a cash prize, at the ttff’s award Documentary Day and Saturday 22, highlighting some of the best of ceremony at the end of the Festival. the festival. The BPTT Youth Jury + Award Screenings for Secondary Schools This programme affords young people aged 16–21 the The ttff uses the medium of film to encourage and develop film opportunity to view and adjudicate on youth-themed films that literacy among secondary school students, as well as to help bring are in competition for the annual Youth Jury award during the the school curriculum alive. Every year, the ttff programmes films official Festival period. Following a national call for submissions, for schools during the week-day morning slots at MovieTowne 5 jurors are selected on the basis of the strength of their POS, San Fernando and Tobago, selecting films that support the application. Under the mentorship of professional film critic CXC and CAPE curricula - providing an opportunity to sharpen BC Pires, the Youth Jury views six films focusing on young foreign language skills, get an in-depth look at the wider Caribbean, protagonists dealing with coming-of-age issues, challenges and and have a new experience of literature classics, through film triumphs. This is a valuable opportunity to develop competence adaptations. in critical analysis skills and teamwork.
Future Critics Programme For the third consecutive year, this initiative prepares students of the Ken Gordon School of Journalism at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad + Tobago (COSTAATT) for the rigour, best practices and industry standards of critical film analysis and festival reporting. Students from the programme are selected to attend special Festival events for professional journalists, as well as public screenings, in order to write critical reviews of films under the mentorship of a film critic and journalist, BC Pires. The students are expected to write daily reviews for our website and post social media reports during the Festival period.
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awards and jury adopting art for a change
Visual art has traditionally been an integral part of our annual film festival. In the past, we’ve had the privilege of featuring the works of visual artists Peter Doig, Christopher Cozier and Edward Bowen; photographers Abigail Hadeed, Alex Smailes, Arnaldo James, Kibwe Brathwaite and Marlon James on our festival guides and posters.
For ttff/18, we return to our roots of festival art by featuring the works of visual artist and painter Sabrina Charran and her ‘Heart Therapy Project’ at the St Jude’s School for Girls. Sabrina’s work has been on our radar for a while now, especially her dramatic, thought- provoking street art and stencils. As an educator she has volunteered her time and service to various art related projects notably the 2015 ‘Heart Therapy’ project at the St Jude’s School for Girls, a Catholic Reformatory located in Belmont, Trinidad. AWARDS SPECIAL PRIZES On the 2015 project, Sabrina explains, “Over a two The ttff awards prizes in three categories: jury prizes, people’s CARIBBEAN FILM MART - BEST PITCH PRIZE week period, the girls engaged in art sessions designed choice awards and special awards. The awards ceremony will take Sponsored by BP Trinidad and Tobago/TT$75,000 around self-awareness. A lot of their artworks took place on Tuesday 25 September at the Central Bank Auditorium in the form of self-portraits that focused less on skill and Port of Spain. BEST FILM AS DECIDED BY A YOUTH JURY more on communication through use of the materials to Sponsored by BP Trinidad and Tobago/TT$5,000 answer questions like: What do you like about yourself? In competition: What do you think other people see when they look BEST TT FEATURE FILM Buscando al Zorro (Looking for Zorro) - Wigner Duarte at you? Do you see yourself in other people? They Sponsored by BP Trinidad and Tobago/TT$10,000 El Chata (The Sparring Partner) - Gustavo Ramos Perales worked individually and in groups to produce paintings In competition: Las Hijas De Abril - Michel Franco and collages that explored, celebrated, revealed and Hero: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life and Times of Mr. Ulric Brown Girl Begins - Sharon Lewis transformed perspectives about themselves”. Cross - Frances-Anne Solomon Le Rêve Français: Part 1 - Christian Faure Unfinished Sentences - Mariel Brown Sprinter - Storm Saulter While our main focus has been on film development, promotion and audience appreciation and growth, we BEST TT SHORT FILM FUTURE CRITICS PRIZE were inspired by this project since it closely aligns with Sponsored by BP Trinidad and Tobago /TT$5,000 Mentor BC Pires selects the top future critic from the COSTAATT one of our main objectives of using the creative arts for In competition: journalism students participating in this initiative. social intervention and change. The Deliverer - Paul Pryce Mangroves - Teneille Newallo PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS In celebration of our 13th birthday and in recognition of Venus and Magnet - Elspeth Duncan Sponsored by FilmTT/TT$5,000 each the critical value of projects of this nature, we’re happy to Black Hair - Miquel Galofre BEST FEATURE FILM - NARRATIVE announce our adoption of the ‘Heart Therapy ‘Project at Live Bait - Dominic Boos BEST FEATURE FILM - DOCUMENTARY The St Jude’s School for Girls. Earlier in August, with our BEST SHORT FILM. support, Sabrina re-introduced the programme, working with a group of girls at the school over a six-day period.
The resulting art in addition to the works produced from T+T FILMS JURY Gustavo Graef Marino Renee Robinson the 2015 workshop will form the ttff/18 Heart Therapy Gustavo Graef Marino is one of Chile’s Renee Robinson is the Film Commissioner Exhibition at the LOFTT Gallery in Woodbrook, Port of Ida Does most acclaimed filmmakers. His original of Jamaica, and a multi-lingual cultural Spain over the duration of the festival. Prints of the works Ida Does is an award winning documentary and highly acclaimed take on post- industry strategist and thought-leader. will be available for sale, the proceeds of which will go filmmaker. She was born in Suriname Pinochet Chile, Johnny 100 Pesos, She has worked in Canada, Europe, USA, towards the continuation of the programme. and worked in the Netherlands, Surinam became Chile’s highest grossing movie South Africa, and the Caribbean - in the and Aruba as a teacher, journalist and and was selected as its official candidate areas of film, television, digital media, We’re excited about this project and assert our documentary filmmaker. Her work contains for the Best Foreign Language Film arts and culture, entertainment, and commitment to the evolution of the programme which we themes from (colonial) history, art, culture category in the 1993 Academy Awards, communications. With two decades of hope to include film, dance and other performing arts in and social justice. In 2017, Does received as well as the Spanish Goya Awards that senior management experience in content the future. the CineFam Award at the CaribbeanTales same year. Following international success, programming, regulation/policy, strategic About the Artist International Film Festival in Toronto it won the Chilean film critics’ Best planning and industry intelligence, she Sabrina Charran is a Visual artist and educator from Trinidad + Special edition prints and a limited edition (Canada) as the best female director of Movie of the Year and went on to obtain has held leadership roles at the Ministry Tobago. She received her BA in Visual Arts at the University of the production of T-shirts and hoodies of the Sabrina color. Her latest film ‘Amsterdam, traces of worldwide distribution.Gustavo headed the of Culture in Jamaica, the ReelWorld Film West Indies, St Augustine, graduating in 2006 with first class honors. Charran’s artwork featured on our tfff/18 posters sugar’ (2017) received the award for ‘best Jury of the Latin American Cinema Award Festival, the Harbourfront Centre, Women She has exhibited in several group shows including Galvanize’s Visibly and guides will be also be on display and available documentary’ in Toronto. at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. in Film & Television - Toronto and with the Absent (2006) at the CCA7, The Bottom Line (2006) at the Cotton for sale at LOFTT Gallery. Gustavo has also directed, wrote and Toronto International Film Festival. Renee Tree Foundation, Erotic Art (2009) at Alice Yard, Represent (2018) at produced big budget movies for Chilean is a member of the international Maytree Thinkartworktt Studio and 4Drawing (2018) at The 101 Art Gallery. TV like Balmaceda, for which he won the Leadership Network and serves on the In 2015 she had her first solo exhibition, LOVEHATE, at Medulla Art Best Drama Award in the Altazor Television alumni board of Campion College. Gallery. Her work ranges from figure drawing, street art (both stencil awards. His next TV movie, Prat, reached and wheat paste) and painting. Since 2008, Sabrina has been a record audience. In 2017, he directed employed with the Ministry of Education, teaching Visual Arts and Art and produced Johnny 100 Pesos - Twenty and Design at Queen’s Royal College, Port of Spain. Years and a Day.
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the ttff/18 film lineup
short + medium-length caribbean panorama films
The Caribbean section The Panorama section consists This section comprises films comprises feature-length of feature-length films from world under 30 minutes in length films from the Caribbean, cinema. The films in this section (shorts) and films between the diaspora, and films by come from North America, Latin 30 and 52 minutes in length international filmmakers made in America, Europe and India. (medium-length films) from and about the region. the Caribbean and its diaspora.
Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening. Films in competition for both categories are indicated by this icon:ttfilmfestival.com
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PG-13 PG
BUSCANDO AL ZORRO HERO: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life (LOOKING FOR ZORRO) HALL and Times of Ulric Cross
Director: Wigner Duarte Director: Rommel Hall Director: Frances-Anne Solomon 2018, Dominican Republic 2017, Barbados 2018, Canada/Trinidad+Tobago Narrative Feature / 80 minutes Documentary Feature/ 95 minutes Documentary Feature/ 90 minutes Spanish with English subtitles T+T PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE The story of the notorious fugitive Winston Leroy Hall is something of In 1941 Ulric Cross, a young man from Trinidad, leaves his island home Looking for Zorro tells the story of Pablo, who raises his nine-year- almost folkloric legend in Barbados. Convicted for the murder of an to seek his fortune. He emerges from World War II as the RAF’s most old son, Rafael, without the support of his absent wife. Pablo and elderly plantation owner, he escaped prison authorities multiple times decorated West Indian. Cross’ long life spanned key moments of the Rafael must go on a long journey through high mountains searching and managed to stay on the run for nearly two decades across the 20th century including independence in Africa and the Caribbean. for “Zorro”, their last hope of making a living. During the journey, they Caribbean. The truth behind his escapes are elusive and bizarre as the Shot in Ghana, UK and T + T, the film is not just about his life but of the encounter situations that test their own turbulent relationship. story unfolds in this thrilling documentary. extraordinary and transformative times he lived in, and tells the untold story of those Caribbean professionals who helped to liberate Africa caribbean Fri 21 Sept, 10.45am, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Wed 19 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago from colonialism. Fri 21 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Thu 20 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 8, Q+A Tue 25 Sept, 10.45am, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne San Fernando Wed 19 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A features Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne San Fernando
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COCOTE EL CHATA (THE SPARRING PARTNER) LE REVE FRANCAIS - Parts 1 + 2 SPRINTER (THEY HAD A DREAM)
Director: Nelson Carlo de los Santos Director: Gustavo Ramos Perales Director: Christian Faure Director: Storm Saulter 2017, Dominican Republic/Argentina/Germany/Qatar 2018, Dominican Republic 2018/Martinique/France 2018, Jamaica + US Narrative Feature/ 106 minutes Narrative Feature/ 75 minutes Each part 90 minutes Narrative Feature Spanish with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles French with English subtitles T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE In the 60s, the French Government encouraged islanders to leave the A Jamaican teen, burdened by an unstable father and an unruly older Alberto, an evangelical gardener, returns to his hometown to attend Although Samuel has the potential to be a boxing champion, he seems French West Indies to escape poverty that resulted from the closure brother, hopes a meteoric rise in track-and-field can reunite him with the funeral of his father who was killed by an influential man. To mourn destined to fail. At thirty and just out of prison, he has to become a of sugar mills. Lured by the idea of a “dream country”, and although his mother, who has lived illegally in the US for over a decade. the deceased, he is forced to participate in religious celebrations that sparring partner because nobody will give him the chance at a fight. they were citizens of France, they found life in Europe was not what are contrary to his will and beliefs. Unable to feed his family and exposed to temptation, Samuel is deter- they had imagined. Sun 23 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A mined to get back in the ring and prove he has changed. Thu 20 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Thu 20 Sept, 10.45am, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 (Part 1) Fri 21 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A Wed 19 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Sat 22 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 (Part 1) Fri 21 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne San Fernando Tue 25 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Sun 23 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 (Part 2) Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Tue 25 Sept, 10.45am, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 (Part 2) Sponsored by the Alliance Française
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Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.
PG-13 AA PG
STUDIO DRUMMIE AND THE HISTORY UNFINISHED SENTENCES CARNIVAL MESSIAH: IN THE FADE OF ROCK STEADY MUSIC THE FILM & DOCUMENTARY
Director: Guy Anthony Racosta Director: Mariel Brown Director: Ashley Karrell Director: Fatih Akin 2018, Jamaica 2017, T+T 2017, UK 2017, Germany/France Documentary Feature/ 90 minutes Documentary Feature/95 minutes Documentary/128 minutes Narrative Feature/106 minutes T+T PREMIERE CARIBBEAN PREMIERE German with English subtitles A filmmaker daughter and her writer father navigate the conflicting issues CARIBBEAN PREMIERE This film introduces the last living original creators of a genre of of their relationship: race and art, adoration and disappointment, success Carnival Messiah: The Film & Documentary presents this incredible the- music that has spread around the globe over the last 50 years and and failure. Until he dies and in her grief, she discovers that his poetry atrical production in full. It includes exclusive behind the scenes inter- Katja’s life falls apart in the blink of an eye when two neo-Nazis kill her has spawned multiple record empires using the Soul Vendors beats and prose transcend death, allowing her to hear his voice again and find views, from then and now, with Carnival Messiah’s visionary creatives, husband and six-year-old son in a bomb attack. Her quest for justice without recognition. Ken Boothe, Bunny Wailer, The Melodians and a way back to herself. cast members, the artistic director of the Southbank Centre, Jude Kelly, soon pushes her to the edge as the two suspects stand trial for murder. other greats of the period are featured. and also features additional filmed content from Danielle Dieffenthaller. Wed 19 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A Wed 19 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne Screen 8 Fri 21 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A Thu 20 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Sat 22 Sept, 2.30pm, The University of the West Indies Sun 23 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne San Fernando Sponsored by The German Embassy Sat 22 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne, Tobago
AA PG-13 18+ 18+
BIGGER THAN AFRICA BROWN GIRL BEGINS JOHNNY 100 PESOS: LA CAUSA TWENTY YEARS AND A DAY
Director: Oluwatoyin Ibrahim Adekeye Director: Sharon Lewis Director: Gustavo Graef Marino Director: Andrés Figueredo 2018, US 2017, Canada 2018, Chile 2017, Venezuela Documentary Feature/ 90 minutes Narrative Feature / 84 minutes Narrative Feature / 120 minutes Documentary Feature / 100 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE CARIBBEAN PREMIERE Spanish with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles CARIBBEAN PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE The most pronounced African Culture of the Diasporas remains the Based on a prequel to Nalo Hopkinson’s novel Brown Girl in the Ring, culture of the Yorubas. From Brazil to Trinidad, United States to Cuba, this enthralling film imagines the post-apocalyptic Toronto where Ti- Johnny is released from jail after serving twenty years and one day for In the last twenty years, Venezuela’s prison system has spiralled out Haiti and across the entire Caribbean. Bigger Than Africa follows the Jeanne, a young reluctant priestess, must resurrect ancient Caribbean a heist and double murder. Despite trying to turn over a new leaf he of control, to the point where jails are internally ruled by the criminal trans-Atlantic slave trade route from West Africa to six different countries spirits to save her people and survive the possession ritual that killed her ends up participating in a kidnapping plot to recover a large ransom. inmates. Shot over six years with exclusive footage from inside the - USA, Nigeria, Brazil, Republic of Benin, Trinidad + Tobago and Cuba mother. prisons, it follows the lives of three reformed ex-convicts and a group to explore and find reasons for the survival of this particular West African Thu 20 Sept 8.30pm, MovieTowne San Fernando of young convicted rappers who narrate their life stories, how life is Culture. Fri 21 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne San Fernando Sat 22 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A inside the prisons and their pathways towards redemption. Sat 22 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A Wed 19 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Tue 25 Sept, 6.30pm MovieTowne Tobago, Q+A Sponsored by the Embassy of Chile Fri 21 Sept, 7.00pm, The University of the West Indies Wed 19 Sept, 6.30pm, MovieTowne San Fernando Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Sat 22 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Thu 20 Sept, 6.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Tue 25 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8
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16+ 16+ PG-13 AA
LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL MAMÁ RUN FREE UNA NOCHE DE CALYPSO (APRIL’S DAUGHTERs) (A NIGHT OF CALYPSO)
