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UWI Film Programme - Screenings & Workshops

For Release Upon Receipt - September 19, 2011

St. Augustine


The UWI Film Programme will collaborate with the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival to host a series of screenings and workshops at the St. Augustine Campus from September 22nd to October 1st, 2011. 

The event seeks to bring some of the best works being shown at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival to the UWI Campus for the enjoyment of students, staff and the general public. This year’s programme places special emphasis on Caribbean films (all of the region’s major language groups are featured), and features key speakers Dr. James Prakash Younger, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Trinity College, USA and acclaimed, prize winning author and screenwriter Chris Browne. 

 

The schedule of events includes:

September 22

  1. Guest Lecture: “Sholay, the Western and Global Postmodernity”                       
  2. Dr. James Prakash Younger, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Trinity College, USA
  3. Institute of Critical Thinking, UWI St. Augustine – UWI Film students only

 

September 23

  1. Screenings
  2. Institute of Critical Thinking, UWI St. Augustine

 

September 23

  1. Screenings
  2. Arcon II Parking Lot, School of Education

 

September 24

  1. Writing & Directing Workshop                       
  2. With Chris Browne, Jamaican Director of Ghetta Life
  3. Arcon II Studio, School of Education, UWI St. Augustine

 

September 24

  1. Student & Staff Films                       
  2. With Chris Browne, Jamaican Director of Ghetta Life
  3. Arcon II Parking Lot, School of Education

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September 26

  1. Film Directing Workshop                       
  2. With Pim de le Parra, Surinamese Director of Wan Pipel
  3. Arcon II Studio, School of Education, UWI St. Augustine – UWI Film students only

 

September 30

  1. Screenings & Panel Discussion
  2. Institute of Critical Thinking, UWI St. Augustine

 

October 1     

  1. Screenings
  2. Centre for Language Learning, UWI St. Augustine 

 

The full programme with show names and times can be viewed on the UWI Film Programme website at http://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/film/events.asp. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. The Writing and Directing Workshop with Chris Browne, will cost TT$200 payable to the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. 

For further information on the Screening Event, please contact Dr. Christopher Meir at Christopher.meir@sta.uwi.edu or at ext. 84233 or 83890.  

 

About UWI

Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

 

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