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Welcome to the eighth annual
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who we are THE FESTIVAL TEAM Founder + Festival Director Annabelle Alcazar Programme Director Emilie Upczak Creative Director Jonathan Ali Editorial Director Nneka Luke External Relations Director Melanie Archer Art Director Melvina Hazard Director of Community Development Magella Moreau Director of Public Relations Nickesha McDowell Operations Coordinator Dominic Koo Technical Operations Coordinator Online Strategist + Coordinator Roma Zachemba Filmmaker + Guest Services Coordinator Rhian Vialva UNESCO Conference Coordinator Nicola Cross Immersion Coordinator Christopher Meir University of the West Indies ARC Magazine Nadia Huggins ARC Magazine Peter Doig Ayana Rivière Guest Services Azreena Khan Communications Assistant Tracy Assing Writer Susanne Müeller-Seidel Event Manager Marlon James Event Photographer Rayya Mustapha Little Carib House Manager Dainia Wright Little Carib House Manager Pauline Mark MovieTowne House Manager Kedon Charles MovieTowne Technical Operator Dominic Roopa MovieTowne Technical Operator Aurora Herrera Laura Jensen Videographer Warren Chanansingh Intern Ayrïd Chandler Intern Zico Cozier Intern Alicia Greene Intern Nikita Ramos Intern Kyna Rampersad Intern Adanma Raymond Intern Leeanna Seelochan Intern
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festival basics WHERE TO GET TICKETS Tickets are available at venues at the time of screenings, and
Laventille, Port of Spain
Tickets at MovieTowne and The Medulla Art Gallery Screenings at all other venues Port of Spain VENUES MovieTowne Audrey Jeffers Highway Port of Spain Lowlands Mall, Tobago Children in school uniform $5 Please vacate the cinema between screenings.
MERCHANDISE Film festival merchandise will be sold at The Little Carib Theatre and in the ttff Secretariat at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad 1 Wrightson Road Port of Spain
The Little Carib Theatre Corner White and Robert Streets Woodbrook, Port of Spain Port of Spain, Trinidad+Tobago Please vacate the cinema between screenings. University of the West Indies Film Programme building
Cover photograph: Abigail Hadeed © 2013
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sponsors + partners
pRESENTING SpONSOR Flow LEADING SpONSORS Trinidad and Tobago Film Company Ministry of Tourism SUppORTING SpONSORS National Gas Company OFFICIAL pARTNERS North Eleven Hyatt Regency Trinidad Copa Airlines The T&T Guardian SCRIP-J Heineken All Italian Fine Wine and Foods MINI
SpECIAL INITIATIVES United Nations Educational, (UNESCO) DIpLOMATIC pARTNERS Embassy of Argentina
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Embassy of Mexico + AMEXCID Embassy of the United States of America AWARDS
of Venezuela Flow National Gas Company Embassy of Chile Embassy of the People’s Republic of China Embassy of France
pROGRAMMING pARTNERS ARC Magazine University of the West Indies
IN-KIND SpONSORS Aveda Day Spa
VENUE pARTNERS MovieTowne, Port of Spain MovieTowne, Tobago The Little Carib Theatre Medulla Art Gallery
Cocobel Chocolate Flair The Restaurant Levels Ultrabar & Lounge Mélange More Vino The Shanghai Experience Subway Veni Mangé Zanzibar
NH International Trinidad and Tobago Film Company
video on demand (VOD) is helping to broaden audiences for the option to view at their leisure
You can show your support for
A still from The Tombs, one of the
The ttff, with our presenting sponsor , offers subscribers an opportunity to see selected
Films range from local to regional
Julia Solomonoff
FOR THE third year running, intensive four-day development programme, it will give ten selected emerging Caribbean
who intend to shoot at least part of their prospective project in the region); and international discussions on a range of topics concentrating on the artistic
Columbia University, New York,
sharpening the skills and abilities main facilitator will choose the The programme is open to of Caribbean countries living and working in the Caribbean); programme with a concept for a which they will be expected to
AbOUT THE FACILITATOR Julia Solomonoff is an Argentine
The Last Summer of La Boyita Her directorial debut, Sisters
participants will then pitch their project to a jury at a public event with the best project and pitch, as determined by the jury, will win a
(persons of Caribbean descent resident outside of the Caribbean
assistant director on Walter Salles’ Motorcycle Diaries has taught directing workshops
2013 pIONEERS IN FILM
A G Anthony Joseph shoot in progress
Video producers Television and video producers Actor Television writer and producer CEO of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company the ttff, in partnership with bpTT, has implemented the
are still very much part of the landscape, who have recently made major contributions to
initiative has sought to document television production and exhibition in Trinidad+Tobago since the start th
Animae Caribe
many of whom made their mark in the international arena, have been
initiative moves into a third phase: recognising pioneers who have been making their mark in the and organisations, many of whom
Film producer Film producer and actor Video producer
grows and has increasing impact locally, regionally and internationally, bpTT and the ttff salute these
Filmmaker
A luncheon in honour of these visionaries will be hosted on 13
Writer, director, producer and distributor
each of the awardees is available at , and at an interactive display at MovieTowne, Port of Spain for the
Actor
Founder of Animae Caribe
Actor (posthumous award) Writer, director and producer for
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music videos video on demand
A still from Jumbie
THIS YEAR we are excited to introduce a section of music videos, to
Concrete Jungle
MARKS the ninth annual Secondary Schools Short Film Festival (SSSFF), which is open to students of all secondary schools and
Jumbie Fallen
Jermaine Edwards + Island Number One
The main objective of the SSSFF is to encourage T+T’s student population to produce responsible local content, to promote career opportunities in the industry and to encourage innovation in the youth of
Five Tell Me also screened in various communities nationwide, at events hosted by