Director: Michel Franco Director : Phillippe van Hissenhoven Director: Simon Sharkey Director: Fernando Muñoz 2017, Mexico 2017, Colombia 2018, UK/Jamaica 2017, Panama Narrative Feature / 103 minutes Narrative Feature/ 78 minutes Documentary Feature/ 70 minutes Documentary Feature / 83 minutes Spanish with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles CARIBBEAN PREMIERE English + Spanish CARIBBEAN PREMIERE CARIBBEAN PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE A group of young men from Parade Gardens embark on a journey of Seventeen-year-old Valeria, did not want to tell her long-absent mother Victoria is a reserved and independent woman who enjoys her solitude. transformation using parkour and Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Jour- Members of the Amistad Group, one of the last active calypso groups about her pregnancy but due to the economic strain and overwhelming She has an unexpected visit from her long-lost daughter Sara, who asks ney. In a programme hosted by the British Council, the National Theatre in Panama, recount the origins, history and heritage of the genre which responsibility, her half-sister, Clara, decides to call their mother. April ar- her to take care of her 7-year-old granddaughter for a couple of days. of Scotland and Manifesto Jamaica, they create a piece of theatre that originated in Trinidad + Tobago. They recall all of the past Panamanian rives almost immediately, and her maternal instinct is reignited. This favour will totally change her life. After a shocking event and unfore- impacted the young men and their community through their struggles calypsonians who left their legacy. In the end, they come together for a seen news, Sara comes back home to make things right with her mother. over three years of engagement and development. night of calypso. Thu Sept 20, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Sun Sept 23, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Thu 20 Sept, 9.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Sun 23 Sept, 7.00pm, Big Black Box Sat 22 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Tue 25 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Sat 22 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne San Fernando Sponsored by the Embassy of Mexico Sun 23 Sept, 6.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sponsored by the Embassy of Colombia
16+ 14+ PG-13
MOMMIE PATHER PANCHALI ...Y DE PRONTO EL AMANECER THE STRANGE LUCK OF VS NAIPAUL (…AND SUDDENLY THE DAWN)
Director: Xavier Dolan Director: Satyajit Ray Director: Silvio Caiozzi Director: Adam Low 2014, Canada 1955, India Hindi + English 2017, Chile 2008, UK Narrative Feature/ 140 minutes Narrative Feature/ 125 minutes Narrative Feature / 188 minutes Documentary Feature/ 78 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE Spanish with English subtitles Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreams of a better life for himself and CARIBBEAN PREMIERE When Sir Vidia Naipaul agreed to have a film made about him he said Mommie is a tremendously acted, heartfelt, inventive black comedy about his family and leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, he wanted it to be “as personal as possible”. This is indeed a candid a widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, who finds new his wife, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, After 40 years, Pancho returns to his hometown of Chilean Patago- personal portrait, presenting the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature in hope when a mysterious neighbour inserts herself into their household. Apu, as well as Harihar’s elderly aunt Indir. The children enjoy the small nia, where century-old trees rise above abandoned tombs and the the three places that have been most influential to his writing career: pleasures of their difficult life, while their parents suffer the daily indigni- sea, drunk with rain, conceals the roots of men. He draws inspiration his native Trinidad, his ancestral home of India, and Wiltshire in england, Saturday 22 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 ties heaped upon them. from his past for an article that he is writing. He recalls his childhood, where he lived for many years. A moving and touching documentary the love of his life and the reason he had to flee the town. being shown as a tribute to the late author. Sponsored by The High Commission for Canada Sun 23 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Sun 23 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 7, Q+A Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7
Sponsored by the Embassy of Chile
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14+ PG-13 PG PG AA PG 14+
3 WOMEN: ABOUT ANIMA REGALIAS CÁLLATE NIÑA CHILDREN OF THE A MAURITIAN MOBIUS ANGELA CARONI SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IMPERFECT APPARITION (STAY QUIET) INCURSION CROSS MY HEART
Director: Ida Does Directors: Edmund Attong + Director: Juan Pablo Daranas Director: Rodell Warner Director: Victoria Linares Villegas Director: Ian Harnarine Director: Ina Sotirova Director: Sontenish A Meyers 2018, Suriname Savrina Chinien Molina 2017, T+T 2018, Dominican Republic 2018, T+T 2018, Jamaica 2017, Jamaica Narrative Short / 50 minutes 2018, Mauritius 2018, USA Documentary Short/2 minutes Narrative Short / 16 minutes Narrative Short / 8 minutes Documentary Short / 24 minutes Narrative Short / 14 minutes T+T PREMIERE Documentary Short / 61 minutes Documentary Short / 13 minutes Spanish with English subtitles CARIBBEAN PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE A silent film in which Anima T+T PREMIERE From late 16th century until 1863, Regalias, portrayed by Michelle A young woman in the US In May 2010, the Jamaican An American teenager visits her the Dutch sold an estimated The lives of a wealthy businessman, Angela is a young Afro-Cuban Isava, appears. Daniela, a college student, is reminisces about her childhood government carried out a family in Jamaica and uncovers a 600,000 African people into controversial military operation slavery. This documentary follows two drug addicts and a woman living as an immigrant secretly dating a school girl, Lucía. passion for T+T’s national bird, secret that changes the way she cantankerous obeah woman are in New York City. Struggling to Thu 20 Sept, 7.00pm When Lucía’s father figures out the Scarlet Ibis, and its flight to in Kingston’s Tivoli and Denham sees the people she loves. This three women who are each involved Gardens to capture the notorious strangely intertwined in the events maintain a job she finds solace, Grundlos Kollektiv what is happening, things take a freedom. film explores the culture of silence in the heritage of slavery in their drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke. following a woman’s suicide. Set on identity and her history in the vibrant peculiar turn and their relationship is amongst women, the kinds of respective roles. When researcher On their hunt for Dudus, enforcement Ellen-Rose Kambel discovers a the culturally and ethnically diverse Cuban Diaspora communities threatened. Fri 21 Sept, 2.30pm secrets we keep and who they are The University of the West Indies officers allegedly murdered hundreds photograph of a man who owned island of Mauritius and filmed while coping with her feelings of suspected of criminal activity, without actually protecting. her ancestors in slavery, she entirely in its local Creole language, loneliness in the Big Apple. Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm Fri 21 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 due process. Seven years later, some decides to locate his descendants. this weaving story touches on the of the children who lived through the Thu Sept 20, 8.30pm Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 macabre yet finds humorous twists MovieTowne San Fernando Tivoli/Denham Incursion reflect on Fri 21 Sept, 5.00pm, Sun Sept 23, 6.00pm that embody both the light and dark Fri 21 Sept, 8.30pm Mon 24 Sept, 3.30pm this traumatic experience and how University of the West Indies, Q+A GASP présente en coproduction avec lecx prod et chronoprod MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 areas of human life. MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 violence and isolation continue to Fri 21 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Fri 21 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS Screen 8, Q+A affect their lives. MovieTowne San Fernando Mon 24 Sept, 4.00pm, Sat 22 Sept, 5.00pm Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm Fri Sept 21, 6.00pm MovieTowne Tobago University of the West Indies MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Tue 25 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne San Fernando Sun Sept 23, 8.30pm MovieTowne San Fernando
un fILM écrit et réalisé par Pierre Le Gall et Sarah MallÉon
PG AA 16+ PG PG AA PG-13
DANCEHALL’S ASIAN BACK IN TIMES AVEC RAYANN FRANÇOIS-EUGÈNE, JEAN-PHILIPPE RANGASSAMY, JEAN-CLAUDE DUVERGER, DANIELY FRANCISQUE PRODUIT PAR OLIVIER CHABALIER ET CLÉMENCE MARCADIER BLACK DOLL BLACK HAIR BREAKING THE CYCLE DISPOSABLE CO-PRODUIT PAR DNICOLAS OLECX, JEFFUB MAGGI IMAGE VICTORO SEGUINU SON ANTOINET VIALLEFOND, RENAUD BAJEUX, XAVIER THIEULIN DÉCORS SARAH DESANGES-GIANGREGORIO AMBASSADORS MONTAGE MARYLOU VERGEZ MUSIQUE ORIGINALE COMPOSÉE PAR OLIVIER BERNET DUO IMPACTO Graphisme : Laure Guilloux
