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Welcome to the eleventh annual trinidad+tobago film festival! Welcome to the eleventh edition of the trinidad+tobago film festival, as we celebrate what we are confident will be another exciting year. While we, and the rest of the country, have had to tighten our belts and get back to basics, our basics are as strong as ever, as evidenced by the great line-up of Caribbean films, including four narrative features produced by locals in T+T. For us this is both gratifying and exciting. We remain committed to Trinidad and Tobago films and filmmakers and the development of a Caribbean-wide film industry. Training and development is therefore high on our agenda, as we continue for a second year with the Caribbean Film Mart and a Producers lab - important components in strengthening skills and facilitating networking across borders and boundaries.

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welcome who we are sponsors + partners festival basics COSTAATT youth jury university of the west indies secondary schools programme rbc focus: filmmakers’ immersion industry activities: caribbean film mart and producers’ lab awards + juries opening night film intro to films caribbean feature films panorama feature films medium length + short films new media schedule at a glance index of films

We have also increased the number of screening venues, spreading beyond the East-West Corridor, with screenings in Arima, Chaguanas and San Fernando, and new partnerships with the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) and the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT). There are numerous individuals, organisations and agencies that contribute to the success of this Festival, from the filmmakers, sponsors, partners, industry guests and of course the viewing public. To all of you we say thank you for your support and your belief in us and indeed, in Caribbean cinema. We look forward to seeing you at the screenings, presentations, parties and limes. Enjoy the Festival. More than ever, this year the ttff is good to go.

who we are THE FESTIVAL TEAM Bruce Paddington Founder + Festival Director Annabelle Alcazar Programme Director Melvina Hazard Director of Community Development Magella Moreau Director of Public Relations Azreena Khan Festival Coordinator Carla Foderingham Consultant B C Pires Youth Jury Mentor Ayrïd Chandler Graphic Designer Marian Bradshaw MovieTowne Port of Spain House Manager Susanne Ramrattan MovieTowne Tobago Coordinator Yao Ramesar UWI Coordinator Joel Nanton COSTAATT Coordinator Johanna Thomas PR + Marketing Coordinator Aurora Herrera Blogger Shaun Rambarran Webmaster Dina Poon Chong Programming Assistant Andrei Pierre Technical and Operations Manager Dara-Marie Raggay Hospitality + Logistics Coordinator Rhian Vialva Coordinator

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sponsors + partners The trinidad+tobago film festival would like to acknowledge the generous support of our sponsors and partners.

PRESENTING SPONSOR Flow

LEADING SPONSORS Trinidad and Tobago Film Company (FilmTT) SUPPORTING SPONSORS RBC Royal Bank The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited Embassy of the United States of America Tourism Development Company OFFICIAL PARTNERS North Eleven Hyatt Regency Trinidad SCRIP-J/BOSS Drink Lounge & Bistro Big Black Box Digimedia Photo + Cinema Zoom Caribbean All Italian The Plant People Guardian Media Limited OMG Digital Magazine

PROGRAMMING PARTNERS The University of the West Indies College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts (COSTAATT) British Council Caribbean Embassy of Colombia Embassy of Mexico Embassy of Chile

VENUE PARTNERS MovieTowne Port of Spain MovieTowne Tobago The University of the West Indies Big Black Box College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts (COSTAATT) Akimbo Boutique Oilfield Workers Trade Union Trinidad Theatre Workshop

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IN-KIND SPONSORS Ravi Dolsingh, Attorney-at-Law Paprika Restaurant and Bar Trader Jack Restaurant Holdings Zanzibar Haaka Svaada Subway Heineken

The trinidad+tobago film festival would like to acknowledge the generous support of our sponsors and partners.

festival basics

WHERE TO GET TICKETS Tickets are available at venues at the time of screenings, and in advance at the box office. Tickets at MovieTowne are $30. Students in uniform and with student ID pay $20. Screenings at all other venues are free.

MERCHANDISE Film festival merchandise will be sold at MovieTowne Port of Spain.

VENUESâ&#x20AC;&#x2030; MovieTowne Audrey Jeffers Highway Port of Spain Lowlands Mall, Tobago Tel: (+)1.868.627.8277 movietowne.com Please vacate the cinema between screenings. The University of the West Indies Film Programme Building 12 Carmody Road, St Augustine The Centre for Language Learning (CLL Auditorium), Main Campus Noor Hassanali Auditorium, Main Campus sta.uwi.edu/fhe/film COSTAATT POS, Chaguanas, San Fernando 9-11 Melville Lane, Port of Spain Pierre Link Road, Chaguanas 40-44 Sutton Street, San Fernando Tel: (1)+868.625.5030 costaatt.edu.tt

OWTU Hall Headquarters Paramount Building 99a Circular Road San Fernando Tel: (+)1.868.652.2701 owtu.org The Little Carib Theatre Corner White and Roberts Streets, Woodbrook, Port of Spain Tel: (+)1.868.622.4644 littlecaribtheatre.com Trinidad Theatre Workshop 23 Jerningham Avenue, Belmont Tel: (+)1.868.624.8502 Hyatt Regency Trinidad Wrightson Road Port of Spain Tel: (+)1.868.623.2222 trinidad.hyatt.com

Big Black Box 33 Murray Street, Woodbrook Port of Spain Tel: (+)1.868.622.1001 Drink Lounge & Bistro 63 Rosalino Street Woodbrook Tel (+)1.868.223.7243 AKIMBO boutique Pro Queen Street, Arima Tel: (+)1.868.381.6469 ttff office 199 Belmont Circular Road Port of Spain Trinidad+Tobago Tel: (+)1.868.621.0709 Tel: (+)1.868.621.3473 ttfilmfestival.com

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a look back at 10

Ben Patterson + Pras Michel presenting their film at Opening night.

StudioFilmClub

Some attendees and Link Think Drink.

Filmmakers at the Caribbean film Mart.

Machel Montano at the premiere of Bazodee

Guests at the Free Films at Movie Towne sponsored by bpTT

The crowd at Drink for our pre festival lime last year!

Part of the filmmakers panel enjoying a laugh

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focus on further education

Battledream Chronicles

We continue our ongoing mission to foster appreciation, critical analysis and review of films among emerging programmers, critics and writers, through the support of our new partners, the College of Science Technology and Applied Arts (COSTAATT), in the realisation of two youth-focussed initiatives and screenings at all three campuses. We have also expanded our ongoing partnership with The University of the West Indies for an increased number of screenings. THE COSTAATT YOUTH JURY + PRIZE Each year, since its inception in 2014, the Youth Jury has afforded ten young people - aged 16 to 21, the opportunity to view and adjudicate on Youth films in competition during the official festival period. Following an open Call for Submissions, five jurors were

Members of 2015 Youth Jury

selected based on essays on why they loved their favourite films. During ttff/16, under the mentorship of TT film critic B.C. Pires, the five-member Youth Jury will view 7 Caribbean and international feature-length films featuring young protagonists negotiating through a variety of ‘coming of age’ situations, issues and challenges. Following the Jury’s selection of the winning film, the Director will receive a trophy plus a cash award of $5,000TT sponsored and presented by COSTAATT at the ttff/16 awards ceremony on Tuesday September 27 at the Central Bank Auditorium.

Journalism programme for the rigour, best practices and industry standards of critical film review and festival reporting. Ten students from The Ken Gordon School of Journalism and Communication Studies will attend ttff/16 and review the films in competition for the Youth Jury Prize. Every day during the festival, one review will be selected to be posted on our official website. At the conclusion of the festival, the top ttff/16 Future Critic will be selected based on merit of quality writing and analysis, meeting of deadlines and number of reviews published.

TTFF/16 FUTURE CRITICS PROGRAMME We are pleased to introduce the inaugural Future Critics Programme in partnership with COSTAATT. The programme seeks to prepare emerging reviewers from the College’s

BC Pires

For the list of films in competition for the COSTAATT Youth Jury Prize, see the Awards section of the guide on page 8.

films at the university of the west indies

Sanksara

Dream Seller

For the eleventh consecutive year, we have partnered with the UWI Film Programme to provide students and faculty members with a platform for showcasing their work. This year we have gone further, by partnering with the Department by partner with the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies- Cultural Studies Programme, the Institute of Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) and the Faculty of Law Administration on film screenings and academic panel discussions, offering an expanded programme for stimulating, entertaining public-engagement and academic discourse.

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Tomb

screenings for secondary schools + celebrating shakespeare

Othello

The ttff uses the medium of film to encourage and develop film literacy amongst secondary school students, as well as to help bring the school curriculum alive. In addition, we see nurturing film literacy in students and encouraging a love for independent film as an important part of our long-term work to develop a wider audience for Caribbean cinema. The ttff therefore schedules films for schools during the week-day morning slots at MovieTowne POS and Tobago, providing an opportunity to have a new experience of language and literature, through film.

Richard III

CELEBRATING SHAKESPEARE WITH THE BRITISH COUNCIL In recognition of the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, and in partnership with the British Council’s Shakespeare Lives programme, this year’s selection of films, including those for schools, features a number of film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays and a stage performance that has been captured on film. Shakespeare Lives is a 2016 global programme of events and activities celebrating the playwright’s work.

Shakespeare on Screen This year’s programme for schools will include film adaptations of Shakespeare plays currently on the Ministry of Education’s literature curriculum, including: • As You Like It - Directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring David Oyelowo

• Othello - Directed by Oliver Parker, starring Laurence Fishburne

• The Tempest - Directed by Julie

Taymor, starring Helen Mirren + Dijimon Hounsou • Richard III - Directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Sir Ian Mckellen

Shakespeare on Stage In this international premiere of Shakespeare’s King Lear, featuring Trinidadian-British actor, Don Warrington, and an almost all-black cast, the stage production that toured the UK has been captured on film in a lavish spectacle, brought to life through magnificent period costuming and stellar performances from the cast. Warrington fills Lear with a magnetic, majestic power, in a commanding performance as the cantankerous king who descends into madness as family ties disintegrate, order disappears and the land slides into chaos.

rbc focus: filmmakers’ immersion + pitch session

RBC Focus 2016 facilitator, Kisha Tikina Burgos

RBC Focus 2015 session

The Programme Now in its sixth year, the RBC Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion is a four-day development programme that gives ten selected Caribbean filmmakers the opportunity to learn from film professionals. The selected filmmakers will enter the immersion with a concept for a feature-length fiction film, from which they will be expected to develop a detailed treatment. Led by a facilitator, the participants will engage in discussions on a range of topics concentrating on the artistic side of filmmaking.

RBC Focus: Filmmakers Immersion takes place from 23-25 September at the festival’s office in Belmont. The Pitch The second and final stage of the RBC Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion, the pitch session, will see the ten participants make a pitch for the projects they worked on during the first three days of the workshop to a panel of film industry professionals. The person with the best pitch, as determined by the panel, will win a prize of $20,000, sponsored by RBC Royal Bank.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR Kisha Tikina Burgos Kisha Tikina Burgos in a screenwriter, producer and actress. She received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School for the Arts at NYU, and also attended the San Antonio de los Baños International School of Film and TV in Havana, Cuba. She has a BFA Humanities, Drama, from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

She has written the screenplay for Antes que Cante el Callo/Before The Rooster Crows, which won the Yellow Robin Award at CIFFR this year, and which will screen at ttff/16, as well as for Under My Nails (which she acted in and produced). She is currently in pre-production with two feature films: La Gran Desilusión, as director, and Esta Isla, to be directed by ttff alumnus Christian Carretero.

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ttff’s Caribbean Film Database (CFDb) is poised to be the largest single source of information on films produced in and about the Caribbean- specifically the insular Caribbean plus Belize, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. The definitive authority on Caribbean film for researchers, distributors, academics, film lovers: • Independent made in and about the Caribbean after 2000 • Information on more than 600 films from the English, Dutch, French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean • Classic Caribbean films section • No subscription or registration required The CFDb is an initiative of the trinidad+Tobago film festival in association with the Fundación Global Democracia y Dessarollo from the Dominican Republic, the Association for the Development of Art Cinema and Practice in Guadeloupe, the Foundation of New Latin American Cinema in Cuba and the Festival Régional et International du Cinéma de Guadeloupe. Phase 1 of the CFDb was funded by the Cultures+ Programme, funded by the European Union (European Development Fund) and implemented by the ACP Group of States.