It Nuh Pretty
A still from Peripeteia
John Akomfrah
THIS YEAR, the trinidad+tobago Known principally as one of the founders
provocative debut, Handsworth Songs installations, gallery installations, experimental videos and creative been theatrically exhibited and
projects have received scores prizes, while he has earned a
while, Akomfrah has maintained a concern for interrogating and
Akomfrah’s experimental documentary The Nine Muses Odyssey to explore Caribbean and African migration to post-war
Film and TV Awards awarded Akomfrah their most prestigious accolade, a lifetime achievement
The Stuart Hall Project
Lyrical, poetic and essayistic, overwhelming contribution
founding member of the seminal and produced a broad range of work within this critically acclaimed group, including his
festival, the community centres and the cultural institutions, conferences, symposiums and
be a selection of his other work, comprising Handsworth Songs ( Who Needs a Heart The Last Angel of History Peripeteia
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university of the west indies
Andrea Calderwood
ONCE AGAIN, the ttff partners with the University of the West Indies’ Faculty of Humanities and Education’s Film Programme to These screenings will take place over four days (20, 24, 27 and 30 September) and three nights (21, 25 and 27 September) at the Film Programme’s building,
students and alumni of the Film
Malini Guha
The ttff and the University will host a presentation on winning producer
also produced this year’s opening Half of a Yellow Sun
As producer and managing
On scholar
, visiting will give a
New Media at UWI
graduate Programme in Cultural Studies, which will also host a day and evening of screenings including his latest documentary, The Stuart Hall Project, on .
television production company Slate Films, Calderwood has of Film and Television Award
Finally, the ttff’s programme will also present an evening of avant garde and
for her work on The Last King of Scotland
in association with the Post-
Portrait of Jason
artists Peter Doig
has created for the regular screenings at SFC was hosted at
(SFC) began screening
Directed, produced and edited by Shirley Clarke, this criticallyacclaimed documentary was
New Yorker, avant-garde and cinéma vérité underlying Jason’s theatrical,
Compound, Eastern Main Road in follows: screenings and guests as part
of Jason Holliday (Aron Payne), a gay, African-American hustler and aspiring cabaret performer who narrates his troubling story to the
THURSDAy 19 SEpTEMbER Film begins at 8pm
and Hilton Als, theatre critic for the New Yorker
pORTRAIT OF JASON Director: Shirley Clarke
An exhibition featuring some of the iconic posters Peter Doig
English
Filming for Portrait of Jason took place in the living room of Clarke’s Hotel Chelsea penthouse
of grand-scale intimacy” by The
long-lost original print was re-
OVER THE PAST few years, there (features, shorts, New Media works) directed, co-directed or produced by women in the Festival, and we will have guest women
our programme made by women in content exploring the female
Yema, directed by and starring Djamila Sahraoui
In recognition of this, we have introduced a sidebar intended as an annual offering to the Festival, entitled initiative is presented in association with the Cuban Women Filmmakers’
In addition, we will host a special this panel will be part of the threeday UNESCO-ttff conference
Director Kevin Macdonald
EVERY YEAR
SELECT 2013 FEATURE FILM AND NEW MEDIA GUESTS ARE: The Last Summer of La Boyita (Argentina) Abo So (Aruba) Payday Chrissy! Violeta Went to Heaven (Chile) Señoritas (Colombia) Melaza (Cuba) Kingston Paradise (Jamaica) (Jamaica) She Doesn’t Want to Sleep Alone (Mexico) Lu’s Dream (Mexico) Tula I Am a Director (Puerto Rico) Poetry is an Island The Wind That Blows Songs of Redemption No Bois Man No Fraid (T+T) Ten Days of Muharram: The Cedros Hosay (T+T) Stuart Hall Project (UK) Half of a Yellow Sun (UK) (UK) Candid (USA) God Loves the Fighter Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (USA) Welcome to Pine Hill (USA) Beasts of the Southern Wild (USA) OUR 2013 INDUSTRy GUESTS INCLUDE:
(Cuba) (Cuba) (Cuba) (Cuba) (Cuba) (Cuba)
Marco Herrera, FUNGLODE, Dominican Republic (APCAG) (Guadeloupe) (Puerto Rico) (Suriname) ARC Magazine (SVG and Saint Lucia) (UK) (USA) (USA) (USA) (USA) (USA) The Hollywood Reporter (USA) Variety (USA) Filmmaker Magazine (USA) (USA) (USA) (USA)
unesco – cameras of diversity CAMERAS OF DIVERSITy FOR A CULTURE OF pEACE: Thematic Debates on Developing the Caribbean Film Industry 25–27 September 2013 Hyatt Regency Trinidad, Port of Spain, Trinidad
* CAMERAS OF DIVERSITy Cameras of Diversity project has promoted the access, enjoyment, capacity, creation, production, dissemination and distribution of local audio-visual materials of, in particular, indigenous communities and communities of people of African descent in the Latin
culture for sustainable development, enhancing therewith the efforts of local, national and international organisations and institutions, headed by UNESCO, to have culture included as a main element of the Sustainable Development
the audience the opportunity to participate in the discussion at the end of each the institutional capacities to establish operative policies that could support the well as the lack of a regional platform and strategy to support national and local THE THEMATIC DEbATES As part of the overall Culture of Peace programme, UNESCO Havana and th
UNESCO The United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilisations, cultures and dialogue that the world can achieve global visions of sustainable development encompassing observance of human rights, mutual respect and the alleviation
edition of the Festival, an international conference to address the role that
contributes to one of the aims of the Culture of Peace Programme, namely
UNESCO’s mission is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, nationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development -
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE WEDNESDAy 25 SEpTEMbER Opening by UNESCO and ttff
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pANEL 1: LIVE IT, LEARN IT: DEVELOpMENT OF FILM CULTURE THROUGH EDUCATION
