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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 8TH MAY, 2016
UWI’S WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
The UWI Film Programme,
as part of its 10
th
anniversary
celebrations, turns its eye towards emerging filmmakers
from across the globe at its new film festival: World Festival
of Emerging Cinema (WOFEC), from May 19-22, 2016 at its
Carmody Street, St. Augustine home base.
The response to the call for submissionswas overwhelming
– almost 700 films from76 countries were submitted. A total of
192 filmsmade the final selection; these were from52 countries
including features fromPeru, Columbia, Netherlands, Mexico,
France, Albania, Spain, Guinea-Bissau, India and Italy, along
with the specially invited films from Trinidad and Tobago
and the region.
The films focus on a range of issues such as migration,
race, women’s rights, coming-of-age, as well as religion
and spirituality. This diversity of subject matter and theme,
creatively and originally addressed, will attract the full
spectrum of WOFEC’s patrons. Of note, there is a selection
of films specifically targeting junior audiences.
Included in the first official selections announced are
two feature films,
Climas
from Columbia/Argentina directed
by Enrica Perez;
The Head Hunter
from India directed by
NilanjanDatta; documentaries from Ireland
Destination: Gaza
directed by GarryMcGovern, and Finland,
Listen
by Rungano
Nyoni; as well as an animated movie from Brazil,
Castillo
y Armado,
directed by Pedro Harres. Among the selected
shorts are the comedies
Rap Brothers
from Poland directed
by Adrian Apanel,
Occupy Jamasa
from Finland directed by
Jaakko Kajein,
Sans Plomb (Unleaded)
from Canada/France/
Netherlands and
Une Simple Formalit
é from France directed
by Nicolof Loïc. Rounding off the first selections are dramatic
shorts
Wut
from Spain, directed by Sergi Maltas, and
Love,
by
Bulgaria’s Petar Boya Harizanova.
The feature film
Climas
explores the circumstances of
three women of vastly differing ages and origins as they cope
with life in three distinct regions of Peru. Eva, a young girl from
the lush tropics of the Amazonian jungle, experiences a sexual
awakening by way of a forbidden relationship with her uncle.
Victoria, a wealthy socialite fromLima, suffers a terrible secret
that renders her inner life as grey and melancholic as the city
surrounding her. Zoraida, an elderly peasant from a destitute
village in the AndeanMountains, confronts her worst fears in
the wake of the unexpected return of her estranged son. Three
disconnected regions, three introverted women, three stories
of discovery shaped by three different geographies, societies
and climates of the same fragmented country.
Over the years, The UWI Film Programme has played
host to 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. The official festival
trailer produced in-house at the UWI FilmProgramme by film
students Sekou Charles andMikhail Gibbings, who edited the
trailer and composed the original musical score respectively.
HOSTAL EDEN – 13-minute narrative – Spain
Something
for everyone
192filmsonshow
For more information
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Check out the teaser trailer:
ONO – 8-minute Animation – Belarus, Russia
CLIMAS – 84-minute Narrative – Colombia, Peru
The feature film
Climas
explores the circumstances of three women
of vastly differing ages and origins as they cope with life in three
distinct regions of Peru.