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industry activities Saturday 24 September and Sunday 25 September 9.00am 4.00pm Following on from our successful launch of the Caribbean Film Mart (CFM) in 2015, the ttff will once again host the CFM during this year’s festival. Ten feature film projects will be selected and successful participants will have the opportunity to attend presentations by industry professionals on: INTERNATIONAL APPEAL AND VIABILITY OF LOCAL FILMS Presenter: Sydney Levine, INDIEWIRE Presentation on the current state of affairs for Caribbean films and how to get them into the festival/ market circuit: PRODUCING A FILM FROM CONCEPT TO PREPRODUCTION Presenters: Ari Maniel Cruz, director of Antes que Cante el Callo (Before the Rooster Crows) - nominated for Best Film ttff/16 and Kisha Tikina Burgos, writer and producer of the same film. PANEL: CO-PRODUCTIONS/MARKETING/DISTRIBUTION Steven Markowitz, Leticia Tonos and Catherine Buresi Moderator: Perrine Ledan, Audiovisual and cinema expert, ACPCultures+ Programme. This panel is presented in cooperation with the ACPCultures+ Programme, implemented by the Secretariat of the ACP Group of States and financed by the European Union. ONE ON ONE SESSIONS Each participant will get the opportunity to spend time with the industry professionals individually. CFM PITCH PANEL All ten participants will pitch their project to a judging panel: Steven Markowitz, Sydney Levine and Rodrigo Pla.

PRODUCER’S LAB An open forum for young filmmakers to hear from the experts on a wide range of topics: OVERVIEW OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESS + RAISING MONEY Abigail Hadeed (PLAY THE DEVIL) Maria Govan (PLAY THE DEVIL) BREAKDOWN OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESS Loraine O’Connor (BAZODEE) Casting Location scouting Breaking down a script Scheduling As there are limited places this workshop requires registration in advance. Please call 621.0709.

CATHERINE BURESI Catherine Buresi has been working for more than 20 years in the European and international film industry with a focus on festivals, markets, European co-production and financing of films from the South. She has been Co-Director of The European Film Market (Berlinale Film Festival) and a collaborator in different markets, co-production markets and events (MIP TV, MIP COM, Cannes Producers network, Berlinale Co-production Market, and Talents, Dubai Film Connection). She has also been CEO of EAVE – European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, a professional training programme targeting European producers and related professionals. SYDNEY LEVINE Sydney Levine has over 35 years experience in the entertainment industry. She is a writer at Indiewire’s popular blog, SydneysBuzz, which consists of articles on the international film business. She also engages in professional education, strategic planning and consulting for individuals, companies, and countries seeking to improve their position in the international film market. Sydney works with various film markets, administering buyers’ data, and giving tours of the markets to newcomers. STEVEN MARKOVITZ Steven Markovitz has been producing fiction and documentaries for 20 years. He has established an extensive network in production and distribution across Africa. His fiction work has screened at Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto and Sundance, and received an Oscar nomination. He executive produced Stories of Our Lives (Toronto 2014, Berlinale Panorama 2015) and produced the Sudanese documentary Beats of the Antonov, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at Toronto14. Other titles include Love the One You Love (Winner of Best South African Film and Director, Durban 2014), Viva Riva! (Berlinale, Toronto), Congo in Four Acts (Berlinale, Hotdocs, IDFA), Proteus (Berlinale, Toronto), and Project 10 (Berlinale, Sundance, Hotdocs). Steven is producing films in Libya, Japan, Liberia, Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria. LETICIA TONOS Leticia Tonos Paniagua was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. She completed her studies at the London Film School, where her thesis was an adaptation of the Junot Díaz short story “Ysrael”. La Hija Natural, her first feature, was the Dominican Republic’s entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and shown at ttff/13, and Cristo Rey (2013), screened at ttff in 2014.

Sunday 25 September 1.00pm - 1.30pm PRESENTATION ON VOD BY FLOW As Flow’s territories have increased, there is a greater opportunity for filmmakers to have their films seen around the region. FLOW will explain how VOD can work to the filmmakers’ benefit.

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awards + juries

ttff/15 award winners

At the ttff/15 awards ceremony

AWARDS The ttff awards prizes in three categories: jury prizes, people’s choice awards and special awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday 27 September at the Central Bank Auditorium in Port of Spain.

In competition: Redman - Jared Prima Dream Seller - Shane Lee Kit Sweat - Josiah Persad

JURY PRIZES BEST FEATURE FILM – NARRATIVE TT$12,500 / Sponsored by The National Gas Company In competition: El Acompañante (The Companion) - Pavel Giroud, Cuba Esteban - Jonal Cosculluela, Cuba Antes Que Cante El Callo (Before the Rooster Crows) - Arí Manuel Cruz, Puerto Rico Play the Devil - Maria Govan, T+T, The Bahamas, the USA The Cutlass - Darisha Beresford, T+T

BEST T&T SHORT FILM – DOCUMENTARY Trip to Regional Festival/Market Sponsored by the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company In competition: The Dying Swan: Ras Nijinsky in drag as Pavlova - Christopher Laird How We Play with Fire - Desiree Sampson Living Without You - Anna-Lisa Wickham Who I say I Am - Amir Aether Valen Ali

BEST FEATURE FILM – DOCUMENTARY TT$12,500 / Sponsored by The National Gas Company In competition: Make Mine Country - Ian Berry, St. Lucia Diva: Enemy of the People - Tony Oldham, St. Lucia Se Bondye vie Yuli (God Willing Yuli) - Jean Jean, Haiti/Dominican Republic BEST SHORT FILM – NARRATIVE TT$7,500 / Sponsored by The National Gas Company In competition: SO.C13.TY - Khris Burton, Martinique Nightmare Before Wedding - Orain-Chomaud Fabienne, Guadeloupe Caparazón (Shell) - Joa Vidal, Cuba Lost Boy - Aisha Porter-Christie, Jamaica Rico - Lynda D’Alexis, Guadeloupe BEST SHORT FILM – DOCUMENTARY TT$7,500 / Sponsored by the National Gas Company In competition: Blessed Love - Kra Kouassi, Guadeloupe Iceberg - Juliana Gómez, Cuba Welcoming Arms - Rosanne Ma, Bermuda H20 - Clish Gittens, Barbados BEST T&T FEATURE FILM Trip to Regional Festival/Market Sponsored by the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company In competition: The Cutlass – Darisha Beresford Tomb - Nicholas Attin Sanskara - Christopher Din Chong Play The Devil - Maria Govan BEST T&T SHORT FILM – NARRATIVE Trip to Regional Festival/Market Sponsored by the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company

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BEST FILM AS DECIDED BY A YOUTH JURY TT$5,000 / Sponsored by COSTAATT In competition: Play The Devil - Maria Govan, Trinidad+Tobago, The Bahamas, the USA Battledream Chronicles - Alain Bidard, Martinique Antes Que Cante El Callo (Before the Rooster Crows) - Arí Manuel Cruz, Puerto Rico Ixcanul - Jayro Bustamente, Guatemala Mustang - Deniz Gamze-Ergüven, France Mountains May Depart - Zia Zhange, China Presos (Imprisoned) - Esteban Ramirez, Costa Rica AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE TT$5,000 In competition: Se Bondye vie Yuli (God Willing Yuli) - Jean Jean, Haiti/Dominican Republic Antes que Cante el Callo (Before the Rooster Crows) - Arí Manuel Cruz, Puerto Rico El Acompañante (The Companion) - Pavel Giroud, Cuba UNITED NATIONS T+T AWARD FOR BEST EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER TT$5,000 In competition: Amir Aether Valen Ali - Who I Say I Am Desiree Sampson - How We Play With Fire Jamie Lee Loy - Super Me Dylan Quesnel - Small Change Kyle Sahadeo - The Absentee PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS BEST FEATURE FILM – NARRATIVE BEST FEATURE FILM – DOCUMENTARY BEST SHORT FILM TT$5,000 each / Sponsored by Flow RBC FOCUS: FILMMAKERS’ IMMERSION PITCH WINNER TT$20,000 / Sponsored by RBC Royal Bank

THE JURIES FEATURES

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE

Lisa Burkett Lisa Burkett has over 25 years’ experience in public relations, media, promotions and philanthropy, playing an active role in several NGOs. Lisa enjoys and appreciates enriching cultural experiences that fosters progressive discussions around books and authors, film, art, and Trinidad’s unique, local culture.

Chiara Sangiorgio Chiara Sangiorgio joined Amnesty International’s global death penalty team in 2008, and has since then managed its campaign for the abolition of the death penalty. She has coordinated Amnesty’s work in support of the UN General Assembly’s resolutions on a moratorium on the death penalty, and participated in research and advocacy missions for the organisation.

Stéphanie James Based in Guadeloupe, Stéphanie James is a successful writer and producer of TV series and documentaries broadcasted on several regional, national and international networks and in international film festivals worldwide. Together with her Trinidad born husband, Steve, she formed Shakti Productions, which seeks to promote greater cooperation within the region, using television as a means to bring Caribbean countries closer together.

Sunity Maharaj Sunity Maharaj is the Managing Director of the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies. She is career journalist who has been editor-in-chief of the Trinidad Express, News Director of TV6 and Group Executive for Editorial & Content Development at One Caribbean Media. Maharaj is also a media consultant and trainer and head of her own multi-media production company.

Gladstone L. Yearwood Gladstone Yearwood is known for his writings on black film aesthetics. He received the Ph. D. and M.A. from Ohio University, Athens, and the B.F.A from New York University Institute of Film-Television. He is a Professor of Film and Creative Arts and Director at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. His documentary films include Chattel House and Rum Shop. Sweet Bottom is his first feature-length film.

Folade Mutota As a Social Development Advisor and Lobbyist, Folade Mutota works with civil society organizations, national, regional and international development agencies seeking to progress and or study social policy in the Caribbean. In 1999 she founded the Women’s Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD), whose ground-breaking work in the area of women, gender, gun violence and peacemaking has received regional and international recognition.

SHORTS

UNITED NATIONS T+T Emerging Documentary Filmmaker

Pavel Giroud Pavel Giroud was born in Havana. He graduated from Cuba’s High Institute of Design. His first feature, The Silly Age (2006), was selected as Best Cuban Film of the Year by the Cuban Critics Association. El Acompanante (The Companion) 2015, his third feature, won various awards including The Audience Award at the Miami and Málaga Film Festivals and Best Project at the San Sebastian Forum.

Diane Quarless Diane Quarless is the Director of the ECLAC Sub-regional Headquarters for the Caribbean. Trained in international relations, she also holds a Masters degree in Development Studies with specialisation in Environmental Management. Diane is also a thespian, having spent much time on-stage.

Lisa Wickham Media Producer-Director-TV Personality, Lisa Wickham, is the founder of Imagine Media International Limited, a multi-media production, event management & PR entity. She is also the founder-publisher of E-Zone the Mag! and the Caribbean Film and Media Academy. Wickham, in 2014, was one of the Producers on Girlfriends Getaway, a US film shot in Trinidad. In 2012, Wickham was the Line Producer/TT Supervising Producer for the award-winning Canadian film Home Again. Daphne Mcwilliams Daphne McWilliams has produced music videos for artists such as Blues Traveler, Notorious BIG and Queen Latifah. Since the 1990s she has line-produced shorts, commercials and independent feature films including the Academy Award-nominated documentary Four Little Girls, directed by Spike Lee, and Feels Like Coming Home, directed by Martin Scorsese. In a Perfect World is her documentary feature directorial debut.