The quality of audio-visual production training. Challenges and opportunities in the Caribbean. Interregional cooperation to develop scholarship programmes and exchanges of professionals. Chris Meir, Coordinator of the Film Programme, University of the West Indies, T+T campus; Camille Selvon Abrahams, Creative Director of Animae MODERATOR: Professor Funso Aiyejina, Dean of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies, T+T campus Lunch
pANEL 2: REMEMbERING OURSELVES: COMMUNICATION AND ARCHIVES Exchange of experience and possibilities to provide access to a joint Caribbean audio-visual archive. MODERATOR: Susan Shurland, Secretary General UNESCO National Commission 2:45pm–3:00pm
pANEL 3: WINDOWS TO THE WORLD: FILM ExHIbITION IN THE CARIbbEAN 3:00pm–4:30pm MODERATOR: Carla Foderingham, CEO, Trinidad and Tobago Film Company, T+T
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THURSDAy 26 SEpTEMbER pANEL 4: bEyOND DAMSELS IN DISTRESS: WOMEN IN FILM
The role of applying a gender-equality approach when supporting creative industries for sustainable development. Female audio-visual production in the Caribbean. , Colombia; Michelle Materre, Professor of
pANEL 5: MAKING FILM COUNT: THE ROLE OF FILM IN SOCIAL DEVELOpMENT Shola Lynch, MODERATOR: Georgia Popplewell, Managing Director, Global Voices Lunch
pANEL 6: IF yOU bUILD IT, THEy WILL COME (pART 1): FILM FESTIVALS AND INDUSTRy DEVELOpMENT Alan, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Cuba; Felly Sedicias, Festival Régional et International du Cinéma de Guadeloupe; Percy
pANEL 7: IF yOU bUILD IT, THEy WILL COME (pART 2): FILM COMMISSIONS AND INDUSTRy DEVELOpMENT
MODERATOR: Chris Meir, Coordinator of the Film Programme, University of the West Indies, T+T campus
FRIDAy 27 SEpTEMbER pANEL 8: by THE bOOK: LEGAL FRAMEWORKS Leire Fernández-Gomez, consultant, UNESCO, Cuba; Carla Parris, entertainment lawyer, T+T; Annabelle L Mullen Pacheco, lawyer + MODERATOR: Courtenay Williams, lawyer, Trinidad + Tobago
pANEL 9: FOUR STARS: THE ROLE OF FILM CRITICISM Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter
ARC Magazine, St Vincent and the Grenadines; Joshua Jelly-Schapiro,
Lunch
pANEL 10: WALKING THE TIGHTROpE: GETTING yOUR FILM MADE, MARKETED AND SEEN circuit.
CLOSING: TOWARDS A SUSTAINAbLE CARIbbEAN FILM INDUSTRy: DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS This session will give participants of the conference the opportunity to make practical suggestions towards the future sustainability of the Caribbean
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FACILITATOR: Nirad Tewarie, CEO, Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Service Industries (TTCSI)
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Indicates closed session
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awards + juries AWARDS THE
JURy pRIZES
The Gardener A Home for These Old Bones Passage Previous Scenes Holy Saturday Siblings Vivre Yolanda
bEST FEATURE FILM – NARRATIVE bEST LOCAL FEATURE FILM In Competition: Abo So God Loves the Fighter I Am a Director Kingston Paradise Melaza bEST FEATURE FILM – DOCUMENTARy In Competition: Carmita Fatal Assistance No Bois Man No Fraid Poetry is an Island: Derek Walcott Songs of Redemption bEST SHORT FILM In Competition: Alex and Fabio Are No Longer Here Auntie
In Competition: God Loves the Fighter Ten Days of Muharram: The Cedros Hosay bEST LOCAL SHORT FILM In Competition: After Mas Mystic Blue The Silver Dollar bEST CARIbbEAN FILM by AN INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER In Competition: The Stuart Hall Project Three Kids Tula: The Revolt
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bEST FEATURE FILM bEST DOCUMENTARy FILM
DOCUMENTARy + bEST CARIbbEAN FILM by AN INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER JURy
bEST SHORT FILM SpECIAL AWARDS
Sydney have been involved for the last 15 years in professional education,
bEST NEW MEDIA FILM TT$5,000 bEST STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITy OF THE WEST INDIES FILM pROGRAMME An all-expenses paid trip to the International Film Festival Rotterdam
professor at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad + Tobago, where she
bEST LOCAL FILM IN DEVELOpMENT
THE JURIES SHORTS JURy
Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC), he leads conferences, FEATURES JURy currently director of the Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase, an institution JUNE GIVANNI where she ran the African and Caribbean Film Unit, and at the Toronto Interis currently an advisor on Focus Features’ Africa First programme and works New York-based ArteEast where she directed two editions of the biennial DAN MIRVISH is co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival, and an active The New York Times St Louis Post-Dispatch, Mirvish has been named one of Variety’s Between Us
GEORGIA POPPLEWELL is a media producer and writer from
Feature Film Ibero American Programmer for the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) and the Palms Springs International Film Festival, and the Short Film
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participants get ready
WEDNESDAy 18 SEpTEMbER
pRESENTATION ON pRODUCING WITH ANDREA CALDERWOOD Sponsored by Flow
bEHIND THE CAMERA: THE KEyS TO pRODUCTION Sponsored and presented by the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company Poppy Hanks is the Vice President, Production and Development at Tyler
and television production company Slate Films, Andrea Calderwood has Television Award ( King of Scotland
The Last s and an Academy Award for
FRIDAy 20 + SATURDAy 21 SEpTEMbER Local and visiting participants in this year’s New Media programme of Sponsored and presented by the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company Free of charge and open to the public. WEDNESDAy 25 SEpTEMbER
FRIDAy 20 SEpTEMbER
MARKETING AND DISTRIbUTION: HOW TO SELL AND DISTRIbUTE yOUR FILM Sponsored and presented by the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company
LONDON REIMAGINED by CARIbbEAN FILMMAKERS Malini Guha is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Pressure by Horace Ové and Babylon Free of charge and open to the public. SATURDAy 28 SEpTEMbER
SATURDAy 21 SEpTEMbER All events on this day are free of charge and open to the public.
