“Ungrateful” - Movie producer engages local audiences with one hour film

On the weekend of Friday, February 24th and Saturday, February 25th, the Bahamian film, ‘Ungrateful’, produced by filmmaker Dario Erics Poitier, was shown to audiences in Rock Sound at Fountain of Life Ministries and at St. Patrick’s Parish Hall in Governor’s Harbour.

This event was not the first for Dario Erics Productions in Eleutherait followed on a December 30th, 2022 feature showing of five short films - in Governor’s Harbour - which spotlight- ed local talent, Malikah Pinder, among other Bahamian actors.

‘Ungrateful’, a one hour film, which highlights the story of an ‘ungrateful’ son, who turns his back on his mother and siblings who made significant sacrifices for his personal success, featured another local acting talent as a supporting actress, Lakiesha Ferguson - an educator who hails from the community of Rock Sound, South Eleuthera.

Both movie showing events in Eleuthera were fund-raisers in support of Dario’s aspiration to bring more international quality movies, highlighting Bahamian issues and culture, featuring Bahamian talents to Bahamian and wider global audiences.

Dario Erics, began in stage plays, which featured as early as 2013 at the University of the Bahamas Performing Arts Centre and The National Centre for The Performing Arts. The suc- cess of numerous quality stage plays resulted in the conversion of one called ‘Boy Das Ya Mar’, which debuted in 2017 at The National Centre for The Performing Arts into the 2018 movie, ‘Ungrateful’ - which went on to be seen by Bahamian audiences in theatres in Nassau, and on several Family Islands, before its showing in Eleuthera in February.

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