Nirad Tewarie Nirad Tewarie is the CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce of T&T (AMCHAM T&T). He also sits on the National Tripartite Advisory Council, and was recently invited by the UK’s prestigious Wilton Park and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office to participate in their “Caribbean 2030 - new thinking for a new generation” forum. As the former CEO of the T&T Coalition of Services Industries, Nirad worked on the Merchant Ivory production The Mystic Masseur, and is an Associate Producer of the movie Bazodee. Susan Shurland Susan Shurland is the current Secretary General of the Trinidad and Tobago National Commission for UNESCO. She holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies degree, and a Master’s Degree in Regional Planning and Resource Development, both from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is certified in Public Relations from the University of the West Indies’ Institute of Business; and in Multilateral and Green Diplomacy from the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR).

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opening night film

PLAY THE DEVIL Director: Maria Govan 2016, T+T, The Bahamas, USA Narrative Feature / 90 minutes T+T PREMIERE

TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER CENTRAL BANK Independence Square 6.00pm – Cocktail reception, the Eric Williams Plaza 7.45pm – Film screening: Play The Devil, The Auditorium Maria Govan and Abigail Hadeed will be present to introduce their film.

In this powerful coming of age drama, a young man is caught between expressing his true creative nature and desires, and surrendering to society’s dictates about what it means to be a man. As he takes his first tentative steps towards self-discovery, family pressures and his friendship with a successful businessman derail his plans and set him on a collision course with heartbreaking consequences. Play The Devil shatters conventions of sexuality, masculinity, morality and individuality through its unapologetic, multi-layered exploration of the power dynamics between individuals, within communities and the wider society. Play The Devil, produced by Abigail Hadeed (T+T) and directed by Bahamian native, Maria Govan, showcases sterling performances by UK-based actor, Petrice Jones, local acting veterans Penelope Spencer, Che Rodriguez and Nickolai Salcedo, and newcomer, Gareth Jenkins - with breath-taking shots of Paramin and its famed blue devils as its dramatic backdrop.

special premiere screening We are pleased to present the exclusive premiere of The Cutlass, directed by award-winning T+T filmmaker Darisha Beresford and produced by Teneille Newallo.

THE CUTLASS

Special Premiere Screening MovieTowne, Port of Spain Wednesday September 21, 6.00pm

The Cutlass tells the story of Joanna Soloman (Lisa Bel Hirschmann), who, on a weekend getaway with friends on Trinidad’s remote North East coast, is suddenly abducted and held in isolation deep in the forest. At a disadvantage physically, she must muster all her emotional strength and mental prowess to outwit her kidnapper and survive. Inspired by a true story, The Cutlass examines the ability of the human spirit to triumph over unspeakable horrors through mental dexterity, sympathy and internal freedom. The Cutlass also screens at MovieTowne POS on Monday September 26 at 6.00pm and UWI Film Programme on Saturday September 24 at 5.00pm.

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Film for a sustainable world

The emergence of Trinidad and Tobago film adds to the diversity and unique voice of a country.The UN acknowledges the work of the T&T Film Festival in

Leaving No One Behind.

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colombia: ttff’s country in focus

This year, we have joined forces with the Embassy of Colombia to bring some of the best of contemporary Colombian cinema to ttff/16, with an exciting selection that includes the Academy Award nominated film Embrace of the Serpent. Leading, Colombian film-professionals will also be in town to introduce their films and network with local filmmakers. The ttff will benefit from its relationship with Colombia, which has a rich film history, both as a location for international film production and for the quality of its local film productions.

by the Colombian Government. This year, for the first time in history, a Colombian film was nominated for an Oscar – The Embrace of the Serpent – a movie directed by Ciro Guerra, about a local Shaman’s interpretation of changes imposed on Amazonian Indigenous tribes by Western Civilization. However, this is not the first time Colombian talent is recognised by the Academy; actress Catalina Sandino was nominated for the Best Actress Award in 2004 for her role in Maria Full of Grace, and the 2007 documentary, La Corona, was also nominated for Best Short Documentary.

COLOMBIA: A NEW STAGE FOR FILM PRODUCTION Colombia has a rich film history, both as a location for international film production and for the quality of its local film productions. The enormous transformation that Colombia has experienced in the last twenty years can easily be seen through the lenses of native and international Directors and Producers who have chosen Colombia as their main destination for film production. The country is now seen around the world from different perspectives showing its rapid development; its beautiful landscapes and destinations; its diversity; the richness of its cultural backgrounds, and its road to peace and renovation.

Colombia is producing a number of quality films that are all - in whole or in part, an effort to show and make others understand the complexities of life in Colombia. This has been reflected in the number of local films winning awards at international festivals and with international audiences. Some of the most important Colombian movies include: Rodrigo D: No Future (Rodrigo D: No Futuro), 1990; Strategy of the Snail (La Estrategia del Caracol), 1993; The Rose Seller (La Vendedora de Rosas), 1998; The Winds Journeys (Los Viajes del Viento), 2009; The Colors of the Mountain (Los Colores de la Montaña), 2010, and this year’s Oscarnominated movie, The Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo del Serpiente).

The “boom” of Colombian Cinema did not happen by miracle. Colombia’s Film Promotion Law (Law 1556 of 2012), which offers cash rebates or reimbursements to films partially or totally produced in Colombia, has helped to exponentially boost the film industry in the country by reducing operational and production costs to movie makers. Movie Production companies making a full or partial film in Colombia receive a 40% reimbursement of the production costs, 20% reimbursement of logistical costs, and the city of Medellin offers an additional 15% incentive.

Colombia has benefited from generous Government incentives and support for the Colombian cinema as well as from the skills and creativity of Colombian filmmakers and the existence of prestigious film festivals like the Cartagena Film Festival. All this contributes to Colombia developing a successful local and international film industry.

Great work has already been achieved and influenced from such incentives, from Los 33, a movie directed by Mexican Director Patricia Riggen, which tells the story of the 33 miners who were trapped in a Chilean mine in 2010, starring Antonio Banderas; Mena, Tom Cruise’s upcoming film directed by Doug Leman; The Boy, an American horror film produced by Elijah Wood; Blunt Force Trauma, starring Frida Pinto; to Narcos, a Netflix Original Series. It is without a doubt that Colombia’s Film Promotion Law has helped position the country internationally by indirectly promoting tourism, improving its image and developing its local movie industry. It is estimated that since the implementation of this Law in 2012, $37 million U.S. dollars has been received by the country from foreign productions filmed in Colombia. Colombian Cinema is also blossoming and has benefited greatly from the programmes and incentives created and/or supported

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the ttff/16 film lineup CARIBBEAN

PANORAMA

SHORT AND MEDIUMLENGTH FILMS

The Caribbean section comprises feature-length films from the Caribbean, the diaspora, and films by international filmmakers made in and about the region.

The Panorama section consists of feature-length films from world cinema. The films in this section come from North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, India, China and the Middle East.

This section comprises films under 30 minutes in length (shorts) and films between 30 and 52 minutes in length (medium-length films) from the Caribbean and its diaspora.

NEW MEDIA

The New Media section traditionally comprises video art and experimental films made by artists and filmmakers from the Caribbean and its diaspora. This year we make a special deviation to address the Venezuelan crisis through the works of contemporary Venezuelan artists, and curated by experimental filmmaker Sandra Vivas. In addition, there will be a special presentation by ttffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technical partner, North Eleven.

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ANTES QUE CANTE EL GALLO (BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS)

BATTLEDREAM CHRONICLE

Director: Arí Maniel Cruz 2016, Puerto Rico Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 98 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Alain Bidard 2015, Martinique French with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 108 minutes T+T PREMIERE

In this moving coming-of-age drama, Carmín is a rebellious teenager who lives in a mountainous village in the centre of Puerto Rico with her tough, conservative grandmother. Carmín dreams of moving to the city, San Juan, with her mother, but soon learns she’s remarried and is leaving for the US without her. The the arrival of her father after long years in prison, helps to ease Carmín’s profound sadness, but the relationship brings its own ambiguousness and complexities, adding to her growing confusion as she moves into womanhood.

In a futuristic world of 2100, humans have been reduced to virtualreality slaves. Two young women battle against the Empire for their freedom in this inventive sci-fi adventure combining online gaming, Caribbean folklore, and Martinique’s complicated colonial history to create a new kind of hero’s tale. Thu 22 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 3.00pm, UWI Noor Hassanali Auditorium Sat 24 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Sat 24 Sept, 8.15pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sun 25 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Tue 27 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

CAFÉ AMARGO (BITTER COFFEE)

DIVA: ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

Director: Rigoberto Jiménez Hernández 2015, Cuba Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 95 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Tony Oldham 2016, St. Lucia/UK Documentary Feature/ 95 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

In the fifties, Lola, Gelacia, Pepa and Cira Garlobo were four young sisters. After their parents´ death, they inherited a coffee plantation in the middle of the Sierra Maestra mountains. Though not wanting to have any men in their house, they gave refuge to a young man who is on his way to join the guerrillas - a decision that will change their lives.

In this insightful tale of fashion and rebellion in paradise, Parisian transvestite Vincent McDoom travels to his St Lucian homeland to stage the island’s inaugural Hot Couture Fashion Show. However, on an island of fierce sexual politics, it is not long before Vincent is fighting local hostilities, homophobia, and the status quo.

Thu 22 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Mon 26 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Fri 23 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sun 25 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Sun 25 Sept, 6.00pm, Akimbo Boutique, Pro-Queen Street, Arima

20–27 september

Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.

EL ACOMPAÑANTE (THE COMPANION)

ESTEBAN

Director: Pavel Giroud 2015, Cuba, France, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 104 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Jonal Cosculluela 2015 Cuba Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative feature / 93 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Horacio, a former, disgraced Olympic boxing champion involved in a doping scandal, is obliged to earn his redemption by serving as companion to Daniel - a defiant soldier infected with HIV by an African prostitute while on an overseas mission. Despite the strained situation - and Daniel’s determination to escape, both men form an unlikely friendship.

The determination of achieving your dreams, viewed from the universe of a 9 year old boy, Esteban, who lives alone with his mother and wants to become a pianist, is the thread of this plot, which reflects the harsh side of the current situation in Cuba. Thu 22 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Sun 25 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Mon 26 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

Thu 22 Sept, 9.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Sun 25 Sept, 9.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Tue 27 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

LA FAMILIA REYNA (THE REYNA FAMILY)

LA VIE PURE (PURE LIFE)

Director: Tito Rodríguez 2015, Dominican Republic Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 96 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Jeremy Banster 2014, French Guiana/France French with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 93 minutes T+T PREMIERE

When the eldest son of a prosperous family returns home to the family farm business, his arrival triggers a series of events that promises to help them forget old feuds. In this modern interpretation of the ‘prodigal son’, a family must move beyond hurt and betrayal towards forgiveness.

Based on true events, in 1949, Raymond Maufrais, a young French explorer, goes on a solo expedition in the Amazon rainforest. He leaves behind a diary that reflects the meaning of Pure Life and his encounters, but leaves the mystery of his own disappearance unsolved.

Fri 23 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Mon 26 Sept, 8.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Fri 23 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Thu 22 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT Chaguanas

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MAKE MINE COUNTRY

PLAY THE DEVIL

Director: Ian Berry 2015, St. Lucia/USA Documentary Feature/ 69 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Director: Maria Govan 2015 T+T/The Bahamas/USA Narrative feature/ 90 minutes T+T PREMIERE

In the 1940s, the US military built an airbase in St. Lucia and brought with them their love of country music. The airbase is long gone, but the country music has never left. Part cinéma vérité documentary, part dreamscape, this is contemplation on the common humanity of people from vastly different cultures, played against a background of extreme poverty and disenfranchisement, which even the bluest of countrywestern balladeers would be hard-pressed to convey.

18 year old Gregory is caught between repressing his true creative nature and desires and surrendering to society’s dictates of what it means to be a man. An encounter with a successful businessman derails the plans set by his family and community. Play The Devil shatters conventions of sexuality, masculinity, morality and individuality, through its unapologetic, multi-layered explorations of power dynamics, religion and aspirations.