Every year, the Festival provides a public platform for local and visiting
Free of charge and open to the public.
opening night gala TUESDAy 17 SEpTEMbER Half of a Yellow Sun
HALF OF A yELLOW SUN English OLANNA
takes over the family businesses, and falls in love with Richard, an English
celebrated novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun
Chinua Achebe’s classic novel Things Fall Apart for the London stage, to great Half of a Yellow Sun
TUESDAy 01 OCTObER The Little Carib Theatre, port of Spain Tula: The Revolt
TULA: THE REVOLT : Jeroen Leinders English T+T PREMIERE
more and more aware of the injustice existing between his people and the white has ended slavery in her colonies, he downs tools and demands to meet with
Tula: The Revolt
a career in advertising directing numerous photo shoots and television commer-
Tula: The Revolt
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CARIbbEAN
The Caribbean
SHORTS
MUSIC VIDEOS pANORAMA
As ever, there is a section of shorts section is comprised almost exclusively of
of music videos
The panorama section consists Trinidad+Tobago, including India, countries in Africa and Europe, and, for
NEW MEDIA
RETROSpECTIVE
John
Film and art are natural partners and the ttff annually screens a selection of video are shown as part of the New Media initiative, held in partnership with ARC Magazine
caribbean features
AbO SO Papiamentu, with English subtitles
Spanish, with English subtitles
TATIANA is a smart and demure young woman who moves with her
ANA is an actress who can’t seem to do better than land limiting parts
Abo So features memorable songs by Padu del Caribe, Aruba’s most celebrated
she must pretend to be a prostitute for a foreign documentary about
Q&A
CARMITA Spanish, with English subtitles
FIFTY YEARS AGO Carmen Ignarra left her Cuban homeland and
English
TEN-YEAR-OLD Chrissy lives on the rough side of town in deplorable Chrissy becomes a target for teasing and discrimination from her fellow
a young woman from the Dominican Republic, arrives to work as a this gift horse to the top? Or will her intellect be enough to help elevate her and her family out of their poverty-stricken life? Q&A
FORWARD EVER: The Killing of a Revolution
FATAL ASSISTANCE French, Haitian Creole and English, with English subtitles
English
OVER THREE YEARS
THE INVASION OF
the case, despite billions of dollars in aid and the intervention of everyone from movie stars to former US presidents? This gripping
chain of events? This comprehensive, gripping and revealing
paints a damning picture of a country in thrall to a paternalistic aid Q&A Q&A Q&A
GOD LOVES THE FIGHTER English
CHARLIE is a young man seeking to make ends meet on the streets
I AM A DIRECTOR Spanish, with English subtitles
AFTER SPENDING several years in Los Angeles, Carlos, a budding
producer and only believer, Joa, Carlos is determined to make his God Loves the Fighter is an honest
Q&A Q&A Q&A
caribbean features
KINGSTON pARADISE
MELAZA Spanish, with English subtitles
English
LIFE ON THE streets of Kingston is about frantic survival for Rocksy, a
IN THE TOWN of Melaza (Molasses) the sugarcane industry is at
eyes a fancy sports car belonging to a businessman, Faris, and devises a
sugar mill, still goes to the factory daily, although it has been shuttered When the police discover their scheme they charge the couple a hefty
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NO bOIS MAN NO FRAID English
pAyDAy English
KEEGAN TAYLOR
ROMIE AND PACK are best friends who dream of becoming
they embark on a discovery of their roots by deciding to learn the local
been saving their salaries and plan to make a down payment on challenged on all sides: by their loving but eccentric families, a violent
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pOETRy IS AN ISLAND:
RED, WHITE AND bLACK: A Sports Odyssey English
English
AS A POET
WHEN KESHORN WALCOTT threw his javelin to gold-medal-
presents an intimate portrait of the Saint Lucian Nobel Laureate for
group of athletes who have made Trinidad + Tobago proud at the
in places essential to his work and life, such as his art studio and Most importantly, this documentary is a celebration of the greatest gift interviews with the likes of Hasely Crawford, Richard Thompson and
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SILENT MUSIC
SONGS OF REDEMpTION
English and English sign language, with English subtitles
EVERYTHING in the Gomez family seems perfect, but appearances
the youngest of three hearing children, who embarks on a journey
English
AT the General Penitentiary in Kingston, where inmates are serving sentences for crimes as serious as murder, a remarkable prison’s former superintendent, a rehabilitation scheme has been implemented that involves inmates creating and recording reggae Songs of Redemption is an uplifting testament to the healing, even
is ultimately forced to ask herself: Are some secrets best left hidden? Q&A Q&A
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caribbean features
THE STUART HALL pROJECT
THE SWIMMING pOOL Spanish, with English subtitles
English
, an ex-professional swimmer and now instructor, waits for He would later become one of the United Kingdom’s foremost cultural theorists and intellectuals of the Left, and be hailed as the father of of Hall, spanning over 50 years, is comprised entirely of footage from
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TEN DAyS OF MUHARRAM: The Cedros Hosay English
THREE KIDS Haitian Creole, with English subtitles
HOSAY is a Shia Muslim ritual commemorating the martyrdom of
A STEADFAST FRIENDSHIP binds Mickenson, Pierre and Vitaleme,
Trinidad community of Cedros, the observance of Hosay in the month the collective memory of the Hosay artists and celebrants from
Three Kids
Twa Timoun in
it also shows their exuberance in the midst of a devastated city where Q&A Q&A
panorama features
VIVA CUbA LIbRE:
THE WIND THAT bLOWS
Spanish, with English subtitles
LOS ALDEANOS sweeping the Cuban underground with their urgent lyrics about
English
FOR WELL OVER the Grenadines have engaged in a dangerous and (now) controversial
modernisation, the steadfast voices of a people reverberate as they guerrilla style with hidden cameras, this powerful and provocative
Q&A
ANINA
bEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Spanish, with English subtitles
English
ANINA YATAY SALAS is a ten-year-old girl who does not like her
HUSHPUPPY, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink,
schoolyard skirmish, so the principal disciplines them with a weird punishment: they are both given a sealed black envelope which they
the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he’s no longer there out of whack, temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an
contents of the envelope turn into a journey to understand the world aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search
panorama features
CANDID Hindi, with English subtitles
English
IN THE and the Chauhans (a Hindu family) have been rival political clans for
JIM is a videographer who lives in New York and suffers from recurring strangers and then uploads the videos to his website, brings him into
young rivals brandish guns and trade insults, but their hatred soon
Q&A
FREE ANGELA AND ALL pOLITICAL pRISONERS
THE DREAM OF LU Spanish, with English subtitles
AFTER her young son and only child, Sebastian, dies of a brain aneurysm, LucĂa, a classical guitarist and single mother, suffers a
English
POLITICAL ACTIVISTS don’t come any more intelligent, inspiring or
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners is the gripping story of how Davis faced down her enemies and embarked
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GLORIA
HANDSWORTH SONGS
Spanish, with English subtitles
English
THIS seminal documentary explores the civil disturbances in the
GLORIA age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties,
Handsworth Songs not only stoked controversy, it also heralded, in John Akomfrah, the arrival of a brilliant and
THE KID WHO LIES
THE LAST SUMMER OF LA bOyITA
Spanish, with English subtitles
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy (who doesn’t give his name) is on a journey
Spanish, with English subtitles
JORGELINA tag along with Luciana at the beach, Jorgelina decides to spend the
stories, however, eventually reveal the truth: ten years previously, his
Q&A
panorama features
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE English
NEIGHbOURING SOUNDS Portuguese, English and Mandarin, with English subtitles
WHEN her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby, a nurse, drops out of medical school in order to better focus on his well-
AN UPSCALE neighbourhood in the city of Recife is the setting for
NO
pApILIO bUDDHA Spanish, with English subtitles
IN ballot box to vote YES or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another leaders persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, and under scrutiny by Pinochet’s minions, Saavedra and his team
Malayalam and English, with English subtitles
IN THE STATE of Kerala in India live the dalits, a group of indigenous, landless people who face discrimination and displacement by political
THE pIROGUE
ROCK, pApER, SCISSORS
Wolof, French and Spanish, with English subtitles
Spanish, with English subtitles
IN THIS riveting Caracas-set drama, separate lives intersect and Senegalese compatriots, he dreams of new horizons, where he can many pirogues illegally taking migrants to Europe, he reluctantly When Hector is forced to leave Luis in Valentina’s care, a desperate Luis is swept up in dangerous events from which his parents become
SEñORITAS Spanish, with English subtitles
ALEJANDRA is a free spirit who lives with her mother in a comfortable
Spanish, with English subtitles
AMANDA is a young woman with a problem: if she’s alone, she can’t
with her friends, including her best friend Véronica and her sometime she is suddenly forced to look after her eccentric elderly grandmother, Yet Alejandra’s comfort is also where the complexity lies, and gradually Señoritas is a subtle, contemplative and intimate examination of the way one young
Q&A
she mostly lives through her memories of past glories, Dolores is able
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panorama features
SHIp OF THESEUS
SpRING IN A SMALL TOWN
English, Hindi, Arabic and Swedish, with English subtitles
WHEN an unusual photographer has a life-changing clinical procedure,
Mandarin, with English subtitles
LIYAN is the patriarch of the Dai family, a once-prosperous clan brought
erudite monk, confronting an ethical dilemma, must choose between strands of their philosophical journeys, and their eventual sublime convergence, Ship of Theseus is a cinematic marvel pulsating with
Town
TANTA AGUA
VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN
Spring in a Small
Spanish, with English subtitles
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Lucía would rather do anything than go on
The kids’ initial reluctance and the constant rain threaten to derail his
Spanish, Polish and French, with English subtitles
CREATION inspired by the life of one of Chile’s heroes goes beyond linear biography, to present a poetic portrait of a woman whose songs echoed the soul of -
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WELCOME TO pINE HILL
WHO NEEDS A HEART
English
English
with an unexpected encounter surrounding a lost dog, Welcome to Pine Hill
WHO Needs a Heart is a parable of political becoming and
Tobago descent), sets out to make peace with those around him and,
Ornette Coleman) investigates the expressionist potential of music to
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yEMA
ZARAFA Arabic, with English subtitles
French, with English subtitles