Director: Kleon McPherson Director: Akley Olton Director: Gabriella Bernard + Director: Miquel Galofré Director: Kaneal Gayle Director: Dylan Quesnel Directors: Pierre Le Gall + Directors: Molly Harding, Miranda 2018, T+T 2018, St. Vincent + The Miquel Galofré 2018, T+T 2018, Jamaica 2018, T+T Sarah Malléon Everingham + Alexandra Nagy Narrative Short / 4 minutes Grenadines 2018, T+T Documentary Short / 61 minutes Documentary Short/44 minutes Documentary Short / 12 minutes 2018, Martinique 2017, Cuba T+T PREMIERE Narrative Short/ 4 minutes Documentary Short / 20 minutes T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE Narrative Short/20 minutes Documentary Short / 8 minutes T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE French with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles Back in Times constructs an Moving from victim to survivor, This documentary takes a look at The successful recycling initiative T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE ingenious narrative via the spoken A little black girl plays with her white Natural vs Relaxed? Gabriella Camika, a mother of seven, shares the lives of four Japanese women of the Trincity region is showcased word art-form, highlighting the dolls until her grandmother reminds Bernard challenges society’s her personal story of how she got who fell in love with Dancehall as an ideal model that can be Eight-year-old Joseph refuses to A lesbian couple, who often glaring disparities between our past her what it means to be a woman. standard of beauty. As an aspiring the strength and voice to stop the music and decided to move to implemented throughout Trinidad. accept the departure of his older performs in female to male drag, and the present. model, she shares the hurdles cycle of domestic abuse in her Jamaica to build lives and careers. Highlighting that 75 per cent brother from Martinique to mainland shares their experience about Fri 21 Sept, 5.00pm she faced where her hair affected home. They also dismiss talks about of recyclable waste is currently France. Influenced by the traditional coming out of the closet. They Wed 19 Sept, 8.30pm The University of the West Indies her career. This is her story of cultural appropriation and profess designated for landfills, the urgent stories of his grandfather, he is give their insight on their efforts to MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Fri 21 Sept, 6.00pm overcoming her self-hate and Sun 23 Sept, 6.30pm their love for the island, the music, need for an eco-friendly approach convinced that Lentikri, an ancient challenge gender expectations and Sat 22 Sept, 2.30pm MovieTowne POS Screen 8 embracing her natural hair. MovieTowne Tobago the people and the culture. to waste management is explored. Martiniquan monster, prowls around spread acceptance in their rural The University of the West Indies Mon 24 Sept, 4.00pm Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm the house to attack his family. community of La Habana, Cuba. Sat 22 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne Tobago MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A Sat 22 Sept, 8.30pm Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm Joseph decides to confront it. Fri 21 Sept, 5.00pm MovieTowne Tobago, Q+A Tue 25 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne San Fernando, Q+A MovieTowne Screen 7, Q+A Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm The University of the West Indies MovieTowne San Fernando Sun 23 Sept, 6.00pm Sat 22 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne POS Screen 8 Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm Fri 21 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS Screen 8, Q+A MovieTowne Screen 8 MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 MovieTowne POS Screen 8, Q+A Mon 24 Sept, 6.30pm Mon 24 Sept, 4.00pm MovieTowne Tobago, Q+A MovieTowne Tobago Tue 25 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne San Fernando
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18+ AA PG 16+ PG-13 AA
FROM STEELPAN, THE INTERNATIONAL EAST WAVES EGGS BENEDICT FACEPAINT FLOATING INTO FIRE HOME INVASION HUSH-A-BYE NATIONAL INSTRUMENT TO MENS’ DAY STEELPAN, THE INDUSTRY Director: Di-Andre Caprice Director: Anthony Blackburn Director: Lezora Edwards Director: Olivia Wyatt Director: Andy Smart Director: Taromi Lourdes Joseph Director: Dr Jerome Teelucksingh 2018, Jamaica 2018, T+T 2018, T+T 2018, USA/ TT Director: Anne-Marie Harry 2018, T+T 2018, T+T 2018, T+T Experimental Short/ 1:22 minutes Narrative Short/ 30 minutes Narrative Short / 21 minutes Narrative Short / 9 minutes 2018, T+T Narrative Short / 42 minutes Narrative Short/ 30 minutes Documentary Short/ 17 minutes T+T PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE CARIBBEAN PREMIERE Documentary Short/ 20 mins T+T PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE
An unexpected moment that is fun T+T PREMIERE Algie likes young women but do Dave applies his makeup as he Nico has given it all up to sail the State Prosecutor Nathan Barr Rose and Dean are thrilled to be University lecturer Dr Jerome yet dangerous. they like him? Money and power prepares to act as Chief Hyarima in world. After visiting Tobago, during This documentary film features is spearheading an investigation expanding their family. However, Teelucksingh discusses the sweeten that deal although not a play about a massacre of the First the Carnival season, he finds a into corruption by Ian Clarke, a Rose notices all is not right at Thu 20 Sept, 7.00pm the novel implementation of a inspiration for the creation of Grundlos Kollektiv everyone gets what they were Peoples in Trinidad. He recently letter from Lola which leaves him Caribbean Vocational Qualifications prominent Member of Parliament. a time when she should be her International Men’s Day. Observed bargaining for. Algie’s peccadilloes found out that his deceased completely devastated. He is (CVQ) Steelpan Manufacturing pilot In an effort to prevent the happiest. After giving birth to Millie, on November 19, International require the utmost discretion, of grandfather or “nana” also had unable to contain himself, drinks to programme in secondary schools investigation moving forward, Ian the subtle signs and symptoms Men’s Day has been recognised by that he is certain. Amerindian ancestry. The role takes suppress his agony and then jumps across Trinidad + Tobago. hires goons to retrieve critical of postpartum depression (PPD) numerous countries throughout the on a deeper meaning as Dave into his dinghy. The weather pattern This is a vision of the Pan in Schools evidence from Nathan’s home. progress, bringing feelings of guilt region and the wider international struggles to find his identity and true takes a turn for the worse and he Coordinating Council (PSCC). and confusion. Rose is baffled as community. Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm colours in the canvas of life. loses his paddle. It highlights the vast potential of the signs go unnoticed by those MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A MovieTowne Tobago Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm the nation’s youth to help develop closest to her. The symptoms spiral Fri 21 Sept, 2.30pm Wed 19 Sept, 6.00pm Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm out of Rose’s control. Is it too late for MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A The University of the West Indies MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 the industry and contribute to the MovieTowne POS Screen 8, Q+A economic and cultural landscape Rose? Her baby? Her family? Fri 21 Sept, 3.30pm Sat 22 Sept, 7.00pm of T + T. MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A The University of the West Indies Sat 22 Sept, 6.30pm Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm Mon 24 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne Tobago Mon 24 Sept, 10.45 am MovieTowne San Fernando MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 MovieTowne Screen 7 Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS Screen 8, Q+A MovieTowne Tobago
16+ 14+ 14+ PG PG PG
FOR THE LOVE FROM A VALLEY FROM COLONIZATION FRAGMENTZ JUNI OF MONEY OF TALOL TO CAKE SOAP KINTO LA DIETA (The Diet) LADY IN THE RIVER
Director: Fidel Guerra + Lylah Director: Volney Smith Directors: Shineika Fareus, Yves Director: Zoë Davidson Director: Sharelly Emanuelson Director: Joshua Paul Director: Omar Camilo Ramos Director: Soraya Moolchan + Persad 2017, Barbados Pierre and Sam Simonds 2017, Jamaica/ Canada 2018, Curaçao 2018, Jamaica González Israel Ramjohn 2018, T+T Narrative Short/6 minutes 2018, Haiti Documentary Short / 26 minutes Narrative Short / 8 minutes Narrative Short / 16 minutes 2016, Cuba 2018, T+T Narrative Short/ 28 minutes T+T PREMIERE Documentary short/ 10 minutes T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE Narrative Short / 11 minutes Narrative Short / 11 minutes
T+T PREMIERE Haitian Creole with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles T+T PREMIERE An introspective look into how the A girl tries to unravel pieces of her T+T PREMIERE A group of 4 teenage boys hang out A young homeless Jamaican boy T+T PREMIERE issues of colourism, classism and After a night of delight at the casino fragmented memory. She soon together, but not everyone is feeling survives a brutal life with the little Haunted by the ghostly image of racism have influenced every level with her rich husband, Delilah realises not everything that is faced A heartbreaking look at the restavek at ease within the group. Juni, who money he makes cleaning car Lacking in self-confidence, Carlos a woman, a young man suffers a of society in Jamaica. Uncovering Lombardo awakes to find she’s in can be changed, but nothing can system of child servitude in Haiti. has equal potential for good and windscreens on the roadsides of finally gets the courage to ask his nervous breakdown. its roots in the systems of British the wrong house. Waking up next to be changed until it is faced. From a Valley of Talol presents bad, makes a choice and takes Kingston. Beaten, bruised and crush Sofia out for lunch. When colonial slavery, it also reveals Wed 19 Sept, 9.00pm Kirby, the guy whose winning streak victims’ tales of physical, emotional control of his future. broken, he witnesses a car crash she surprisingly agrees, he is sent the controversial influence that MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Q+A got everyone’s attention, was not Thu 20 Sept, 7.00pm and sexual abuse. But it is also and is faced with a choice that may into a panic as he realises his bank dancehall music and artistes have Fri 21 Sept, 3.30pm Mon 24 Sept, 3.30pm what she bargained for. And having Grundlos Kollektiv a story of hope, forgiveness and destroy his humanity and change account is empty. had on the rise of skin bleaching MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A a house guest who simply won’t restoration. his life forever. among black youths on the island. Sat 22 Sept, 3.30pm leave, is not what he bargained Sun 23 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 for. Now, they have to put their Sat 22 Sept, 1.00pm Fri 21 Sept, 5.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Sat 22 Sept, 3.30pm differences aside and work together The University of the West Indies MovieTowne San Fernando to get the life they both want. Fri 21 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm Mon 24 Sept, 4.00pm MovieTowne Tobago MovieTowne Tobago Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm Tue 25 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A MovieTowne San Fernando