Wed 21 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Fri 23 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT Chaguanas Sun 25 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

Sun 25 Sept, 6.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

QUEEN NANNY: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess

SANSKARA

Director: Roy T. Anderson 2015 Jamaica/US Documentary feature / 87 minutes T&T PREMIERE

Director: Christopher Din Chong 2015 T+T Narrative Feature / 97 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Queen Nanny documents the incredible resistance movement of the Jamaican Maroons, led by their indomitable, Chieftainess. From her role as spiritual leader, skilled in the use of herbs and guerilla warfare tactics, to her formidable mountain stronghold against the English, this unprecedented film delves into the mystery of one of the most celebrated, but least recognized heroines in the resistance history of the New World.

A young boy finds himself under the tutelage of a ruthless man and his unhinged wife in a chilling tale in which the veneer of ordinary family life masks something far more sinister.

Thu 22 Sept, 2.00pm, COSTAATT San Fernando Fri 23 Sept, 2.30pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sponsored by The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) Sat 24 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

20–27 september

Wed 21 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Fri 23 Sept, 7.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A

Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.

Si BONDE VIE YULI (GOD WILLING YULI)

SWEET BOTTOM

Director: Jean Jean 2015 Haiti/DR French Creole with English Subtitles Documentary Feature / 70 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Gladstone L. Yearwood 2015 Barbados Narrative Feature / 94 minutes T+T PREMIERE

For Yuli, a Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic for more than 35 years, it has been an ongoing struggle to raise her children with dignity as she deals with her precarious immigration status. In the midst of government regularisation, imminent deportation and personal upheaval, the questions arise: What really makes us belong to a place? How are the links between the land and its people made?

Roy Ashby, who immigrated to Brooklyn as a child and grew up in New York City, has no place to turn to when deported to Barbados. Royâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother died in an automobile accident and he grew up knowing nothing about his family. A chef by trade, Roy cannot get a job on the island without a Police Certificate of Character. He now finds himself on an island that is strange and foreign with no family and no home. Now destitute in a strange environment, Roy will do anything to get back to New York.

Wed 21 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Sun 25 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Mon 26 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Thu 22 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Tue 27 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago

THE CUTLASS

TIMELESS

Director: Darisha Beresford 2016 T+T Narrative Feature / 105 minutes WORLD PREMIERE

Director: Edward La Borde, Jr. 2015 US Virgin Islands Narrative Feature/ 113 mins T+T PREMIERE

Inspired by true events, The Cutlass is a dynamic story about empowerment in the most dreadful of circumstances. After enduring a terrifying robbery, Joanna falls into the dangerous grasp of a sociopath, and is taken into the secluded jungle. She finds herself isolated in a world of natural beauty as she musters the courage to emotionally battle the unsettled mind of her kidnapper.

Timeless is the story of Ajuwa, a young Ghanaian warrior, who loses her soulmate to the slave trade. Their souls reunite in the present in the form of Malinda Benjamin, a Senator in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Alphonse Walcott, a gifted writer who has returned home from New York. The kindling of the relationship goes sour when Alphonse meets Bianca, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic, sent to work in a seedy brothel in St. Thomas, and falls in love with her instantly.

Sat 24 Sept, 5.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A Mon 26 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

Thu 22 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT POS, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Tue 27 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

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TOMB

VUELOS PROHIBIDOS (FORBIDDEN FLIGHTS)

Director: Nicholas Attin 2016 T+T Narrative Feature / 84 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Director: Rigoberto Lopez 2015 Cuba Spanish + French with English Subtitles Narrative Feature /115minutes T+T PREMIERE

In 2025, nations around the world join together for the largest expedition into the furthest regions of deep space. Commanders Nelson Obatala and Charles Mercer are two astronauts representing Trinidad and Tobago. During the long voyage, what was expected to be six months of hyper sleep turns out to be much longer for Obatala. As a reult, Obatala must risk the success of his mission and the family he loves to find and rescue his dear friend and fellow countryman.

Monique is a Parisian in her mid 30s. On her way to Havana to meet her Cuban father for the first time, she meets Mario in a Paris airport - also Cuba bound. Grounded by weather conditions, the two share their fears, doubts, hopes into the complexities of Cuba and Cuban identity. At the same time, their growing attraction signals another type of journey.

Fri 23 Sept, 10.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 7.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A Mon 26 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A

A MONSTER WITH A THOUSAND HEADS

3 BELLEZAS (3 BEAUTIES)

Director: Rodrigo Plá 2015 Mexico Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 75 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Director: Carlos Caridad-Montero 2014 Venezuela Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 97 minutes T+T PREMIERE

When Sonia learns that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a terminal stage, she races to secure the insurance company’s approval for his medical care. Met with indifference and negligence at every turn, Sonia’s desperation triggers a primal survival instinct as a series of increasingly violent confrontations unfold. A sharp, urgent tale of a distraught woman intent on protecting her family at all costs.

Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in her family and is willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. Her fixation instigates rivalry between her two daughters, while her only son looks on in anguish, as he longs for the warmth and affection from his mother.

Presented in partnership with the Embassy of Mexico Fri 23 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sat 24 Sept, 9.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Tue 27 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

Thu 22 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Sun 25 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

20–27 september

Wed 21 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Fri 23 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT Chaguanas Mon 26 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.

DHEEPAN Director: Jacques Audiard 2015 France English, French, Tamil with English subtitle Narrative Feature / 114 mins T+T PREMIERE 3 Tamil refugees - a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl, pose as a family in the dire aftermath of Sri Lankaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastating civil war. Together, these complete strangers try to build a life in a dangerous, hostile housing project outside Paris. Thu 22 Sept, 6.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Sun 25 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

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EL ABRAZO DEL SERPIENTE (EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT) Director: Ciro Guerra 2015 Columbia Spanish, Portuguese, German, Catalan, Latin with English Subtitles Narrative Feature/ 125 minutes T+T PREMIERE Karamakate, is an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people. Together with two scientists with whom he has built a friendship over 40 years, he searches for the sacred and rare psychedelic Yakruna plant. Tracking two parallel odysseys through the Amazon, this blistering and poetic historic epic examines the ravages of colonialism, which cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape. Presented in partnership with the Embassy of Colombia Fri 23 Sept, 6:00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A

EVERY COOK CAN GOVERN: The Life, Impact & Works Of C.L.R. James

GENTE DE BIEN (DECENT PEOPLE)

Directors: Ceri Dingle + Rob Harris 2016 UK Documentary Feature / 121 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Director: Franco Lolli 2014 Colombia/France Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 86 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

This historical tour-de-force interweaves never-before-seen footage of C.L.R. James with personal contributions from those who knew him and astute historical and political analysis from leading scholars of his work. Crowd-funded, crowd-featured and crowd-filmed, this unique production lifts the lid on the life of a tireless, fearless and uncompromising revolutionary.

10-year-old Eric, along with his dog Lupe, is sent to live with his estranged father, Gabriel, in this beautifully observed drama that artfully examines class differences in Colombia. Gabriel, a down-on-his-luck handyman, is forced into parenthood. After taking Eric to his well-off employerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home, Gabriel finds that a new world is opened up for Eric, but when his employer offers to help but her good intentions merely highlight the class divide between them.

Wed 21 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Thu 22 Sept, 5.00pm, UWI Centre for Language Learning (CLL), Q+A/ PANEL DISCUSSION Sat 24 Sept, 12.00pm, OWTU Headquarters, Paramount Building, 99A Circular Road, San Fernando, Q+A/PANEL DISCUSSION

Presented in partnership with the Embassy of Colombia. Thu 22 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT POS Fri 23 Sept, 3.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Tue 27 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

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IN A PERFECT WORLD

INVASIÓN

Director: Daphne McWilliams 2015 USA Documentary Feature / 76 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Director: Abner Benaim 2014 Panama/Argentina Spanish with English Subtitles Documentary Feature / 94 minutes T+T PREMIERE

What does it mean to be a man raised by a single mother without the presence of a father? Drawing from the director’s own relationship with her son, this probing cinematic essay examining one of society’s major ailments, features interviews with men of diverse backgrounds and ages, sharing painfully personal anecdotes in the wake of emotionally turbulent and unsettling periods of their youth.

Invasión is a documentary about the collective memory of a country. The invasion of Panama by the US in 1989, serves as a mechansim to explore how a people remember, transform and often forget their past in order to re-define their identity and become who they are today. Thu 22 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Wed 21 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT POS Fri 23 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT Chaguanas

Thu 22 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT POS, Q+A Tue 27 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

IXCANUL (VOLCANO)

KENKE (WEED)

Director: Jayro Bustamante 2015 Guatemala/France Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature/ 93 minutes T&T PREMIERE

Director: Enrique Pérez Him 2016 Panama Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 80 minutes T&T PREMIERE

María, a 17 year old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala. Although Maria dreams of going to the big city, her condition as an indigenous woman trapped by an imminent arranged marriage does not permit her to change her destiny. In a life threatening twist, she is forced to go out into the modern world where her life is saved, but at what price?

When teenager Kenny gets busted buying weed, his mother solicits his respectable cousin Josué to help her boy conquer his addiction - not knowing that Josué himself smokes weed and is also dealing with a pregnant girlfriend.

Mon 26 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Tue 27 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

20–27 september

Thu 22 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT POS Sat 24 Sept, 3.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.

LAMB

LANDFILL HARMONIC: A Symphony of the Human Spirit

Director: Yared Zeleke 2015 Ethiopia/France/Germany/Norway/Qatar Amharic with English Subtitles Narrative Feature/ 94 minutes

Directors: Brad Allgood + Graham Townsley 2015 Paraguay/Norway/Brazil/USA Spanish with English Subtitles Documentary Feature / 84 minutes T+T PREMIERE

When Ephraim, an Ethiopian boy, is sent from his homeland to live with distant relatives, he takes his beloved sheep with him. One day, his uncle announces that he will have to sacrifice his sheep for the upcoming religious feast, but Ephraim is ready to do anything to save his only friend and return home.

The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura is a Paraguayan musical youthgroup of kids that live next to one of South Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest landfills. This is the astounding and inspirational story of an orchestra playing music from instruments made entirely out of garbage. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight. However, when a natural disaster devastates their community, the orchestra provides a source of hope for the town.

Wed 21 Sept, 6.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Sun 25 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Thu 22 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Thu 22 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT Chaguanas Sun 25 Sept, 4.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Mon 26 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne Tobago

MARY KOM

MAYA ANGELOU: AND STILL I RISE

Directors: Omung Kumar 2014 India Hindi with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 122 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Director: Bob Hercules + Rita Coburn Whack 2016 USA Documentary Feature / 112 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Mary Kom is the only Indian woman boxer who managed to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics where she won a Bronze Medal. This inspiring biopic chronicles the life of this five-time, world amateur boxing champion as she undergoes sometimes insurmountable challenges before audaciously accomplishing her ultimate dream.

This is the first ever documentary about Dr. Maya Angelou. Through the lens of her inner circle, this film weaves her words with rare, intimate archival photographs and videos, painting hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most defining civil rights moments.

Wed 21 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT Chaguanas Tue 27 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Thu 22 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Fri 23 Sept, 5.00pm, UWI Noor Hassanali Auditorium, Q+A/PANEL DISCUSSION Sun 25 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

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MILES AHEAD

MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART

Director: Don Cheadle 2016 USA Narrative Feature / 100 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Jia Zhanke 2015 China Chinese, Manadarin, Cantonese with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 151 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

In the midst of a prolific career, Miles Davis disappears from public view for five years in the late 1970s. He lives in isolation while dealing with chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, a musical voice inhibited and numbed by drugs and painkillers, and traumatic memories of his past. A music reporter, Dave Braden forces his way into Davis’ house and, over the next couple of days, the two men unwittingly embark on an adventure to recover a stolen tape recording of the musician’s most recent compositions.

On the cusp of the capitalist explosion in China in 1999, Shen Tao has two suitors: Zhang, an aspiring entrepreneur, and his best friend Liangzi, who works in a coal mine. Shen Tao chooses Zhang - a man with a future. 15 years later, she is estranged from her son. An intensely moving study of how China’s economic boom - and the culture of materialism it has spawned, has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love. Thu 22 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Sun 25 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Sat 24 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Tue 27 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

MUSTANG

NINTH FLOOR

Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven 2015 Turkey/France Turkish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 94 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Director: Mina Shum 2015 Canada Documentary Feature / 82 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has unexpected consequences. The family home is progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homemaking replaces school, and marriages start being arranged. The five sisters who share a common passion for freedom, find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them.

