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August 2009
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Screenings for Film Festival
Students with work to show are Thomas Jemmerson (Queen of the Brands), Roger Alexis (The Contemporary Sorcerer), Oyetayo Ojoade (Suck meh Soucouyant), Jimmel Daniel and Renee Pollonais (Power of the Vagina), Solange Plaza (Racing Definitions). A collective of students from the final year will be represented by the film Sans Souci, written and directed by Francesca Hawkins. Bury Your Mother, an experimental film by UWI alumnus Jaime Lee Loy will also be shown. In addition to the student screenings, filmmaker and lecturer in the Film Programme, Robert Yao Ramesar will be screening his feature film Sistagod II: Her Second Coming, while Coordinator of the Film Programme, Dr Jean Antoine-Dunne’s documentary on Prof Gordon Rohlehr will be shown. Prof Patricia Mohammed’s film about Indo-Trinidadian culture, Coolie Pink and Green, will be shown, as well as a film about VS Naipaul by Dr Bhoe Tewarie. Noted British documentary filmmaker Adam Low will attend on Thursday 24, for a screening of his film about acclaimed Indian director Satyajit Ray (Ray’s debut film, the classic, Pather Panchali, will follow). A number of filmmakers from the black British film collective, BFM, will screen some of their films on Friday evening. During the day, screenings take place at the Centre for Language Learning, at the St Augustine campus, and on evenings, they will be outdoors at the new Film Programme location on Carmody Street in St Augustine. The screenings take place on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September and are free and open to the public.
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Works from students of The UWI’s Film Programme are among a range of films, including feature-length narratives, documentaries, experimental films and short films, to be screened in preparation for the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival 09.