YEMA (Mother lives in the mountains, drags the body of her beloved dead son, Tarek, who was a soldier in the Algerian army, to her hut, where she washes
MAKI Hassan, Prince of the Desert, is instructed by the Pasha of Egypt to
comes to Ouardia seeking help, she is torn between lingering resent-
from Sudan to Paris, Maki and Zarafa have many adventures, in this
shorts
AFTER MAS
ALEx AND FAbIO ARE NO LONGER HERE
ANSWERING THE CALL:
English
Spanish, with English subtitles
English
English
AFTER MAS is a story of love
ALEX were once a couple, but have now broken
THIS FILM celebrates the life and work of Clive Pantin and his contribution to the development of Trinidad and Tobago as a teacher, sportsman, politician
WHEN a barrel arrives from London bearing an unwelcome
darkness during J’ouvert on the light of day, will these young lovers from very different backgrounds stay true to their desires?
their relationship, they explore the intricacies of love, how they got together and what drove them
AUNTIE
makes a hasty decision that risks destroying her special bond with a
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THE bLUE AND THE GOLD
bOUNTy
English
English
Dutch, with English subtitles
A HARD-WORKING single
POACHING and habitat destruction were responsible for the disappearance of the blue and gold macaw from Trinidad’s Nariva
WHEN Tako, an adopted black boy being raised by his white lesbian
English WHEN Oliver Cromwell transported 50,000 Scottish unprecedented act of ethnic cleansing, they disappeared from
the challenges of raising two teenagers in a new country while achieve her dream of a better life
writer Chris Dolan goes in search of their descendants, the island’s Redlegs, a small community still
woman’s crusade to bring these birds back to Nariva, and how her efforts have resulted in one of the world’s most successful parrot
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father is a gangster rapper from
A CHILD OF TWO WORLDS
CONTRACT
English
English
ANNIE LALANDE is a young woman from Canada, the child
DANCE
English
is a contract killer who works perceives to be a spiritual encounter
Trinidadian father she has never
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Marcie is cruelly rejected by her posh classmates because she doesn’t live in a fancy house with a nice
Cain, however, does not take kindly travels to her father’s homeland in
English
DANCE is the story of the ballerina born and raised in Trinidad before China’s mother of modern dance,
her little apartment, as she blames western ballet to the country, in discovers he owns the biggest
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DIRTy REAL HAVANA
Spanish, with English subtitles
DUST
DRINK
English
EARTH, WATER, WOMAN
English English
THIS FILM reveals the work and persona of Cuban writer Pedro Juan Gutierrez, author of the acclaimed Dirty Havana Trilogy It weaves together conversations with the author, which took place in Havana over a four-year period, with excerpts from his narrative
AN undocumented immigrant and his son are smuggled into London,
DUST braids two memories from the young man remembers a
alone and penniless, the young father is forced to go on an urgent his luck goes from bad to worse in the gritty neighbourhood, he
Ultimately, this contemplative examination of the nature of grief becomes a poetic meditation of
EARTH, Water, Woman spotlights the Fondes Amandes Community Re-Forestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago, and its charismatic leader Akilah Jaramogi, in their ongoing efforts to transform barren hillsides into a vibrant, healthy viewers everywhere to examine their
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THE EARTHQUAKE
THE FALLEN pEOpLE OF THE bLACK LAND
FRACTION
THE GANG THAT WALKS
Haitian Creole, with English subtitles
English
English
English
IN
SENT as punishment to spend the night with his ancestors, Kayana, an adolescent Amerindian boy, is caught between conscience and
Haiti, a pregnant refugee fears she’s carrying a stillborn, while children play a dangerous game in the next
life is shattered On the brink of insanity, she visits the prison to confront the man
food and abate the anger of his gods with an offering?
THE MEN of the Nation of Islam in Trinidad and Tobago take to the streets to spread the word about
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THE GARDENER
GLORIOUS CHILDHOOD GAMES:
HALF:
Papiamentu, with English subtitles
English
English
A RICH MAN and a poor man meet in the hallway of a hospital, where they are both being treated
IN Trinidad and Tobago, the games children played in the past were very different to the games they play
a Chinese father and Jamaican mother, Vincent Lee was sent to
few moments, these two gentlemen
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HOLy SATURDAy
Spanish, with English subtitles
GLORIA and Diana don’t have the
he endured a life of hardship and servitude in the care of Chinese Half paints a portrait of a man caught in the cultural traditions of pre-Communist China and his longing to be reunited with his
Diana fantasies about the reactions she’ll get when she shows her During one of their weekly Saturday morning visits to the supermarket,
A HOME FOR THESE OLD bONES
HOpE
IF I COULD FLy
JAb IN THE DARK
French, with English subtitles
English
English
English
WHEN Ganeshwar and Ayanna meet, two worlds clash and
A YOUNG GIRL tells a tale of her unhappiness living with her mother and grandmother, and wishes she
A SECURITY GUARD who works
on a plot of land from which he is seeks the help of Hilaire, a witch
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KNOCKAbOUT
THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORy
LEROy CLARKE:
English
English
English
English
THE STREETS of Port of Spain and its varied cast of characters are the backdrop for this Trini-style neo-
THE Last Angel of History is one of
PAINTER, poet… obeah man?