This is a penetrating look at the Sir George Williams University riot of February 1969, when six Caribbean students mounted a protest against institutional racism. This snowballed into 14 days of chaos and violence, with riot police storming the occupied ninth floor, and a storm of computer cards raining into the streets below.

Wed 21 Sept, 8.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Tue 27 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

20–27 september

Fri 23 Sept, 12.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A Mon 26 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.

OPPOSITE FIELD

PARCHED

Director: Jay Schapiro 2014 USA/Uganda Luganda with English Subtitles, English Documentary Feature / 73 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Director: Leena Yadav 2015 India/ UK/ USA Hindi with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 116 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

In its nearly 70-year history, the Little League World Series has never hosted a team from Africa. Ugandan coach, George Mukhobe, mentoring his pre-teen players with a deep love and respect for America’s pastime, hopes to change that.

Deep in the deserts of Northern India, three women thirst for more than just a good source of water. On nearly every level, these women lack dignity and respect from the longtime patriarchal traditions of their rural community. A lush fable, at once tethered to a dusty, socially retrograde reality while embracing a vision of a future still under construction.

Wed 21 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Fri 23 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sun 25 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Wed 21 Sept, 8.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Sat 24 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

PRESOS (IMPRISONED)

VÍA CRUCIS (GOOD FRIDAY)

Director: Esteban Ramirez 2015 Costa Rica Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 97 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Harold De Vasten 2016S Columbia Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Feature / 97 minutes T+T PREMIERE

A young girl encounters unexpected, complex choices when she secretly befriends a prison inmate. Intrigued by him and his story, her neat, orderly existence soon begins to unravel.

On the morning of Good Friday, from the Colombian village of El Santisimo, Isabel and her husband Jesus are also hoping for a miracle - a cure for their young daughter who is chronically ill. A wry tale of an ordinary family’s struggle takes an unexpected turn due to the intervention of a strange vagabond.

Wed 21 Sept, 2.00pm, COSTAATT San Fernando Wed 21 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Wed 21 Sept, 8.15pm, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

Thu 22 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT San Fernando Fri 23 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

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shorts

10 MILES TO BULL BAY

A NICETERNOON

AMOUR BÉNI (BLESSED LOVE)

Director: Stephen Rudder 2016 Jamaica/UK Documentary Short /13 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: H. J. Leonard 2015 Puerto Rico Spanish with Subtitles Narrative Short / 9 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Kra Kouassi 2015 Guadeloupe French with English Subtitles Documentary Short / 22 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Xavi has a great surprise that he cannot wait to share with his girlfriend Gina. He endures a hellish afternoon as he runs into a number of obstacles before he can deliver the awesome news.

What if the potomitan woman of the creole imaginary were a man? Benjy is a stay-at-home father by conviction. The family’s daily life maintains the rhythm of his ideological and religious choices.

Fri 23 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Fri 23 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne Tobago Sat 24 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Wed 21 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT POS Fri 23 Sept, 2.30pm, UWI Film Programme Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sat 24 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Explore the teachings, philosophy and way of life of the Bobo Ashanti, one of the houses of Rastafari, revealed through the voices of the elder members. Filmed in the hills of Jamaica at the Bobo Ashanti ‘camp’, the community lives and works together in preparation for repatriation to Africa. Fri 23 Sept, 2.30pm, UWI Film Programme Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sat 24 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

AT STARDUST CAFÉ

ATTRACTION

Directors: Annabel Gueredat, Henri Tauliaut 2015 Guadeloupe French with English Subtitles Narrative Short / 7 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Jason Marcano 2015 T+T Documentary Short / 25 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Two protagonists dressed in a onepiece suit that covers their eyes and mouth enter into a bar and sit at a table. The reaction of the boss and his clients are surprising. This film captures the rainbow of feelings on people’s faces. Fri 23 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT POS Mon 26 Sept, 3:30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

20–27 september

This docudrama follows Elizabeth, who is enthralled by the concept of love and who desires to be in a relationship, but where should she start? What factors influence hetrosexual attraction? Facial Features? Physical appearance? Personality? Wed 21 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Thu 22 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sat 24 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

BAILA KU MI (DANCE WITH ME) Director: Sunil Mokkenstorm 2016 Netherlands Antilles Dutch and Papiamentu with English Subtitles Narrative Short / 10 minutes T+T PREMIERE This is a love story about a criminal who falls in love with a female filmmaker who wants to make a documentary about him. After he comes to terms with the life he is leading, he wants to change his way of life. Fri 23 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Mon 26 Sept, 8.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A

A PARADISE STOLEN Director: Linda Aïnouche 2015 Jamaica Documentary Short / 11 Minutes T&T PREMIERE Monty and Bill Howell recall their enchanted childhood in Pinnacle, a unique Rastarfari oasis. Their father, Leonard Howell, known as “The First Rasta”, was the first black man to purchase land under the British in 1939. The film reflects on the value of their their father’s teachings and provide a moving testimonial of the love and unity in the community created there. Fri 23 Sept, 2.30pm, UWI Film Programme Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

BEAR STORY Director: Gabriel Osorio 2016 Chile Spanish with English Subtitles Animated Short / 11 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE In this ingenious political allegory, a lonesome bear builds an elaborate mechanical diorama in an attempt to remember the life he used to live with his wife and son, before he was ripped from his home and sent to a circus. Presented by the Embassy of Chile. Wed 21 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT POS Thu 22 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.

BLACK KISS

CAPARAZÓN (SHELL)

CARATAL

COCODRILO

Director: Mariette Monpierre 2015 Guadeloupe Documentary / 35 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Joa Vidal 2015 Cuba Spanish, with English Subtitles Narrative Short / 13 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Kyle Mitchell 2016 T+T Documentary Short / 20 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Pietro Luigi Capoluongo 2015 Cuba Spanish with English Subtitles Documentary Short / 29 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Bruno, a young fisherman, struggles against the deadly pesticide chlordecone and the invasion of sargasso. He is determined to live his passion and make it as a fisherman in Guadeloupe in spite of his wife’s doubts and the bleak perspective of reconversion offered by the government. Thurs 22 Sept 3.30pm MovieTowne, Tobago

Rosa spends her time with her turtle in Havana. To celebrate her birthday, she bakes a cake, dresses up and invites people over, in order to share a single moment with her relatives who live in Miami. Thu 22 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Sun 25 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Mon 26 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

DERAKHT (THE TREE)

DIWALI: The Gift of Dance

Director: Roya Eshraghi Safaifard 2015 Cuba Spanish with English Subtitles Documentary Short / 14 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Steve James 2015 Guadeloupe French with English Subtitles Documentary Short /15 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Ibis has made her home amongst the debris of a ruined building. Her story led filmmaker Roya to a mysterious tree growing on the fifth floor of this abandoned place. This tree captures Roya’s curiosity, as she tries to uncover its mystery.

The Caribbean, more than a melting pot, a magical womb where cultures nurture each other like nowhere else in the world, where a Trinidadian of African descent can become a master of Indian Dance, where Tassa rhymes with Gwo Ka on a Diwali night ...

Mon 26 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Wed 21 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Fri 23 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT POS, Q+A Sun 25 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

John Agitation is a “superstar” of comedy in Trinidad and Tobago, and is considered to be the first stand-up comedian in the local arena. Get into the mind of this local legend as he recounts his past and about an unfortunate incident, which forced him to relocate from the community he knew and loved. Thu 22 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT Chaguanas, Q+A Thu 22 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago

Immigrants from the Cayman Islands were settled in Cocodrilo a hundred years ago. This film looks at the people who still live in this small village, with one foot already in Cuba and the other in the ocean. Thu 22 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT POS Tues 27 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

DREAM SELLER

EMPREINTE AMÉRINDIENNE (AMERINDIAN FOOTPRINT)

Director: Shane Lee Kit 2016 T+T Narrative Short / 7 minutes T+T PREMIERE A man catalogues a weekend that he spends with the girl of his dreams, showing all the things she does that makes him fall in love with her every time they are together. Does this perfect woman really exist? Or is she just a façade?

Director: Pierre-Nicolas Durand 2015, Martinique/Guadeloupe/ T+T/Dominica French with English Subtitles Documentary / 52 minutes T+T PREMIERE When the first Europeans discovered the Lesser Antilles archipelago, people had been living there for 2000 years. Journey with anthropologist Vanessa Demircyan, as she journeys on through the islands in search of their fingerprint.

Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A

Fri 23 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Mon 26 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago

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ENGANCHE (HOOK)

EVERBLESSED

GOOD OLE DAYS

H2O

Director: Edward Martinez 2015 USA Spanish with English Subtitles Narrative Short / 12 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Directors: Nile Saulter + Jeremy Relph 2016 Jamaica Documentary Short / 6 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Ayesha Jordan 2015 T+T Narrative Short / 5 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Clish A. Gittens 2015 Barbados Documentary Short / 10 minutes T+T PREMIERE

On the eve of his daughter’s birth on New Year’s night, a man must choose between his life of constant violence or new beginnings. Which does he choose?

Everblessed in an exploration of church and dancehall culture in Jamaica; a meditation on the sacred and the profane and the fine line between them.

An old woman gives a valuable glimpse into the past, as she recalls her experience as a little girl.

H2O highlights the impact of water sources and its management. Water, an essential to all life and its management, play a pivotal part in the physical and environmental wellbeing of all living things.

Sat 24 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Tue 27 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Wed 21 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT POS Thu 22 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Fri 23 Sept, 2.00pm, COSTAATT San Fernando Mon 26 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

HEART OF A MONSTER Director: Damian Marcano 2015 Curaçao Papiamentu with Subtitles Narrative Short / 15 minutes T+T PREMIERE A man goes out to battle a monster that has plagued his village for centuries. Heart of a Monster was filmed in Curaçao with the students of the Instituto Buena Bista. Sat 24 Sept, 10:30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

20–27 september

HOW WE PLAY WITH FIRE Director: Desiree Sampson 2016 T+T Documentary Short / 8 minutes WORLD PREMIERE Like moths to a flame, West Indian boys and grown men engage in a fiery game with their homemade cannons to see who is the loudest and greatest. And like any game of fire, this one sometimes ends in death. Fri 23 Sept, 2.00pm, COSTAATT San Fernando, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

Fri 23 Sept, 2.00pm, COSTAATT San Fernando, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

Thu 22 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Fri 23 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT San Fernando Sun 25 Sept, 4.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Mon 26 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago

ICEBERG

IDENTTY

Director: Juliana Gómez 2015 Cuba Spanish with English Subtitles Documentary Short / 27 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Directors: Dominic Koo + Jacob Cino 2016 T+T Narrative Short / 5 minutes T+T PREMIERE

In the absence of her daughter, Teresa, a fisherwoman in her sixties, lives between mourning her mother and raising her granddaughter who goes to a boarding school. She goes fishing every day with a makeshift raft with Diana, her dog and only companion.

Identty explores the various aspects of identity through non-indigenous forms of dance that reference Japanese butoh, contextualised in a Trinidadian environment. Does identity become hidden and transformed? And what does it mean in different environments?

Fri 23 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sat 24 Sept, 9.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Tue 27 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Wed 21 Sept, 8.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A

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IGNA

JUDY’S CHILD

LEGENDS REVISITTED

LIL BENNY

Director: Sandra Vivas 2015 Dominica Documentary Short / 10 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Directors: Ty Hodges, Jacqueline King-Howell 2016 USA Narrative Short / 20 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Directors: Joanne Haynes, Ka’en Haynes 2015 T+T Documentary Short / 35 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Director: Che Walker 2015 UK Narrative short / 11 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE

Madison has a firm routine in place for family, job and sleep, until a quick trip to her doctor destroys her routine and leaves her with a burden that is too heavy to carry alone. Drowning, she finds support in an unlikely place and confronts the reality of mortality.

