T&T Film Festival Director Bruce Paddington said he was pleased to note that the Festival has become part of T&T’s cultural calendar and promised not to disappoint those who have eagerly awaited the event. He was addressing the gala audience at the opening of the Festival on September 20. Paddington said the Festival offers some … Continue reading
A cadre of specially invited Jamaican film-makers will be attending this years T&T Film Festival (ttFF) to show five short films in a special showcase. The films, which will have their world premiere at the Festival, are the result of a program called Propella initiated by the Jamaican Film and Television Association (JAFTA). The winning … Continue reading
Theatre practitioner Mervyn de Goeas said he does not think of himself as just a director or a mas-man or an actor or a writer, but as an artist. He told an appreciative audience at the Monday Night Theatre Forum he has been a has-been on many occasions and come back each time. This article … Continue reading
The psychological thriller Sansakara, by T&T production company 3 Line Studios, tells the story of an ongoing war between a family of assassins and a crime family. Set in T&T, the story is told through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy who is adopted by the assassins. The psychological Sansakara, by T&T production company 3 … Continue reading
In TOMB, a science fiction feature film set and made entirely in T&T, writer and director Nicholas Attin tells the story of a Trinidadian astronaut who slips into a wormhole while responding to a distress beacon in deep space and suddenly finds himself in the afterlife. Attin said the concept for the film came to … Continue reading
The i|Focus program offers eight weeks of film production training to 250 young people between the ages of 17 to 29 from high needs communities throughout T&T. The program is an initiative of the Citizen Security Program (CSP) of the National Security Ministry in collaboration with the Digital Film Institute. The first cycle of the … Continue reading
As creative space Alice Yard enters its 10th year of existence, its co-founders, architect Sean Leonard, artist Christopher Cozier and writer Nicholas Laughlin say the secret to their success is their spontaneity and responsiveness to what is happening around them. They said they’ve never had a plan for what they’ve wanted the space to become, … Continue reading
“Breaking Blue – Impressions on Depression from the Art Therapy Room,” an interactive exhibition at the Medulla Gallery, presented a collection of the art produced by art therapy patients and their therapists. The exhibition was curated by the Art Therapy Association of T&T, Sian McLean, Sarah Soo Hon, Kristy Anatol, Satori Hassanali and Kim Bryan, … Continue reading
If you use Waze by Google and have access to the Waze Coach function, listen out for a familiar accent. One of the voice actors hired to voice this function, which was developed as part of Olympic celebrations, is T&T’s Steven Edwards, Executive Chairman of Steven Edwards Productions. According to Waze, “The Coach” was designed … Continue reading
As a new/returning student to UWI, I decided I’d go to UWI’s Student Life orientation on September 2. Full disclosure: I went for the free stuff they give out afterwards, but that’s no reason not to take in what’s being said to a new generation of UWI students, right? The program was decent, with Makesi … Continue reading
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