WHILE liming with his friends,
and inspiring conferences, novels
times of LeRoy Clarke, arguably one of the great modern Caribbean
but fall out with each other in the
leads them is to the past, and an old rift regarding the disappearance
of the chromatic possibilities of digital video is embedded within a mythology of the future that creates connections between black unpopular culture, outer space and
LIME OF THE DEAD
behind the man who proudly proclaims to be the best at what
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MEH bROTHA
THE MOON IN THE GARDEN
THE MySTERy OF THE SOUCOUyANT
MySTIC bLUE
English
Spanish, with English subtitles
English
English
MAYARO in southeastern Trinidad is home to an obscure creature
MYSTIC
COMPELLED by a burdensome long-distance familial relationship, a woman returns home to her island, to uncover some all-too-real truths
and then leads to a poetic dreaminspired by the novel The Garden, by the Cuban writer Dulce María
willed woman who does not share her boyfriend’s beliefs, try to hold together their relationship while soucouyant and what relevance she
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NIGHTDRIVER
ON My SHOULDERS
OUTDATED
pASSAGE
English
English
English
English and Haitian Creole, with English subtitles
GOGO rapper from New York, pays the bills by providing transport for an
THIS love, caring, growing old, growing up, the reversal of roles and the
A YOUNG WOMAN is persuaded by an older friend to step out into
Sanchez, instructs him to pick up Casey, a university student on her
through the relationship between a man and his daughter in their youth,
whether or not she wants to remain single after her disastrous dating must hide the fact that her brother Etienne is sick, in order to save
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PASSAGE centres around a group of Haitians locked in the
pUbLIC SpACES:
THE RADICAL INNOCENCE OF JACKIE HINKSON
Spanish, with English subtitles
English
English
IN a ramshackle house full of memories, a grandfather cares
THROUGH an exploration of the social, developmental and environmental aspects of design, Public Spaces links the work of architect Colin Laird to the development of post-independence
JACKIE HINKSON is one of the Caribbean’s greatest living artists, and has been painting the landscape of his native Trinidad
pERIpETEIA
pREVIOUS SCENES
English
PERIPETEIA the lives of two sixteenth-century
This documentary proposes a who were the focus of woodcuts by the German renaissance master
sometimes harsh, vision of death,
work of art?” and an answer is proposed by looking at Hinkson’s artistic themes and his media, with
location on the bleak moors, the Q&A
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SMALLMAN:
THE RIGHT THING
SIbLINGS
THE SILVER DOLLAR
English
Papiamentu, with English subtitles
English
English
A YOUNG MAN struggles with the guilt of an accident and must ultimately come to terms with the
TWO orphaned brothers look for ways to cope with their mother’s
KAREEM has recently lost his
KENWYN RAWLINS had a
lacklustre attitude towards work
workshop beneath his house he made push toys, model battleships, miniature furniture Smallman is an exploration of the world that Kenwyn Rawlins made, as told by
crime, Dane attempts to intervene and rescue his younger sibling from his reckless lifestyle before
Kareem’s father ever earned as
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SWEET, SWEET COUNTRy
THAVENOT STREET
THIS IS ME
THREE CARDS
English
English
English
English
LIVING IN a small town in southern
ON of Thavenot Street in Tacarigua, Trinidad, spontaneously protested what they believe was a case of
THIS IS ME is looks at the
THIS IS a family drama about how far a father will go to save the life of his ailing daughter, and how help can sometimes come from the most
refugee Ndizeye struggles to support not only herself, but the family she left behind in a Kenyan becomes so much more intense when her family literally shows up at
handwriting, and how it affects our
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TO THE NIGHT
THE TOMbS
VIVRE
yOLANDA
English
English
French, with English subtitles
Spanish, with English subtitles
WHEN Camille is rebuked for being a sex worker by her teenage
THIS FILM man’s three-day journey through New York’s infamous central booking jail system, notoriously known as the Tombs, and the interesting personalities he
A TEACHER do you want to be when you grow up?” While his joyful classmates
YOLANDA, a single mother, struggles to raise her children on Tired of hustling in the streets, she decides to leave it all behind and illegally emigrate to Puerto Rico on
that can support her family is easier
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new media DEbORAH ANZINGER
JEANNETTE EHLERS
Lizard A feared creature for many Jamaicans, the lizard is transformed into a carcass of little interest, and
Native Girl
FOR THE ARC Magazine present New Media, a collection of artists’ works that explore a range of themes and issues, while pushing and blurring the 20–27 September, Medulla Art Gallery NEW MEDIA OpENING NIGHT pm NATIVE GIRL (pERFORMANCE) Olivia McGilchrist
Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, Black Bullets is a poetic tribute to
Mammary Flashes In this video, a voudon dance is Mammary Flashes references active in mammals for breast