Comprising five shorts inspired by the legends and history of Trinidad, and raising the issue of history’s (mis) interpretation of Caribbean people, Legends explores the reimagining of storytelling in a modern world and makes the statement that legends are a people’s creative history.

This is the story of one-handed yet physically unchallenged Igna, an unassuming single father of four, volunteer teacher, marine environment activist and Dominica’s best boat mechanic. Fri 23 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT Chaguanas Sun 25 Sept, 4.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Mon 26 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Wed 21 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Fri 23 Sept, 2.00pm, COSTAATT San Fernando, Q+A Sun 25 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Tue 27 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago

Set amid the harsh realities of urban poverty, Lil Benny is a modern love story gone terribly awry. In a rundown apartment a single mother is enjoying a precious moment of calm when she is startled by the sudden, violent appearance of her ex and baby’s father. Covered in blood and desperate for her help, Benny forces Sonia to grapple with the impossible choice between loyalty and security. Wed 21 Sept, 8.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Tue 27 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

LIVING WITHOUT YOU

LOST BOY

LOVE IS NO CRIME

MEL

Director: Anna-Lisa Wickham 2015 T+T Documentary Short / 17 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Aisha Porter-Christie 2015 Jamaica Narrative Short / 12 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Danielle Salloum 2016 T+T Documentary Short / 5 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Three individuals are forced to learn how to cope with a void, which stemmed from losing a person of significance. Each individual will share their personal experience and ways in which they dealt with their situation, in order to move forward with their own lives.

Approximately 150 children go missing in Jamaica every month. Each one has a story. Lost Boy tells the story of Peter Clarke, a 12-yearold Jamaican runaway, who sneaks back into to his hometown for what he assumes will be a routine visit with his best friend. Things don’t quite go according to plan ...

It is still illegal to be gay in 70+ countries, including Trinidad and Tobago. Love Is No Crime addresses this current issue, while advocating for change and promoting basic equal rights for all.

Directors: Renaldo Frederick, Michaela Spencer 2016 T+T Narrative / 60 minutes WORLD PREMIERE Mel tells the story of a young, working class Trinidadian woman, fighting with the demons of her abuse as a child, while trying to survive and take care of her drug addict brother, in a contemporary Trinidadian landscape.

Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A

Wed 21 Sept, 6.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Sun 25 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Thu 22 Sept, 9.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Sun 25 Sept, 9.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Tue 27 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Sat 24 Sept, 3.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A

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MEMORY LANE Director: Shari Petti 2015 T+T Narrative Short / 6 minutes T+T PREMIERE As Vanessa jogs past familiar locations, she recalls the bittersweet times she had with Darren. If we could only have this life for one more day! If we could only turn back time! Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A

NOU TOUT SÉ CARIBBEAN (WE ARE ALL CARIBBEAN)

Director: Orain-Chomaud Fabienne 2015 Guadeloupe Narrative Short / 19 minutes WORLD PREMIERE

Director: Steve James 2015 Guadeloupe French with English Subtitles Documentary Short / 28 minutes T+T PREMIERE Carifesta is the Caribbean’s greatest cultural event, a huge roving multidisciplinary festival. The latest edition of this mythical event took place in a country that is just as mythical, Haiti. To attend this exceptional event, Guadeloupe gathered an impressive delegation to present the best of its Arts and traditions.

Lili crosses Guadeloupe’s GrandeTerre on her moped navigating through cane fields and banana plantations, trying to find the church that she is to get married in. Time is going against her. Wed 21 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Sun 25 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Mon 26 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Wed 21 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Fri 23 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT POS, Q+A Sun 25 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

NUEVA YORKINO Director: Alejandro D. Orengo Colon 2015 Puerto Rico/USA Narrative Short / 5 minutes T+T PREMIERE Nuevo Yorkino explores the voyage of a Puerto Rican photographer to New York for the first time. He tries his best to enjoy and take the whole experience in, but his troubled past makes it difficult for him to look ahead to his future.

Sat 24 Sept, 8.15pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sun 25 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1 Tues 27 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

PANOMUNDO PART 1:

PLANTLORE

REDMAN

RÉV

Directors: Charysse Tia Harper, Keith Musaman Morton 2015 T+T/UK/US/Canada/ Japan/Nigeria/Switzerland Documentary / 42 minutes CARIBBEAN PREMIERE The steelpan can take the claim of being the only acoustic instrument invented in the 20th century. This first section of a two-part series highlights the precursors of the steelpan and the creation of the instrument. Steelpan legends, such as Ellie Mannette, Sterling Betancourt, Cliff Alexis and Ray Holman, explain the dynamics of the time.

Director: Neisha Agostini Irlacher 2016 T+T Documentary / 53 minutes WORLD PREMIERE Plantlore focuses on the history of the healing power of plants and herbs, as it explores the growing modern day trend of herbal remedies in lieu of traditional medicines.

Director: Jared Prima 2016 T+T Narrative Short / 15 minutes WORLD PREMIERE

Director: Meryam Joobeur 2015 Haiti French with English Subtitles Documentary Short / 17 minutes T+T PREMIERE

The Evolution Of The Steelpan

Thu 22 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT Chaguanas Thu 22 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

NIGHTMARE BEFORE WEDDING

20–27 september

Fri 23 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT San Fernando Fri 23 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

Jerry is confused about what women want. He uses the conventions of Reality TV and hangs out with three red men, with the hopes of being considered “red” by association. When this does not work, he transforms his dark skin colour and tries again. Wed 21 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Thu 22 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago, Q+A

It has been ten years since the seed of the Artists’ Institute was planted in Jacmel. Rév takes an intimate look at three young graduates of the Ciné Institute, Haiti’s only film school, as they reflect on their past, future, and relationship with art. Wed 21 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Mon 26 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.

RICO

SAVE THE SCENE

SO.C.13.TY

SMALL CHANGE

Director: Lynda D’Alexis 2015 Guadeloupe French with English Subtitles Narrative Short / 15 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Jian Hennings 2015 T+T Documentary Short / 26 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Khris Burton 2016 Martinique French with English Subtitles Narrative Short / 26 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Dylan Quesnel 2016 T+T Documentary Short / 20 minutes WORLD PREMIERE

10-year-old Lucius has grown attached to his little pig Rico. On overhearing his parents’ plan to kill Rico for Christmas dinner, he goes on a mission to prevent this traditional sacrifice from happening. Thu 22 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT Chaguanas Fri 23 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A

Save the Scene explores a short period in Trinidad and Tobago’s culture history where the musical underground was rapidly growing beyond the limitations of the label, where music was created via a desire to create, to comment on social injustices and emotional truths, and when the community supported and often protected the unapologetic music it loved. Fri 23 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT Chaguanas, Q+A

J0.hn, an emotionless and regulated citizen of THE CITY, awoke on a deserted island 10,000 miles away from any civilisation. Equipped with the R3G, a symbiotic watch ruled by a very advanced A.I that regulates and keeps him indefinitely “operational”. J0.hn starts to plan his own rescue, but things get radically complicated ...

Small Change looks at climate change within the Trinidad & Tobago context, with a focus on the present state of the local economy, and moves which can be made in the grassroots, private and public sectors to improve the existing state of the environment, while also having significant social and economic benefits for the country and people of T&T.

Fri 23 Sept, 10.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Mon 26 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A

Fri 23 Sept, 11.00am, COSTAATT San Fernando Fri 23 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Mon 26 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago

ST. LUCIA SPEAKS

STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT

SWEAT

SUPER ME

Directors: Nora Noone + Erica Moriarty 2016 St. Lucia / USA Documentary Short / 11 minutes WORLD PREMIERE

Director: Amrish Ramnarine 2015 USA Narrative Short / 6 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Josiah Persad 2016 T+T Narrative Short / 16 minutes WORLD PREMIERE

Director: Jaime Lee Loy 2015 T+T Documentary Short / 50 minutes

In a twist of fate, a young man encounters a woman he fancies in the elevator. She drops her apartment key, which he recovers. At first he tries to return it, but then he wonders if she wanted him to have it. When he arrives at her apartment a message is on the door, which reconfirms his suspicions. He enters the room and seduces the blindfolded woman, as her boyfriend arrives home …

After losing his parents in a car accident, Arshad finds difficulty in coping with his life. Despite the years that have passed by and the support of his older sister Shriya and best friend Riad, he turns to other means to fill this void. One bad choice can lead to a next…and a next…and a next. Is it too late?

From inside the Prime Minister’s office to St. Lucia’s most economically-depressed town, this documentary explores the issue of violence against women. Is there a link with the Caribbean’s colonial past? Mon 26 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Tue 27 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Thu 22 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Sun 25 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

Thu 22 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT POS, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 3.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A

Meet 13 young superheroes from Trinidad and Tobago. At a time when their nation and world is in crisis, these young heroes discuss their individual powers, their methods of coping with adversity, and their personal solutions for positive change. Sat 24 Sept, 10.30am, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Tues 27 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago

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THE ABSENTEE

THE DYING SWAN – Ras Nijinsky In Drag As Pavlova

THE HARMONIUM DOCTOR

Director: Kyle Sahadeo 2016 T+T Documentary Short / 22 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Christopher Laird 2016 T+T Documentary Short / 10 minutes INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Director: Jabari Fraser 2015 T+T Documentary Short / 5 minutes

Three University students from different walks of life share their experiences of growing up without the presence of their biological father. These students dig deep within, as they reveal how it has affected them.

After ten years, internationally acclaimed mas artist, Peter Minshall, reinterprets Mikhail Fokine’s classic ballet, The Dying Swan, for a ‘Moko Jumbie’ (a stilt dancer) in drag. This film chronicles the assemblage and performance of this mas at the King of Carnival competition in February 2016.

Thurs 22 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT POS, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Tue 27 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2

Thur 22 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Sun 25 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A

Directors: Elizabeth Cadiz Topp + Alex de Verteuil 2016 T+T Documentary Short / 35 minutes INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE What goes on behind the closed doors in the Cabinet? Stephen Cadiz talks with candour, humour and humility, about the world of the neophyte government minister, who must leave behind the straightforward pragmatism of the businessman for the lobbying and jockeying of the politician, or, as he puts it, the ‘hacking through tall grass’. Wed 21 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT Chaguanas Fri 23 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

THE NET SUM OF LIFE

THE NOWARIAN

THE STORY OF HER

THE WAREHOUSE

Director: Charlene McMuffin Modeste 2016 T+T Narrative / 43 minutes INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Director: Amir Aether Valen Ali 2016 T+T Narrative Short / 6 minutes INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Director: Tyker Phillip 2016 T+T Narative short / 14 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Stephen Hadeed Jr. 2016 T+T Narrative Short / 15 minutes T+T PREMIERE

The Nowarian is an artistic, solemn and nostalgic character piece about a young boy and his introspective journey as he tries to get a grip on his life and embraces his existence.

The Story of Her features a “love triangle” between a Hip Hop artiste and two women that he works with. This film explores how quickly things can change in a relationship, especially when you do not know the full story. We can all be “her”!

Two men must work together, after they wake up in a warehouse without any memory of who they are or how they got there.

Heather Weir is a typical teenager who can’t seem to get her priorities right. In order to make her father proud, she wants to achieve academic success. However, she is hell bent on finding romance over the Internet. Wed 21 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Thu 22 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Tue 27 Sept, 8.30 MovieTowne Tobago

Have you ever heard of a harmonium repairman? Balkrishna Pirmal fixes the “Chutney Instrument” with innovation and precision that has made him popular throughout the Caribbean and North America. This is his story.

THE HONOURABLE

20–27 september

Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A

Wed 21 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Thu 22 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sat 24 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

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THE WITNESS

THIS CONNECT

VOICES FROM THE SEA

WELCOMING ARMS

Director: Jared Prima 2015 T+T Narrative / 44 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Renaldo “Red” Frederick 2015 T+T Narrative Short / 6 minutes WORLD PREMIERE

Director: Steve Hernandez 2016 T+T Greek, German and Hindi with English Subtitles Documentary Short / 11 minutes

Director: Rosanne Ma 2015 Bermuda Documentary Short / 9 minutes T+T PREMIERE

John is in a secret, romantic relationship with Lorraine, who happens to be his best friend’s wife. He finds himself in the closet when Randall makes an unplanned home visit, and witnesses Randall kill his wife. This murder reveals a web of hidden details from the past and John becomes a not so innocent bystander which turns spouses and best friends against each other.