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AA 14+ PG PG PG PG PG-13
LA LICORNE LA MORA Y EL COCUYO NOS VAMOS A PARIS LALO’S HOUSE LES MOTS QUE CHUCHOTENT MAS NANG BY NANG OFF GUARD (THE UNICORN) (THE BLACKBERRY AND NOS OMBRES (WE ARE GOING TO PARIS) THE FIREBEETLE) (OUR SHADOWS WHISPER) Director: Johann Nertomb Director: Kelley “Kali” Chatman Director: Jessy Schuster Director: Richard Fung Director: David Norris Director: Kyle Chin 2018, Guadeloupe 2018, USA/ Haiti Director: Isaías JJ Perez Director: Samuel Tanda 2017, Guadeloupe 2017, Canada/ T+T 2017, Puerto Rico 2018, Jamaica Narrative Short / 18 minutes Narrative Short / 26 minutes 2016, Venezuela 2017, Guadeloupe Documentary short/56 minutes Documentary Short / 41 minutes Narrative Short / 9 minutes Documentary Short / 8 minutes French with English subtitles T+T PREMIERE Animated Short / 10 minutes Narrative Short/ 26 minutes French with English subtitles T+T PREMIERE Spanish with English subtitles T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE Nang is a true survivor at 93. She T+T PREMIERE French with English subtitles Eleven-year-old Manouchka and was born in a rural village in Moruga, Two bandits break into the home of As a couple’s relationship begins to T+T PREMIERE her younger sister Phara are on A tale from an old Pemón woman Carnival - one word, many Trinidad in 1920s to Chinese/French/ Ever since she was a little girl, an innocent family only to encounter unravel, the love of their daughter African and Amerindian parents. and her beloved stuffed toy their way to school when they are about a BlackBerry who falls in love Julia, a young mother, tries to traditions. Although Carnival shares Rosita has dreamt of visiting Paris a series of strange occurrences. kidnapped. They awake in a girl’s similar historical roots throughout She has had many roles - dancer, but never had the money to go. becomes the unexpected link that with a Firebeetle. The Firebettle preserve the unity of her family. model, singer, maid, nurse and even keeps them together. orphanage surrounded by nuns rejects the BlackBerry because However, tragic memories emerge the Caribbean, the difference Now in her eighties, she has fallen Wed 19 Sept, 6.00pm cinema operator. Director Richard MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 but this is no safe place. Tortured, she is old, hunched over and with and give Julia worrying anxieties. often lies in the manifestation of on hard times and may lose her Fung lovingly documents his second Tue 25 Sept, 3.30pm Sun 23 Sept, 6.30pm starved and forced to perform no leaves to show. As time passes, the celebration. Discover how the cousin as she retraces her steps to house to a foreclosure. Along with MovieTowne Tobago MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 unspeakable acts, Manouchka the BlackBerry is reborn and the Sun 23 Sept, 3.30pm island of Guadeloupe is linked to the many highlights and heartbreaks her clumsy but loveable husband Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm will do all she can to save her little Firebeetle has a change of heart MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Trinidad + Tobago through the of her life along her journey from Port Gonzalo, she devises an outrageous MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 sister’s innocence. and wants to know her secret. history of Carnival and how this of Spain to Caracas to New York and plan to rob a bank in order to save modern celebration acts as a bridge New Mexico. her home. Sat 22 Sept, 1.00pm Fri 21 Sept, 10.45am between two. MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Fri 21 Sept, 2.30pm Thu 20 Sept, 9.00pm The University of the West Indies Tue 25 Sept, 10.45m Sat 22 Sept, 1.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Fri 21 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Tue 25 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm MovieTowne San Fernando Mon 24 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8
16+ PG-13 PG PG-13 AA PG
OSEYI AND THE OYA AND THE RISE OF PARA ELORZA…SIN PARANOIA: CRIME IN LIVE BAIT MANGROVES MANUMISSION MARCH OF THE MOKOS MASQUERADES THE SUPORISHA CANCIÓN (TO ELORZA… TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO WITHOUT A SONG) Director: Dominic Boos Director: Teneille Newallo Director: Jorge Márquez Director: Kim Johnson Director: Alwyn Bully Director: Nosa Igbinedion Director: Riyadh Rahaman Director: María Fernanda Martínez 2018, T+T 2018, T+T 2017, Venezuela 2018, T+T 2018, Dominica 2014, UK 2018, T+T 2018, Venezuela Narrative Short / 24 minutes Narrative Short / 10 minutes Narrative Short / 8 minutes Documentary short/ 21 minutes Narrative Short/ 27 minutes Narrative Short / 13 minutes Narrative Short/ 8 minutes Narrative Short / 8 minutes T+T PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE Spanish with English subtitles WORLD PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE Spanish with English subtitles T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE Mervyn is a seemingly innocent A man goes in search of This documentary on the stilt A young boy comes of age when An innocent girl with a supernatural An encounter between a resident
fisherman living off his catch in something mysterious in the A hired assassin is tormented by walking Carnival art in Trinidad he conquers his fear of the Carnival gift is kidnapped and held hostage at home and a supposed electrician Valentin is on a mission to write a Trinidad. When the brother of a local Trinidadian mangroves, unravelling feelings of guilt as he remembers + Tobago centres on head of costumes of his village, and learns by a sacrificial cult in London. To simply coming to repair a broken song for a girl he likes, who lives in drug lord makes an offer he can’t a supernatural world as he races the caring and cautious words of Keylemanjahro cultural group two family secrets. rescue her, her protector Adesuwa light, however his actions say Elorza Town. On his way there, he refuse, Mervyn’s past demons come back to safety, before the sun sets. his mother. On the way to his latest and “King of the Moko Jumbies” must evoke the mythical powers otherwise. The resident becomes Wed 19 Sept, 3.30pm starts to panic and jumps off of the back to haunt him and a sacrifice hit, he reflects on the reasons he Glen “Dragon” DeSouza. He not of the ancient deities of the West increasingly aware of his behaviour, MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 bus in the middle of nowhere, so must be made to ensure that he Fri 21 Sept, 8.30pm fell into a life of crime and seeks a only helps to revive the art form African Orishas to transform into the questioning his intentions and MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A but his talent and teaching of the Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm fearsome warrior goddess Oya. he can get more time to complete authenticity and wonders if he may survives his decision. pathway to redemption. MovieTowne San Fernando Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm craft inspires youths, encourages the song. At the bus stop, he be walking into a trap, or simply Fri 21 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A Wed 19 Sept, 8.30pm other groups to emerge across the meets a number of different people, being paranoid. MovieTowne San Fernando Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne Tobago country and attracts students from who all share their different love Sat 22 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A Thu 20 Sept, 6.00pm across the globe. experiences, which makes Valentin MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 second guess what he is doing. Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm Wed 19 Sept, 3.30pm Tue 25 Sept, 6.30pm MovieTowne San Fernando Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A MovieTowne Tobago, Q+A MovieTowne San Fernando Thu 20 Sept, 3.30pm Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 MovieTowne Tobago Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm MovieTowne San Fernando
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PG-13 PG PG AA PG PG PG
