Event

UWI at ttff - World premiere of Bottom in De Road

Event Date(s): 26/09/2015

Location: The UWI Film Programme Building, 12 Carmody St, St. Augustine


The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (ttff) 2015 takes place from September 15 to 29. Among this year's films will be the world premiere of the medium-length documentary – Bottom in de Road (50 mins) by directors – Oyetayo Ojoade and Sharon Syriac.

Oyetayo Ojoade has a BA in Film from the University of the West Indies. He is the director of the short documentary films Who Let the Dogs Out?(ttff/08), Shouters and the Control Freak Empire (ttff/10), and co-director of The Madonna Murti (ttff/11), as well as the short fiction film Suck Meh Soucouyant, Suck Meh (ttff/09). Bottom in de Road is his most recent film.R. Anderson Edghill, from Antigua, is a student at the Film Programme of the University of the West Indies. He has a background in television news reporting.

Sharon Syriac is a lecturer in Communications at the University of Trinidad and Tobago and a Postgraduate student of Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies. She is the co-director of The Madonna Murti and Bottom in de Road. 

The screening takes place at 5pm followed by a Q&A session. All screenings at The UWI Film Programme Building is free, but limited seats are available.

This movie will be screened along with a series of other short and medium-length films, for more information, please click here

For more information on other UWI-related films, please click here.

 

Admission:Free

Open to: | General Public | Staff | Student | Alumni |


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