As Nailah disposes the ashes of her father, she recalls the telephone conversations she had with him and reflects on their estranged relationship that was filled with broken promises. She seeks to finally move on, releasing her father in death, to relieve his absence in her life.

The sea has been responsible for claiming the lives of many people. This experimental film explores the mystery of the sea, by examining the issue of drowning, but from the observer’s point of view. In turn, the sea “responds” to the perceptions of the observers by giving and account of its mysterious nature.

Welcoming Arms follows 92-yearold Johnny, whose mission is to spread happiness. He has been blowing kisses to traffic 6 hours a day, 5 days a week for 30 years. Hear the unique perspectives from young children around the area.

Wed 21 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Wed 21 Sept, 8.15pm, MovieTowne Tobago Fri 23 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A

Fri 23 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sun 25 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A

Wed 21 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2, Q+A Thu 22 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago, Q+A Sat 24 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago, Q+A

Thu 22 Sept, 6.00pm, COSTAATT POS Fri 23 Sept, 3.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 2 Tue 27 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

JAFTA PROPELLA – New Shorts from Jamaica 60 minutes / WORLD PREMIERE Wed 21 Sept, 3.00pm, COSTAATT POS Fri 23 Sept, 8.45pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1, Q+A Mon 26 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago

WHEN THE LIONFISH CAME

WHO I SAY I AM

Director: Tamika Galanis 2016 The Bahamas Narrative Short / 6 minutes T+T PREMIERE

Director: Amir Aether Valen Ali 2016 T+T Documentary / 30 minutes INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

When the Lionfish Came counters the paradisiacal view of the Bahamas. It explores the parity in exploitation between the population and the natural environment in the face of climate change and neocolonialism.

Does your name define who you are? In an attempt to find his own identity, Amir goes out on a quest to discover what the names of people across all facets of society mean to them in relation to their identity and sense of self.

Fri 23 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, MovieTowne POS Screen 1

Fri 23 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne Tobago Sat 24 Sept, 1.00pm, UWI Film Programme, Q+A

ORIGINS Director: Kurt Wright

A hero from Jamaica’s past is pulled from “The Keep”, a realm of myth and legend, to defeat an evil witch who has escaped the confines of her own story. A character driven, supernatural fantasy steeped in Jamaican folklore, set in modern times, with a Tarantino’esque visual style. SHOCK VALUE Director: Adrian Lopez

A loving young woman determined to save her marriage learns the true cost of misplaced faith and duplicity when forces align to destroy everything she holds dear. SHOOT THE GIRL Director: Natalie Thompson

Twelve-year-old Likkle Bit uses her brain to beat brawn and her cell phone camera to trap Satan, her father’s murderer. SUGAR Director: Michelle Serieux

A young black Jamaican girl from the underclass and on the brink of womanhood works at a Jamaican resort where she witnesses tourists’ affluence on a daily basis. As the de facto breadwinner for her very large family, she faces a crisis of conscience when a tourist couple seems to be the answer to her financial predicament. SILENT HEARTS Director: Gregory Lopez

A Jamaican school girl from a rural town is abducted by two men in a taxi on her way home from school with a friend. A businessman whose car has broken down and a roadside vendor witness two separate moments of the abduction. The film explores the thought processes of these two witnesses as the crime happens and the terrible consequences of their actions.

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NEW MEDIA LAUNCH WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER, 7.00PM | BIG BLACK BOX Murray Street, Woodbrook. FOOD FOR WEAPONS Food For Weapons showcases contemporary works by artists working on the current manipulation of power in Venezuela and its relationship to the body. The current regime in Venezuela has fabricated an extensive list of methods to keep control of the people and prevent them from uprising. Besides food, medicines, water and power shortages, the Venezuelan government controls most mass media resulting in a univocal, repetitive discourse in which the only valid voice is the one of the government in an attempt to destroy diversity of opinion. The works presented here in Trinidad question the manipulation of power through intimate narratives, touching issues of violence, genre and memory, and undermining established discourses that are either taboo or simply ignored. Several of the artists in this exhibit have been politically persecuted by the current regime in Venezuela for their works - some of which are deliberately shocking and are only suitable for a mature audience. This show is also about violence and its relationship to the body. All of the artists in this exhibit work with their body as an instrument. The body has always been the battleground where violence is enacted. Whether through instrument of hunger, torture or menace, it is in the body upon which violence is enacted. It is also upon the body that concepts of beauty are imposed ... These artists believe that the body can be a channel of liberation, and it is a democratic, universal, and accessible to all. The title Food For Weapons, food for thought, refers not only to the food shortages and violence situation in Venezuela, but also that ideas can be seen as food, that we need to reflect in what is happening in Venezuela and not repeat the same (errors) mistakes here. A reminder that hunger can be both a dangerous oppressor and the most dramatic motivator for ultimate liberation. The idea that ideas can be both food for thought and thoughts can be weapons of change.

EPISTOLARY 2016 / 2’42” Max Provenzano Epistolary is a reflection on the Venezuelan violence situation. In this work, the explicit sexual connotations creates a dual discourse on submission and power, pleasure as shown in porn iconography and pleasure as it relates to power. Most of Venezuelan feel they have no control on how to stop the current violence spiral, the access to guns keeps increasing and so do robberies and murders.

MIGRACION SELECTIVA 2 (SELECTIVE MIGRATION 2) Luis Poleo 2015 / 1’15” The apparent comedic nature of this animation is loaded with references from Art and Venezuelan History: the main character is heavily ‘migrating’ along with the weight of a history that is cyclically repeated. The ‘messiah’ is represented by the ‘King Vulture’ which is a repeated figure in LatinAmerican Art Iconography, the ‘new hero’ is the focal point, and it illustrates the cult to the personality and caricatures the promotion of the past as the only solution for the future.

Sandra Vivas, Experimental Filmmaker +Curator

R.E.D. 2014 / 3’ Raul Rodriguez This gif is an animation made out of 300 photograms as a critical apology to the violent saturation and objectification of the human being in Venezuela. It illustrates the multiplication of anti-social beings stripped of their own thoughts, animals trained to execute and repeat actions.

20–27 september

ICHTYS II 2014 / 4’09” Carlos Salazar Lermont With the screen split in half, the artist simultaneously performs the same action on himself and on a fish, pressing his finger for several minutes to contrast life and death, using symbols related to Christian iconography as a form of exorcism of the cultural weight of martyrdom and guilt.

MARX PALIMPSESTO 2015/4’ Deborah Castillo In this performance/installation/ video the artist erases quotes from Marx written on the walls and floor with an eraser, also made also by the artist, with the shape of Marx’s head. The written text is replaced by the gesture, the action and becomes a perennial movement, a forever unfinished process, a discourse that deconstructs itself and dissolves the separation between a corporeal action and written text.

OBLIVION 2016 / 7’ 37” ’ Anna Rosa Rodriguez In this intimist and poetic performance/video, Rodriguez documents non verbal experiences of abuse without using any violence or directly addressing the issue. In this case, the mapping of personal memory becomes a transgression against amnesia and the mass produced messages of collective memory.

CETRINEZ (SALLOW) 2012/56” Erika Ordosgoitti By urinating directly into the camera, in a supine angle, the artist distorts the image of the vulva and turns it into something unintelligible, while playing with the sound of the stream. Breaking behavioral codes assigned by society in surprisingly simple gestures has always been the strategy of Ordosgoitti, in this case we also find it reminiscent of ‘The Origin of the World’ by Courbet.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 9.00PM ‘LIGHT’ BY NORTH ELEVEN North Eleven projection artists are especially interested in the interaction between visuals and how the audience interact with them. Working with multiple technologies and interfaces and always searching for new ways of incorporating creative use of digital technology into their work, they are always in a state of flux and their work constantly evolves. “What we created yesterday, we may never create again.”

Guests at 2014 New Media Interactive Yard

New Media is a collection of artists’ works that explore a range of themes and issues, while pushing and blurring the boundaries of what we understand by art, employing media such as film, video, photography, sound, digital technology, installations and performances.

“Light” will produce a live audio-visual performance for New Media ttff16. The performance will incorporate projection mapping & murals, live digital graffiti & motion design, and live visuals. From lo-tech local art mediums such as pieces of string, paper, wire mesh and cardboard, to the latest audio-visual applications and collaborations with fellow artists, illustrators, painters and musicians, North Eleven will create stunning mixed media artwork.

ALL NEW MEDIA EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Technical support for New Media is generously provided by North Eleven, official projection partners of the ttff.

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20–27 september

edric connor: a man of many parts

6.00PM EDRIC CONNOR: A MAN OF MANY PARTS Ray Funk and Bruce Paddington will present a compilation of film clips illustrating Edric Connorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustrious and complex life and career. Musicians from The University of Trinidad and Tobago will play some of the music featured in this presentation. Edric Connor (1913-1968) was born in Mayaro, Trinidad, but emigrated to England as a young man where he had a trail-blazing career as a singer, folklorist, actor and filmmaker. As an actor he appeared in films and a number of British TV shows, musicals and plays on the British stage. He is noted for being in such Hollywood blockbusters as Moby Dick (where he persuaded the director to include a Jamaican folk song into the soundtrack), Fire Down Below, starring Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth, shot in Trinidad and Tobago, and everything from a religious epic like King of Kings to a western Four for Texas with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Later in life, he took up filmmaking and made short films on cricket and Trinidad Carnival. He recorded folk songs, spirituals, and calypsos. He also was involved in bringing limbo and steelband to the stage as well as, helping the Trinidad and Tobago All Steel-Percussion Orchestra when it performed at the Festival of Britain, London in 1951 and much more.

Ray Funk

Ray Funk Is a retired Alaska trial judge who has been coming to Trinidad for two decades with a passion for calypso, steelpan, Carnival and Trinidad culture. His presentations on Carnival culture is a popular staple of ttffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Carnival film Series. He has written many articles, co-authored books, worked on films and exhibits, given talks in several countries and was recently awarded a Fulbright scholarship.

Musicians: Krisson Joseph (voice), Simon Browne (arranger/violin) and faculty musicians from UTT Academy for the Performing Arts. Presented in partnership with The National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago.