¿QUÉ REMEDIO? SIN AYO PROTECTED ZONE RUN SAFE SPACES SENSING TRAVEL: SHATTERED SOLSTICE LA PARRANDA A SERIES OF DECONSTRUCTING (NO GOODBYE) (THE PARRANDAS) MOMENTS WITHIN AESTHETICS Director: Roger Lemus Director: Francisco Rojas Directors: Jean-Claude Director: Imran St Brice Director: Elizabeth Francisco Director: Anthony Xavier 2016, France/ Martinique 2017, Dominican Republic Cournand, Rhonda ChanSoo, 2018, St Lucia 2018, Curaçao Director: Daniela Muñoz Director: Dean Arlen 2018, Venezuela Narrative Short / 9 minutes Narrative Short / 2 minutes Vincent O’Neil + Isaiah McClean Narrative Short / 5 minutes Narrative Short / 12 minutes 2017, Cuba 2018, T+T Narrative Short / 6 minutes French with English Subtitles T+T PREMIERE 2018, T+T T+T PREMIERE Papiamento with English subtitles Documentary Short / 61 minutes Documentary Short/ 17 minutes Spanish with English subtitles T+T PREMIERE Documentary Short/27 minutes T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE Spanish with English subtitles T+T PREMIERE In 2017, Hurricane Maria trashed T+T PREMIERE A lonely woman suspects that her Francis is a young black man living T+T PREMIERE parts of the Dominican Republic. male friend has broken into her As Flor Marie reflects on the last Caught up in the football match on in Paris who proudly wears his Sensing Travel is an art film in inter- Left in a state of shambles, Run In 2017, youth outreach NGO, 2 home but the pieces of the story do time she saw her lover, her niece dreadlocks and love for Rastafarian La Parranda has been one of the sectionality, converging aesthetics TV, Miguel ignores his wife’s request shows the extent a father will go in Cents Movement, toured secondary not all fit together. rummages through her stuff to find culture. On the streets he is viewed most popular traditional festivities into a political performance of global to take off the stove. His young with suspicion and taunted by racist in Remedios, Cuba. However, this order to provide for his child. schools in Trinidad + Tobago the last gift he gave her. He was one daughter volunteers to do so and it aesthetics. Wed 19 Sept, 8.30pm remarks. He catches the attention friendly competition that challenges engaging the nation’s youth on the of the construction workers who suddenly becomes the longest day Thu 19 Sept 8.30pm MovieTowne Tobago of the police who are certain to neighbouring provinces in the issue of gender-based violence Thu 20 Sept, 7.00pm died in the Juliana Bridge disaster in of the year. Miguel and his wife are MovieTowne San Fernando Thu 20 Sept, 6.00pm arrest him for drug possession creation of floats, plaza works and using spoken word poetry, theatre Grundlos Kollektiv Curaçao on November 06, 1967. unable to cope with his negligence. but their stereotyping may have Sat 22 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 fireworks is faced with its own and talkback conversations. deceived them. MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm Thu 20 Sept, 9.00pm challenge in keeping the tradition MovieTowne San Fernando Wed 19 Sept, 8.30pm Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 alive. MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Sat 22 Sept, 1.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A Tue 25 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Thu 20 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7
16+ 16+ PG PG AA 14+
STAGING THE SUN, SEA AND SCIENCE SAM SAME OLD SHIT SCARRED SCARS OF OUR SUSTAINABILL THE DELIVERER MOTHERS’ DREAMS REVOLUTION - TRINIDAD AFTER OIL
Director: Stephanie Camacho Directors: Robert MacFarlane Director: Zachary Bharat Director: Meschida Philip Directors: Vincent O’Neil + Isaiah Director: Raymond Ramcharitar Director: Jabari Daniel Director: Paul Pryce Casillas 2018, T+T 2018, T+T 2018, Grenada/USA McClean + Rhonda Chan Soo 2018, T+T 2018, T+T 2018, T+T 2017, Puerto Rico Narrative Short / 5 minutes Narrative short/ 6 minutes Documentary Short / 12 minutes 2018, T+T Documentary Short/ 40 minutes Documentary Short/ 8 minutes Narrative Short / 14 minutes Documentary Short/ 35 minutes WORLD PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE CARIBBEAN PREMIERE Narrative Short / 10 minutes T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE Spanish with English subtitles This film examines the work of three This film is about the importance of Joseph lives in a tiny fishing village T+T PREMIERE When a tempered rock icon is Words have the ability to make or Growing up with absentee mothers Trinidadian scientists, microbiologist confronted with an unlikely souvenir break you. Choose yours wisely. on the island of Grenada, three An arts intervention project Dr Adesh Ramsubhag, computer treating the world right. It highlights that is under threat from a local Sam is a young transgender man from his wild past, he is enticed to people recount their emotional transforms the lives of 15 teenaged scientist Prof Patrick Hosein, the manner in which we should care government official, ignoring the in Puerto Rico, where the trans return to his true nature. Thu 19 Sept 8.30pm stories of abandonment, girls in Trinidad + Tobago through and medical researcher Prof about the world, in the same way we livelihood of fisherfolk in exchange community is still a subject of MovieTowne San Fernando psychological damage and the socially conscious theatre making. Paul Teelucksingh as alternatives care about important people in our for corporate gain. A chance discrimination and prejudice. After Wed 19 Sept, 8.30pm Sat 22 Sept, 8.30pm attempts to reconnect with their This is the pilot program of Girl Be to Trinidad’s oil economy. The lives. Our actions today can affect meeting with Shane may provide the MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A several failed attempts to secure MovieTowne Tobago estranged parents who migrated Heard T + T. documentary shows how the work the world that we live in tomorrow. solution that Joseph and his village of these three scientists, and others, a job, Sam is forced to confront a Thu 20 Sept, 6.00pm abroad for work. need but leaves him with a difficult MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm as well as the organisation which Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm life-changing decision and choose decision to make. MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A brought them together, the Anthony MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A what aspects of himself he’s willing Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm Fri 21 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne San Fernando MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Fri 21 Sept, 6.00pm to sacrifice in order to survive. Excellence, could create a path MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm MovieTowne San Fernando to economic salvation based on Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm local knowledge and untapped Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 sustainable resources. MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A Sat 22 Sept, 5.00pm University of the West Indies, Q+A Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A
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THE FIREWALKERS THE PURSUIT OF VWÉ KAFÉ THE GRASS MEN THREE MINUTES TTIT 40TH ANNIVERSARY UNBOUND VENUS AND MAGNET OF KALI TRUTH @ 125 (REAL COFFEE)
Director: Orlando Din Chong Directors: Vonnie Roudette + Director: Oyetayo Raymond Director: Juliette McCawley Director: Leroy Smart Director: David Johnson Director: Elspeth Duncan Directors: Cassandra Joseph + 2018, T+T Aiko Roudette Ojoade 2018, T+T 2018, T+T 2017, Jamaica 2018, T+T Vincent Cox Documentary Short/ 23 minutes 2017, St. Vincent + The 2018, T+T Narrative Short/ 5 minutes Documentary Short / 30 minutes Narrative Short / 28 minutes Narrative Short / 10 minutes 2018, T+T T+T PREMIERE Grenadines Documentary Short/ 40 minutes WORLD PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE Documentary Short/16 minutes The most spectacular ritual of Documentary Short/ 13 minutes WORLD PREMIERE The Twelve Tribes of Israel Trinidad (TTIT) Venus is a happy pup, who like T+T PREMIERE Indian immigrants after they left the T+T PREMIERE A couple’s three-minute wait for celebrated 40 years as a spiritually Detective-Sgt Mia Richardson is on many other dogs, loves to run and estates was the firepass ceremony, From the Belmont Orphanage in a pregnancy test becomes a guided, non-profit organization in 2017. the hunt for Rimmer, a criminal boss play. However, Venus is a Doggess An elderly villager makes coffee the in which devotees walked through A short documentary set in Her 1892, a nun and twenty girls begin ticking time bomb which sets off Founded on the Rastafarian teachings of who runs a child prostitution and of love, who proves that no matter traditional way. blazing flames. Sometimes Majesty’s Prisons, Kingstown, printing the Catholic News, leaving a minefield of unresolved issues Vernon “The Prophet Gad” Carrington, human trafficking ring in Jamaica. how different we are, we can still associated with Hosay, the ritual St Vincent and the Grenadines. a legacy for the Catholic Church in in this uproariously funny comedy the brothers and sisters recount their On her mission, she crosses paths be friends. One day, Magnet comes Wed 19 Sept, 3.30pm enjoyed widespread support, until This documentary describes the Trinidad. This artistic film celebrates short. struggles of discrimination in the early with the rogue soldier Roman, who into her life and an unlikely bond MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A in the 1950s the growth of a more days. They speak about how they nature and results of the most the joys of that nostalgic journey wants to violently kill Rimmer and develops. Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm perserved to inspire new members staid Hinduism led to its decline. In Thu 20 Sept, 9.00pm MovieTowne San Fernando recent decades, however, firepass successful rehabilitation program which embraces the fate of a nation to study the bible and keep alive their avenge the rape of his little sister. to be implemented in St Vincent’s in transition while grappling with MovieTowne POS Screen 7, Q+A Their intertwined journeys force Mia Sun 23 Sept, 6.30pm Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm has been revived as part of the dreams of returning to the motherland of MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A prisons. historical truths – discontentment Sun 23 Sept, 8.30pm to confront her own scarred sexual MovieTowne Tobago, Q+A emotionally-charged Shakti pujas MovieTowne Tobago Ethiopia. that triggered the 1937 labour riots, past and for Roman to finally under- Mon 24 Sept, 3.30pm held in kali temples throughout Wed 19 Sept, 3.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A Sat 22 Sept, 6.00pm discrimination that provoked the Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm stand what he is truly fighting for. Trinidad. MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 1970 Black Power Revolution and Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm Wed 19 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne San Fernando Wed 19 Sept, 3.30pm Wed 19 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A discord that instigated the 1990 MovieTowne San Fernando coup attempt. MovieTowne POS Screen 7 Mon 24 Sept, 6.30pm Thu 20 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne Tobago Mon 24 Sept, 6.00pm Sat 22 Sept, 7.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A MovieTowne Tobago Sat 22 Sept, 10.45am The University of the West Indies Tue 25 Sept, 6.00pm Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A MovieTowne POS, Screen 8 Tue 25 Sept, 3.30pm MovieTowne San Fernando MovieTowne POS Screen 7
