Tension filled the air during the FilmTT stakeholder meeting as the recollection of past disputes threatened to disrupt the proceedings. However, many in the substantial audience chose to agree with FilmTT General Manager Nneka Luke as she acknowledged the past turmoil and urged stakeholders to view collaboration as a way of moving the sector forward. … Continue reading
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Film TT offers small grants (March 12, 2017)
The T&T Film Company (FilmTT) is inviting applications for its 2017 Small Marketing and Development Grants. Film TT General Manager Nneka Luke said the grants are small investments into very specific projects based on what the organization is capable of providing at this time. In a release, FilmTT said the grants, which will range from … Continue reading
Attin’s new film goes cosmic (September 11, 2016)
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
Digital Film Institute – putting youth in focus (September 11, 2016)
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