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time

venue

wednesday 21 sept

thursday 22 sept

friday 23 sept

10.30 am

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 1

3 Beauties 97'

H2O 20' + Landfill Harmonic 84'

Rico 15' Q+A + La Vie Pure/Pure Life 100'

1.00 pm

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 1

Legends Revisited 35' Q+A + Opposite Field 74'

Caparazón/Shell 13' + Esteban 92'

Diwali: the Gift of Dance 15' Q+A + Nou tout sé Caribbean 28' Q+A + Make Mine country 69'

3.30 pm

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 1

This Connect 6' Q+A + Presos 97'

Everblessed 6' + Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise 114' Q+A

Baila Ku Mi/Dance with Me 10' Q+A + La Familia Reyna 90'

6.00 pm

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 1

Redman 15' q+a + Attraction 20' Q+A + The Warehouse 15' Q+A + The Net Sum of Life 43' Q+A

6.30pm: The Harmonium Doctor 5' Q+A + Dheepan 115'

El Abrazo del Serpiente 122’ Q+A

8.30 pm

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 1

8.45pm: Identty 9' Q+A + Parched 118'

9.00pm: Love is No Crime 6' + El Acompanante 114'

8.45pm: JAFTA Propella: New Jamaican Shorts 60' Q+A

10.30 pm

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 1

10.30 am

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 2

Romeo and Juliet 118'

Cafe Amargo/Bitter Coffee 95'

A Niceternoon 9' + Via Crucis/Good Friday 97' Q+A

1.00 pm

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 2

Nightmare Before Wedding 20' + Rev 17' + Si Bondye Yuli/God Willing, Yuli 70'

Bear Story 11' + Invasion 94'

Small Change 20' Q+A + Plantlore 52' Q+A + Amerindian Footprint 52'

3.30 pm

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 2

Witness 20' Q+A + Sanskara 97' Q+A

The Dying Swan 10' Q+A + Sweet Bottom 94' Q+A

3.45pm: Welcoming Arms 9' + Gente de Bien/ Decent People 86'

6.00 pm

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 2

6.30pm: Lost Boy 12' + Lamb 94'

Strangers in the Night 6' + Vuelos Prohibidos 115'

Panomundo 42' + The Honourable 35' Q+A

8.30 pm

MOVIETOWNE POS SCREEN 2

8.45pm: Lil Benny 11' + Mustang 97'

Mountains May Depart 151'

This Connect 6' Q+A + Presos 97' Q+A

10.30 am

MOVIETOWNE TOBAGO

Othello 123'

Battledream Chronicle 108'

A Niceternoon 9' + Via Crucis/Good Friday 97'

1.00 pm

MOVIETOWNE TOBAGO

3.30 pm

MOVIETOWNE TOBAGO

Diwali: The Gift of Dance 15' + Nou tout sé Caribbean 28' + Make Mine Country 69'

Caratal 20' + Black Kiss 35' + Panomundo 42'

Who I Say I Am 30' + Opposite Field 74'

6.00 pm

MOVIETOWNE TOBAGO

Every Cook Can Govern 121'

Sweat 15' + Kenke/Weed 80'

When the Lionfish Came 6' + Voices from the Sea 11' + Diva: Enemy of the people 95'

8.00 pm

MOVIETOWNE TOBAGO

8.15pm: This Connect 6' + Presos 97'

Redman 15' Q+A + Witness 20' Q+A + The Attraction 20' + The Warehouse 15'

Iceberg 27' + A Monster with a Thousand Heads 74'

12.00 pm

UWI - FILM PROGRAMME

1.00 pm

UWI - FILM PROGRAMME

2.30 pm

UWI - FILM PROGRAMME

5.00 pm

UWI - FILM PROGRAMME

7.00 pm

UWI - FILM PROGRAMME

20–27 september

SO.C1.3TY 26' Q+A + Tomb 84' Q+A

Ninth Floor 82' Q+A

10 Miles to Bull Bay 13' + A Paradise Stolen 11' + Blessed Love 22' + Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess 59' Q+A

Sanskara 97' Q+A

Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.

saturday 24 sept

sunday 25 sept

monday 26 sept

tuesday 27 sept

Heart of a Monster 14' + Battledream Chronicle 108'

Lost Boy 12' Q+A + Lamb 97'

Richard III 104'

The Tempest 94'

When the Lionfish Came 6' + Timeless 113' Q+A

Voices from the Sea 11' Q+A + Diva: Enemy of the people 95'

Nightmare Before Wedding 20' + Rev 17' + Si Bondye Yuli/God Willing, Yuli 70'

St. Lucia Speaks 11' + Ixcanul 100'

3.45pm: Sweat 15' Q+A + Kenke/Weed 80'

Caparazón/Shell 13' + Esteban 92' Q+A

Judy's Child 20' + Cafe Amargo/Bitter Coffee 95'

Love is No Crime 6' + El Acompanante 114'

Identty 9' Q+A + Parched 118'

8.45pm: Nuevo Yorkino 5' + Antes que Cante el Gallo 97' Q+A

SO.C13.TY 26' Q+A + Tomb 84' Q+A

Lil Benny 11' + Mustang 97'

9.00pm: Iceberg 27' + A Monster with a Thousand Heads 74' Q+A

The Harmonium Doctor 5' Q+A + Dheepan 115'

8.45pm: Baila Ku Mi/Dance with Me 10’ Q+A + La Familia Reyna 90’

Hook 12' + Miles Ahead 100'

Good Ole Days 8' Q+A + How we Play with Fire 8' Q+A + Super Me 50' Q+A

Legends Revisited 35' Q+A + Opposite field 74'

As You Like It 127'

Cocodrilo 29' + Gente de Bien 86'

The Absentee 22' Q+A + In a Perfect World 76’ Q+A

Mountains May Depart 151'

Derakht /The Tree 14' + Ninth Floor 82'

The Absentee 22' + In a Perfect World 76’

10 Miles to Bull Bay 13' + Blessed Love 22' + Queen Nanny: Legendary Warrior Chieftainess 59' Q+A

4.00pm: Igna 10' Q+A H2O 20' Q+A + Landfill Harmonic 84'

At Stardust Cafe 7' Q+A + 3 Beauties 97'

Nuevo Yorkino 5' + Antes que Cante el Callo 97' Q+A

A Niceternoon 9' + Via Crucis/Good Friday 97' Q+A

6.30pm: Play the Devil Q+A

The Cutlass 105' Q+A

Mary Kom 122'

Hook 12' + Miles Ahead 100'

9.00pm: Love is No Crime 6' + El Acompanante 114' Q+A

St. Lucia Speaks 11’ + Ixcanul 100’

Iceberg 27' + Monster with a Thousand Heads 74' Q+A

Landfill Harmonic 84'

The Tempest 94'

10 Miles to Bull Bay 13' + A Paradise Stolen 11' + Blessed Love 22' + Queen Nanny: Legendary Warrior Chieftainess 59'

1:00pm: Diwali: The Gift of Dance 15' + Nou tout sé Caribbean 28' + Make Mine Country 69'

The Dying Swan 10' + Sweet Bottom 94'

Nightmare Before Wedding 20' + Si Bondye Yuli/God Willing, Yuli 70'

H2O 20' + Small Change 20' + Amerindian Footprint 52'

Legends Revisited 35' + Super Me 50'

Redman 15' Q+A + Witness 20' Q+A + The Attraction 20' + The Warehouse 15'

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise 114'

Everblessed 6' + JAFTA Propella: New Jamaican Shorts 60'

Welcoming Arms 11' + Timeless 113'

8.15pm: Nueva Yorkino 5' + Antes que Cante el Gallo 97'

Strangers in the Night 6' + Vuelos Prohibidos 115'

Caparazón/Shell 13' + Esteban 92'

8.30pm: The Dying Swan 10' + Sweet Bottom 94'

The Nowarian 6' Q+A + Memory Lane 6' Q+A + Dream Seller 7' Q+A + The Story of Her 14' Q+A + Living Without You 17' Q+A + Who I say I am 30' Q+A 3pm Mel 67' Q+A

The Cutlass 105' Q+A Tomb 84' Q+A

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time

venue

3.00 pm

UWI - NOOR HASSANALI AUDITORIUM

Battledream Chronicle 108'

5.00 pm

UWI - NOOR HASSANALI AUDITORIUM

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise 114' Q+A /PANEL DISCUSSION

5.00 pm

UWI - CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING (CLL)

11.00 am

COSTAATT, PORT OF SPAIN

Othello 123'

Cocodrilo 29' + Gente de Bien/ Decent People 86'

Romeo and Juliet 118'

3.00 pm

COSTAATT, PORT OF SPAIN

Everblessed 6' + Blessed Love 22' + JAFTA Propella: New Jamaican Shorts 60'

The Absentee 22' Q+A + In a Perfect World Q+A

Diwali: The Gift of Dance 15' + At Stardust Cafe 7' + Nou tout sé Caribbean 28' Q+A

6.00 pm

COSTAATT, PORT OF SPAIN

Bear Story 11' + Invasion 84'

Welcoming Arms 11' + Timeless 113' Q+A

Sweat 15' + Kenke/Weed 80'

11.00 am

COSTAATT, SAN FERNANDO

The Tempest 94'

Via Crucis/Good Friday 97'

H2O 20' + Small Change 20' + Plantlore 52'

2.00 pm

COSTAATT, SAN FERNANDO

Presos 97'

Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess 59'

Good Ole Days 8' Q+A + How We Play with Fire 8' Q+A + Everblessed + Legends Revisited 35' Q+A

11.00 am

COSTAATT, CHAGUANAS

As You Like It 127'

Caratal 20' Q+A + Panomundo 42'

Igna 10' + Invasion 84'

3.00 pm

COSTAATT, CHAGUANAS

The Honourable 35'

Landfill Harmonic 84'

3 Beauties 97'

6.00 pm

COSTAATT, CHAGUANAS

Mary Kom 122'

Rico 15' + La Vie Pure/Pure Life 100'

Save the Scene 26' Q+A + Make Mine Country 69'

6.00 pm

AKIMBO BOUTIQUE

12.00 pm

OWTU HEADQUARTERS

6.00 pm

THE LITTLE CARIB THEATRE

7.00 pm

BIG BLACK BOX

9.00 pm

BIG BLACK BOX

6.00 pm

TRINIDAD THEATRE WORKSHOP

20–27 september

wednesday 21 sept

thursday 22 sept

friday 23 sept

Every Cook Can Govern 121’ Q+A/ PANEL DISCUSSION

New Media 1: Food for Weapons

King Lear 180'

Screenings are subject to change, so please check our website before attending a screening.

saturday 24 sept

sunday 25 sept

monday 26 sept

tuesday 27 sept

Diva: Enemy of the People 95' Every Cook Can Govern 121' Q+A/ PANEL DISCUSSION Edric Connor: A man of many parts

New Media 2: “Light’ by North Eleven

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index of films 28 22 22 28 28 18 25 28 28 28 18 28 29 28 18 29 29 37 29 23 18 29 29 23 33 33 29 34 19 36 30

10 Miles to Bull Bay 3 Beauties A Monster with a Thousand Heads A Niceternoon A Paradise Stolen Antes que Cante el Callo (Before the Rooster Sings) At Stardust Cafe Attraction Baila Kum Mi (Dance With Me) Battledream Chronicle Bear Story Black Kiss Blessed Love Cafe Amargo ( Bitter Coffee) Carapazón (Shell) Caratal Cetrinez (Sallow) Cocodrilo Deephan Diva: Enemy of the People Diwali: The Story of Dance Dream Seller El Abrazo del Serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent) El Acompañante (The Companion) Empreinte Amérindienne (Amerindian Fingerprint) Esteban Epistolary Everblessed

20–27 september

23 23 27 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 24 36 24 24 35 31 24 19 19 25 25 31 31 31 31 31 20 36 25 25

Every Cook Can Govern Gente de Bien (Decent People) Good Friday Good Ole Days H2O Heart of a Monster Hook How We Play with Fire Iceberg Identty Igna In a Perfect World Ichthys II Invasion Ixcanul JAFTA Propella Judy’s Child Kenke (Weed) La Familia Reyna La Vie Pure (Pure Life) Lamb Landfill Harmonic Legends Revisited Lil Benny Living Without You Lost Boy Love is No Crime Make Mine Country Marx Palimpsest Mary Kom Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

31 32 26 26 26 32 26 32 32 37 27 32 27 32 20 27 20 36 32 32 33 20 33 36 21 33 33 33 33

Mel Memory Lane Miles Ahead Mountains May Depart Mustang Nightmare Before Wedding Ninth Floor Nou Tout Sé Caribbean (We Are All Caribbean) Nuevo Yorkino Oblivion Opposite Field Panomundo: The Story of Pan Part 1 Parched Plantlore Play the Devil Presos (Imprisoned) Queen Nanny: Legendary Warrior Chieftainess Red Redman Rév Rico Sanskara Save the Scene Selective Migration Si Bondye Vie Yuli (God Willing, Yuli) Small Change SO.C13.TY St.Lucia Speaks Strangers in the Night

33 33 21 34 21 34 34 34 34 34 34 29 34 35 35 21 22 35 22 35 35 35

Super Me Sweat Sweet Bottom The Absentee The Cutlass The Dying Swan – Ras Nijinsky in drag as Pavlova The Harmonium Doctor The Honourable The Net Sum of Life The Nowarian The Story of Her The Tree The Warehouse The Witness This Connect Timeless Tomb Voices from the Sea Vuelos Prohibidos (Forbidden Journeys) Welcoming Arms When the Lionfish Came Who I Say I am

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20–27 september