14+ PG AA PG-13 PG PG-13 AA
THE TWIN TRIBUTE TIFFANY’S TRASH TO TREASURE WE WILL LIVE WINDOWS AND WALLS YUH TOO SWEET(II) ISLAND STATE TO A NATIVE SON
Director: Kirt Carmona Directors: Zhara Honore + Director: Ayesha Jordan Director: Bhoe Tewarie Director: Pascal Pernix Director: Charlene Modeste Director: Adam Patterson 2018, T+T Sean Esser + Caitlin Chiusano 2018, T+T 2007, T+T 2017, Cayman Islands 2018, T+T 2018, Barbados Documentary Short / 30 minutes 2018, US Narrative Short / 3 minutes Documentary Short/ 38 minutes Narrative short/ 24 minutes Narrative Short/14 minutes Narrative Short/ 4 minutes T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE T+T PREMIERE Animated Short/ 5 minutes T+T PREMIERE This documentary delves deeply into CARIBBEAN PREMIERE As part of a tribute to the the world of Trinidad + Tobago’s A girl begins to understand the late V S Naipaul, Bhoe After the small plane she took with Trevaughn and Hannah Rocke are A poetic rumination on the ruins hip hop/rap music scene, from its A planet conquering Alien who great value of the trash she throws Tewarie in conversation with her lover hoping to start a better experiencing financial hardship as a of the lost sugar industry that is inception in the 1980s to present mistakes a high school mean girl away when she comes in contact Trinidad+Tobago’s most illustrious life elsewhere crashed during a couple, so they sublet rooms of their replaced by another, not so savoury day. It focuses on how local for the ruler of Earth and competes with a poverty-stricken boy. author on the occasion of the 2007 violent storm, Elia must survive in the house. Trevaughn Rocke is very industry. audiences relate to the music, the against her for the Prom Queen UWI Laureate celebrations. unknown jungle she’s stranded in. physically and emotionally abusive struggle of local hip hop artistes to Crown. Sun 23 Sept, 1.00pm to his wife. The focus is usually Thu 20 Sept, 7.00pm, Grundlos Kollektiv get radio and television airplay and MovieTowne POS, Screen 7, Q+A Mon 24 Sept, 8.30pm Sat 22 Sept, 3.30pm on the hurt of the victim, but what the use of the Trinbagonian accent Fri 21 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 about those who have to hear the as opposed to an American accent MovieTowne San Fernando Sat 22 Sept, 3.30pm abuse on a continuous basis? They MovieTowne San Fernando while rapping. It features interviews Sat 22 Sept, 6.00pm each have to deal with their own from well-known members of MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A pain in this situation. the hip hop community such as Tue 25 Sept, 6.30pm Chromatics, Make It Hapn and DJ MovieTowne Tobago Sun 23 Sept, 8.30pm Jus Jase. Tue 25 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne Tobago MovieTowne POS, Screen 7 Mon 24 Sept, 1.00pm Sat 22 Sept, 8.30pm MovieTowne POS, Screen 8, Q+A MovieTowne San Fernando, Q+A Sun 23 Sept, 6.00pm MovieTowne POS Screen 8, Q+A
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GRgrundlosUNDLOS kollektiv KOLLEKTIV art films
Special events at Grundlos Kollektiv In collaboration with CULTUREGO Magazine ANIMA REGALIAS SENSING TRAVEL: IMPERFECT APPARITION A SERIES OF DECONSTRUCTING Grundlos Kollektiv is a platform for progressive minds of any field or discipline, who are passionate about The Art and Cultural magazine of Trinidad and Tobago, is an Director: Rodell Warner MOMENTS WITHIN AESTHETICS introducing new ideas, concepts and perspectives - being socially or politically influential with their art online platform and printed publication promoting the Arts and 2017, T+T Director: Dean Arlen 2018, T+T form, whatever it may be. Currently managed by Culturego Magazine, Grundlos Kollektiv is an inviting, creative expression from Trinidad and Tobago as well as the Documentary Short/ 2 minutes enabling and flexible open-plan space in the center of Port of Spain. It is a home for a community of minds Caribbean. Culturego Magazine is committed to sustainability, Documentary Short/ 17 minutes - different and alike - to create (Art exhibitions, film screenings, fashion shows, discussions, educational collaboration and ethical partnerships to achieve our goal: T+T PREMIERE, Q+A EAST WAVES talks, yoga classes, social events) and to share their work with a diverse audience. making Culture accessible to all. Director: Di-Andre Caprice Culturego Magazine is proud to partner with the ttff this year, to 2018, Jamaica YUH TOO SWEET present ART FILM. Experimental Short/ 1:22 minutes Director: Adam Patterson Culture is all. ART FILM W.E. TALK: The FUTURE is FEMALE Activism Day T+T PREMIERE 2018, Barbados curated by Culturego Magazine in partnership with Women. Everywhere. Sun 23 Sep, 3.00pm Narrative Short/ 4 minutes Thu 20 Sept, 7.00pm Sat 22 Sept, 8.30pm Filmmaker Rhonda Chan Soo takes a fresh FRAGMENTZ T+T PREMIERE Thu 20 Sept, 7.00pm, Grundlos Kollektiv Films with Art. Film as Art. Art as film. Meet and greet Filmmaker Sharon Lewis, look at activism in Trinidad & Tobago today, Director: Volney Smith A selection of short films from Caribbean Director - Brown Girl Begins led by Girl Be Heard TT and The 2 Cents 2017, Barbados + Funk night with DJ LBEE visual artists followed by a conversation with RSVP: [email protected] Movement. Narrative Short/6 minutes T+T PREMIERE Artist Dean Arlen. Funk night with DJ L Bee. culturegomag.com
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jafta propella
New Shorts Fri 21 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 7, Q+A from Jamaica Fri 21 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago WORLD PREMIERE Sun 23 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne San Fernando
AGWE FLIGHT LOVERS Director: Ina Sotirova Directors: Kia Moses + Adrian McDonald Director: Mezan Akoya Disaster strikes when a young, Afro- From the little island of big dreams comes When two couples are trapped in an elevator, Caribbean high Priestess goes against her a little boy from an inner city community being forced to examine themselves and their intuition. This unorthodox coming of age with the larger-than-life dream of becoming relationships may be the only way out. story explores Afro-Caribbean ancestry, a Jamaican astronaut. On a deeper level, history and spirituality. this film is also a story about space. A lack SAFE HARBOUR of space, a longing for space and what Director: Kaiel Eytle happens when various life paths, moving A girl is pulled from the brink of death by a in different directions, interact in the same mysterious young boy. Discovering his amazing space. abilities, the two form a bond that is tested as they uncover the dark secrets that dwell within the harbour that they call home.
Directors’ bios
Ina Sotirova Adrian McDonald Ina Sotirova is a storyteller and explorer with a Adrian McDonald is a fine arts photographer and passion for the world’s diverse cultures, their film director who is also a calculated risk taker unique traditions and expressions. Her path of with deep knowledge of the arts and film being international journalism and photography led her a past student of Media Technology Institute. to documentary filmmaking during her time in He currently has one award winning short film, New York City. Cozenage which won 4 of 5b eligible awards In 2011, her debut doc, freedom2dance, at the UWI GATFFEST in 2014. He has spent received the Du-Pont/Judy F Chrichton the past four years developing his photography award for visual storytelling. The seed for her brand whilst amassing the necessary tools to first animated film, Agwe, was also planted stimulate his film career. During that time he has back then, but the story naturally brought her released over three short films, Still Human, New to the Caribbean. Originally from Bulgaria, Slaves and The Universe to his niche audience on Ina now lives in Jamaica, where she also various platforms. teaches, mentors and makes films at the UWI Community Film Project. Mezan Akoya Mezan Ayoka is a writer and filmmaker. She Kia Moses attended the Los Angeles Film School in 2008. Armed with a suitcase full of banana chips, On returning to Jamaica, Mezan co-directed Kia left Jamaica to major in Advertising at the short film Grow Jamaica Grow that placed The School Of Visual Arts (SVA) in New second in the RBC Make a film in 24 Hours York. In 2007 she graduated with Honours, Competition held at the 2012 Reggae Film multiple awards and was ranked in the ‘top Festival. She wrote and directed Ding, a short 100 Advertising Students in the U.S.A.’ After film that screened at the Kingston on the Edge working at ad agencies in New York and Urban Art Festival (2013) and at GATFFEST in London, plus interning for music video director June (2017). Summer School, a TV pilot written ‘X’, she returned home with a passion to pour by Mezan, was awarded a Certificate of Merit everything back into the Jamaican creative in the nationally recognized Jamaica Cultural industry. Since then, this ‘Imaginationista’ Development Commission’s (JCDC) Creative (who clearly also makes up her own words) Writing Competition. co-founded TCP Those Creative People and now spends her days switching gears between Kaiel Eytle conceptualizing ideas, creative direction, Kaiel has been involved in creative production for copywriting and product development for TCP’s over 15 years. He founded Reelvibez Studios own product line – which includes Jamaican alongside David Mullings, through which he greeting cards and ‘One Bag Ah Tings’ has produced a variety of productions for the (literally). After years of writing TV ads, she is screen in his role as Chief Creative Officer. excited to finally add screenplay writing and When not actively in production with Reelvibez, directing to this list. Flight is her first short film. Kaiel also works as the Technical Manager at the UWI Community Film Project, where he also teaches filmmaking skills to people from at risk and underprivileged communities from across Jamaica. Safe Harbour marks Kaiel’s first steps into directing fictional narratives, something he has always been drawn to as a creator.