building with a strong connection to the triangular trade that today plays an important role as Denmark’s
STEEVE bAURAS
KENDRA FRORUp
3K
All Who Wander Are Not Lost
3K extract from Shock Corridor
An experimental new media installation response to Port-auPrince, Haiti, this video uses
Native Girl formance re-investigates several Jamaican mythical and legendary female The portrayal of evocative moments from these Jamaican tales is a starting
DAILy SCHEDULE
extract, a young black man in seen to highlight contrasting spaces
Saturday 21 September
Sunday 22 September
MALAIKA bROOKS-SMITHLOWE
ANTOINE HUNT
Monday 23 September Walking Drawings Across the Estuaries Tuesday 24 September Wednesday 25 September You Look Like a Carriage That Not Even the Oxen Can Stop Thursday 26 September
Islet This triptych is a meditation of sorts, revealing the frictions between progress and peace in a high-
There is a belief that spirits cannot pass over water; on a small island
SANTIAGO ECHEVERRy
pATRICIA KAERSENHOUT + JEANETTE EHLERS
Friday 27 September NEW MEDIA CLOSING NIGHT LIGHT TRAp (pERFORMANCE) Using projected animation and self-portraiture, Light Trap muses on the
La Vie en Rose The Image of Me La Vie en Rose intimacy is interpreted by scared outsiders through the beauty of
Two women gradually change colour while a voiceover recites the
pATRICIA KAERSENHOUT
MARSHA pEARCE + ALExANDER ELIAS
S(K)IN
MARK ANTHONy THOMAS
Rotator Directors: Various
Island Matrix Island Matrix is a concise visual comment on Caribbean reality as a OLIVIA MCGILCHRIST
music, and the street meets concert hall, to create symmetrical,
RICHARD MARK RAWLINS LUIS ALbERTO VASQUEZ LA ROCHE
Ernestine and Me presents herself as a cultural object to a range of contemporary Jamaicans, exposing their varied
A young Jamaican male executes a
Peace, curated by Mark Coetzee, features some of today’s most innovative contemporary artists visually interpreting the subject released each year at cultural and educational venues globally and online on World Peace Day on
WALKING DRAWINGS ACROSS THE ESTUARIES
Flag party is an Independent Film (Sample #4) of the country of Trinidad and Tobago, coming to terms with the fact that it has been an independent
Explored here are ideas of location, emigration and space; routine,
AIKO ROUDETTE
(Sample #13 + 15)
Director: Everton Wright
Examination of the duality of inner
Artist Evewright creates large-scale freehand drawings on selected
Memory box #1 A constructed glimpse of nostalgia
(Sample #9)
JOIRI MINAyA
Explored again are ideas of location, emigration and space; routine,
Hoghole Directly inspired by personal events, Hoghole is an emotional response to repeated experiences of exploitation, crime and robbery,
binólogos
SpECIAL pROGRAMMES pUMA FILMS4pEACE
and grooves are then brought to life when members of the public and horses are invited to walk these lines to engage with and experience
yOU LOOK LIKE A CARRIAGE THAT NOT EVEN THE OxEN CAN STOp
CARLOS RUIZ-VALARINO
Binólogos is a series of short experimental and minimal videos that aims to problematise traditional Director: Nelson de los Santos Arias SHARON MOISE
Folding bicycle project A video art and social intervention project that presents the foldable bicycle as a medium that intervenes
Gladys and her daughter live on the periphery of New York City where they share their isolated lives together in their own little space in the same house, which is their
Unrevealed Central to Unrevealed is the concept of searching and the This work uses stop-motion photography to explore political
also hides from them, they only speak Caribbean Spanish together and a few words in English they
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Abo So After Mas Alex and Fabio Are No Longer Here Anina Answering the Call: A Tribute to Clive Pantin Auntie Scotland’s Sugar Slaves
Candid Carmita A Child of Two Worlds Chrissy! Contract Daddy’s Garden Dance Dirty Real Havana The Dream of Lu Drink Dust Earth, Water, Woman
Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution Fraction Free Angela and All Political Prisoners The Gang That Walks The Gardener Gloria Glorious Childhood Games: God Loves the Fighter Half of a Yellow Sun Half: The Story of a ChineseJamaican Son Handsworth Songs Holy Saturday 33 33 Hope I Am a Director 33 If I Could Fly 33 Jab in the Dark The Kid Who Lies Kingston Paradise 33 Knockabout 33 The Last Angel of History 33 Leroy Clarke: A Chief Among Men? 33 Lime of the Dead
Fatal Assistance Melaza
Middle of Nowhere The Moon in the Garden The Mystery of the Soucouyant Neighbouring Sounds Nightdriver No On My Shoulders Outdated Passage Payday Peripeteia The Pirogue Poetry is an Island: Derek Walcott Portrait of Jason Previous Scenes Public Spaces: The Architecture of Colin Laird The Radical Innocence of Jackie Hinkson The Right Thing Rock, Paper, Sissors Señoritas She Doesn’t Want to Sleep Alone Ship of Theseus Siblings Silent Music
The Silver Dollar Smallman: The World My Father Made Songs of Redemption Spring in a Small Town The Stuart Hall Project Sweet, Sweet Country The Swimming Pool Tanta Agua Ten Days of Muharram: The Cedros Hosay Thavenot Street This is Me Three Cards Three Kids To the Night The Tombs Violeta Went to Heaven Vivre Welcome to Pine Hill Who Needs a Heart Yema Yolanda You Look Like a Carriage That Not Even the Oxen Can Stop Zarafa