SUNDAY 3RD APRIL, 2016 – UWI TODAY
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THE ARTS
The showcase event
o f The UWI F i lm
P r o g r amme’s 1 0 t h
anniversary celebrations
is its inaugural World
Festival of Emerging
Cinema from May 19-
22, 2016. The Festival’s
missionis tohelpprepare
future filmmakers as an
internationally mobile
workforce collaborating
with their counterparts
from around the world.
This festival will
provide a plat form
for the cultivation of
mu l t i n a t i on a l c o -
productions with the
Caribbean, involving filmmakers operating in various
specialized roles and spheres of production activity.The aim
is to increasingly locate the region in general andThe UWI’s
Film Programme in particular, as centres of international
film activity, culture and industry.
The theme for this inaugural World Festival of
Emerging Cinema is
Feasting on Film
. Emerging cinema
in this instance is about the diverse visions of individual
filmmakers from around the globe. The UWI’s World
Festival of Emerging Cinema will screen some of the
best works by contemporary filmmakers, representing all
continents, regions and national cinemas, with selected
directors in attendance and participating with their regional
peers in the discussion and planning of international
productions.
The festival received 691 submissions from76 countries
including Albania, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain,
Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, Congo, Croatia, Estonia,
Ethiopia, Haiti, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon,
Luxemburg, Morocco, Palestine, Philippines, Reunion
Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South
Africa, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey and
Ukraine.
Among the submissions were three animated features,
54 animated shorts, 80 documentary features, 124
documentary shorts, 40 narrative features and 390 narrative
shorts.
“Caribbean Man No. 2 (1983)” by Stanley Greaves,
one of the Caribbean’s most accomplished artists has been
selected as the festival’s poster. The image was deemed
ideal, thematically and compositionally, the dynamic
range of color impacting on any scale and the street vendor
presenting wares iconic in the Caribbean space -- in this
case presenting cinema wares from around the world. The
frames of his lenses speak to the lens, the eye, the camera
and the projector.
Over the years, The UWI Film Programme has hosted
myriad film festivals including the Trinidad and Tobago
Film Festival, the Green Screen Film Festival, Africa
Film Trinidad and Tobago Festival and the Africa World
Documentary Film Festival. The Indian High Commission
also collaborates with the Programme which hosts its
Indian
Cine Club.
Students of the Programme have won numerous awards
for their films which have screened locally, regionally and
internationally to consistent acclaim.
Festival founder and Coordinator of The UWI Film
Programme, Yao Ramesar promises “a veritable feast of
cinema. The Festival programmers composed mainly of
alumni of the Programme were immersed for months in
a reservoir of phenomenal imagery. The experience was a
virtual world tour of contemporary motion picture talent.
I know audiences will be sated at the end of this journey.”
Feasting on Film
Coming Soon: A World Festival of Emerging Cinema
Festival founder and Coordinator
of The UWI Film Programme, Yao
Ramesar promises a feast of cinema.
PHOTOS: THE UWI FILM PROGRAMME
“Caribbean Man No. 2 (1983)”
by Stanley Greaves, one of the
Caribbean’s most accomplished
artists has been selected as the
festival’s poster.