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The Blackberry and the Firebeetle 10’ Tiffanys 5’ + From Steelpan, The National 10.45 am MovieTowne POS screen 7 The Tempest 120’ Le Reve Français pt 1 The Pursuit of Truth @125 40’ Le Reve Français pt 2. + Looking for Zorro 82’ Instrument to Steepan, the Industry 20’
Trash to Treasure 2’ + Back in Times 6’ Int’l Mens Day 17’ 1.00 pm MovieTowne POS screen 7 + Disposable 12’ +Sustainibill 8’ + Sun + Staging the Revolution 28’ Sea and Science: Trinidad after Oil 40’ + Safe Spaces 35’
Vwe Kafe 15’ + March of the Mokos To Elorza Without a Song 25’ + La Juni 8’ + Studio Drummie and the La Dieta 10’+ We Will Live 24’ Floating into Fire 9’ 3.30 pm MovieTowne POS screen 7 21’ + Oseyi and the Masquerades 27’ Pather Panchali 126’ Offguard 7’ + Unbound 28+ El Chata 75’ Parranda 61’ History of Rock Steady Music 90’ + A Night of Calypso 80’ + Unfinished Sentences 98’ + The Firewalkers of Kali 23’
The Deliverer 14’ + Children of the Vwe Kafe 15’ + Mangroves 14’ Offguard 7’ + Unbound 28 The Grass Men 15’ Q+A Cross my Heart 13’ 6.00 pm MovieTowne POS screen 7 Carnival Messiah 128’ Incursion 24’ +JAFTA PROPELLA 50’ + March of the Mokos 21’ No Goodbye 12’ + In the Fade’ 106’ + El Chata 75’ + La Causa 100’ + Las Hijas de Abril 103’ Q+As + The Firewalkers of Kali 23’
9:00pm Three Minutes 6’ + Solstice Run 2’+Scarred 5’ Tribute to a Native Son 38’ + The Strange Tiffany’s 5’ + Oya The Rise of the 8.30 pm MovieTowne POS screen 7 Back in Times 6’ + Hero 110’ Q+A 6’+ We Are Going to Paris 8’ Angela 12’ + Cocote 106’ And Suddenly the Dawn 195’ Q+A + Johnny 100 Pesos 100’ Q+A Luck of V S Naipaul 78’ Q+A Suporisha 13’ + Brown Girl Begins 84’ + Mama 78’
The Blackberry and the Firebeetle 10’ + 10.45 am MovieTowne POS screen 8 Cymberline Anthony and Cleopatra The Tempest 120’ Looking for Zorro 82’
The Unicorn 18’ + Windows and Walls 14’ Potected Zone 9’ +From a Valley of Sam 10’+ Duo Impacto 12’ 1.00 pm MovieTowne POS screen 8 + Cross My Heart 13’ + Breaking the Cycle Talol 11’ + Lalo’s House 25’ + Mas 56’ + Stay Quiet 20’ + Hush a Bye 30’ 60’ Q+As
Paranoia: Crime in T+T 8’ Caroni 8’ + Scars of our Mothers’ 3.00pm TTIT 40th Anniversary 30’ Q+A Doubout 20’ Our Shadows Whisper 26’ Venus and Magnet 8’ + Lady in the River 11’ 9:00pm Solstice 6’ 3.30 pm MovieTowne POS screen 8 + Kinto 15’ + For the Love of Money 28’ Dreams 12’ + Facepaint 21’ + Bigger Than Africa 95’ + Le Reve Francais 1 90’ + Le Reve Francais 2 90’ + Nang by Nang 40’ Q+As + We are Going to Paris 8’ + Mama + Home Invasion 42’ + Nang by Nang 40’
Black Doll 4’ + From Colonialisation Tiffany’s 5’ + Oya and the Rise of the Paranoia: Crime in T+T 8’ Floating into Fire 9’ Shattered 5’ + Manumission 8’ Twin Island State 30’ TTIT 40th Anniversary 30’ 6.00 pm MovieTowne POS screen 8 to Cake Soap 25’ + Black Hair 20’ Suporisha 13’ + Eggs Benedict 30’ + Unfinished Sentences 98’ Q+A + Same Old Shit 5’ +Hall 95’ + Dance Hall’s Asian Ambassadors 44’ + Bigger Than Africa 95’ + 3 Women 52’ Q+As + Brown Girl Begins 84’ +Home Invasion 42’ Q+As
Three Minutes 5’+ The Deliverer 14’ Cross my Heart 14’ Mangroves 14’ 8.30 pm MovieTowne POS screen 8 No Goodbye 12’ + In the Fade’ 106’ CHC shorts + Mommie 140’ Kinto 16’ + Sprinter Q+A + Mangroves 13’ + For The Love of Money Angela 12’ + Cocote 106’ + Las Hijas de Abril 103’ + Looking for Zorro 82’ Q+A 28’ + Live Bait 24’ Q+As
MovieTowne Caroni 8’+ Scars of our Mothers’ Vwe Kafe 15’ + March of the Mokos 21’ 1.00 pm san fernando Dreams 12’ + Facepaint + Oseyi and the Masquerades 27’ screen 4 + Nang by Nang 40’ + The Firewalkers of Kali 23’
MovieTowne La Dieta 10’ + We Will Live 24’ 3.30 pm san fernando Carnival Messiah 128’ Eggs Benedict 30’ +A Night of Calypso 80’ screen 4
MovieTowne Tiffany’s 5’ Black Doll 4’ + From Colonialisation to TTIT 40th Anniversary 30’ Floating into Fire 9’ + Lady in the Offguard 7’ + Unbound 28 Solstice 6+ We are Going to Paris 8’ Venus and Magnet 8’ + The Deliverer 14’ 6.00 pm san fernando + Oya The Rise of the Suporisha 13’ Cake Soap 25’ + Black Hair 20’ + Bigger Than Africa 95’ River 11’ + Unfinished Sentences 98’ + El Chata 75’ + Mama + FacePaint 21’ + Live Bait 24’ screen 4 + Brown Girl Begins 84’ +3 Women 52’
MovieTowne Paranoia: Crime in T+T 8’+ Kinto 15’ Run 2’ + Scarred 5’ + Johnny 100 Twin Island State 30’ + Dance Hall’s Children of the Incursion 24’ Shattered 5’ + Manumission 8.30 pm san fernando + For the Love of Money 28’ Angela 12’ + Cocote 106’ Back in Times 6’ + Hero 110’ Pesos: 20 Years and a Day 120’ Asian Ambassadors 44’ + JAFTA PROPELLA + Same Old Shit + Hall 95’ screen 4 + Home Invasion 42’
11.00 pm MOVIETOWNE TOBAGO The Tempest 120’ Looking for Zorro 80’
Black Doll 4’ + From Colonialisation to Cake 4.00 pm MOVIETOWNE TOBAGO - Soap 25’ + Black Hair 20’ + 3 Women 52’
Back in Times 6’Q+A + Venus and Magnet 6.00 pm 6.00pm TTIT 40’ Mangroves 13’ + The Deliverer 14 Venus and Magnet 8’ Q+A + A Night of Tiffany’s 5’ + Oya and the Rise of the 6.30 pm MOVIETOWNE TOBAGO Unbound 28’ + El Chata 75’ 8’Q+A + March of the Mokos 21’ + Carnival Messiah 128’ + Bigger than Africa 85’ + Live Bait 24’+ Hush a Bye Calypso 83’ Suporisha 13’ + Brown Girl Begins 84’ Firewalkers of Kali 23’
Back in Times 6’ 3 Minutes 5’ + The Unicorn 18’ Paranoia: Crime in T+T 8’ + Kinto 15’ Shattered 5’ + Manumission 8’ Children of the Incursion 24’ 8.30 pm MOVIETOWNE TOBAGO Offguard 7’ + Cocote 106’ + Studio Drummie and the History of + Windows and Walls 14’ + For the Love of Money 28’ Floating into Fire + Hall 95’ + Same Old Shit 6’ + Hall 95’ + JAFTA PROPELLA Rock Steady Music 90’ + Breaking the Cycle 60’ + Home Invasion 42’
Yuh Too Sweet 4’ + Fragmentz 6’ + East Waves 1’+ Sensing Travel: A 7.00pm GRUNDLOS KOLLKETIV Series of Deconstructing Moments Within Aesthetics 17’ Q+A
36 18-25 september ttfilmfestival.com 37 ttff/18FESTIVAL festival GUIDE guide Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening. love. film.
time venue friday 21 sept saturday 22 sept
Caroni 8’+ Scars of Our Mothers’ Back in Times 6’+ Studio Drummie THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST 2.30 pm Dreams 12’ + Facepaint 21’ and the History of Rock Steady INDIES + Nang by Nang 40’ Music 90’
Black Doll 4’ + From Colonialisation to THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST Sun Sea and Science: Trinidad After 5.00 pm Cake Soap 25 + Black Hair 20’ INDIES Oil 40’ + A Mauritian Mobius 61’ + 3 Women 52’
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST Floating into Fire + Unbound 28’ 7.00pm Offguard 7’ + La Causa 100’ INDIES + El Chata 75’
7.00pm BIG BLACK BOX Run Free
index of films
22 3 Women 25 From Steelpan the National 29 March of the Mokos 18 Studio Drummie One and the 22 A Mauritian Mobius Instrument to Steelpan the Industry 30 Mas History of Rock Steady Music 22 Angela 17 Hall 24 Mommy 29 Sun, Sea and Science - Trinidad 22 Anima Regalias’ Imperfect Apparition 17 Hero 24 Nang by Nang After Oil 22 Back in Times 25 Home Invasion 24 Nos Vamos pa Paris (We’re going 29 Sustainabill 18 Bigger than Africa 25 Hush-A-Bye 30 to Paris) 29 The Deliverer 22 Black Doll 25 International Men’s Day 24 Offguard 30 The Firewalkers of Kali 22 Black Hair 19 In the Fade 30 Oseyi and the Masquerades 30 The Grass Men 26 Breaking The Cycle 35 Jafta Propella Oya Rise of the Suporisha 30 The Pursuit of Truth@125 26 Brown Girl Begins 19 Johnny 100 Pesos: Twenty Years 30 Paranoia: Crime in Trinidad and 21 The Strange Luck of V S Naipaul 16 Buscando al Zorro (Looking for Zorro) and a Day 35 Tobago 30 The Twin Island State 19 Carnival Messiah 25 Juni 25 Pather Panchali 30 Three Minutes 23 Caroni 25 Kinto 30 Protected Zone 30 Tiffany’s 23 Children of the Incursion 19 La Causa (The Cause) 25 ¿Qué Remedio? La Parranda (The 27 To Elorza...Without a Song 16 Cocote 25 La Dieta (The Dieta) 30 Parrandas) 30 Trash to Treasure 27 Conversations with Naipaul 25 Lady in the River 18 Run 30 Tribute to a Native Son 23 Cross My Heart 26 La Mora Y El Cocuyo (The 25 Run Free 31 TTIT 40th Anniversary Documentary 23 Dancehall’s Asian Ambassadors Blackberry And The Firebeetle) 18 Safe Spaces 21 Una Noche de Calypso 23 Disposable 26 La Licorne (The Unicorn) Sam (A Night of Calypso) 23 Doubout 26 Lalo’s House 34 Same Old Shit 31 Unbound 23 Duo Impacto 20 Las Hijas de Abril (April’s Daughters) 30 Scarred 18 Unfinished Sentences 24 East Waves 26 Les Mots Que Chuchotent Nos 30 Scars of our Mothers’ Dreams 31 Venus and Magnet 24 Eggs Benedict Ombres (Our Shadows Whisper) 31 Sensing Travel: A Series of 31 Vwé Kafé (Real Coffee) 16 El Chata (The Sparring Partner) 17 Le Rêve Français (We had a Dream) 18 Deconstructing Moments within 31 We Will Live 24 Facepaint Pt 1 31 Aesthetics 31 Windows and Walls 24 Floating into Fire 17 Le Rêve Français (We had a Dream) 34 Shattered 21 Y de Pronto el Amanecer (And 24 For the Love of Money Pt. 2 19 Sin Ayo (No Goodbye) Suddenly the Dawn) 24 Fragmentz 26 Live Bait 31 Solstice 31 Yuh Too Sweet 24 From a Valley of Talol 20 Mama 31 Sprinter 24 From Colonialisation to Cake Soap: 26 Mangroves 31 Staging the Revolution Colorism in Jamaican Society 26 Manumission 31 Stay Quiet
38 18-25 september ttfilmfestival.com 39 New World Film Centre (NWFC) is a non-profit organisation established in 2011 and dedicated to the promotion and development of a film culture and the film industry in Trinidad and Tobago, the wider Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. we are caribbean film