Date / Venue Information :
September 19 –
25
MovieTowne Entertainment & Shopping Complex
Lot D, MovieTowne Boulevard
Audrey Jeffers Highway
Port of Spain
Trinidad, West Indies
Movietowne screenings $20. Schoolchildren in
uniform $5.
Film Schedule : September 19th
Time:
11am - 1pm
5 Best School Shorts 5 @ 5 mins each
Title: The
Keepers Director: Kwynn Johnson
Duration/Date: 13 minutes/2007
Genre: Observational short film
Country: Trinidad & Tobago
Synopsis: A lyrical silent film that follows two
beekeepers who harvest honey on a Maraval
Estate. They intervene in Nature’s working but
in are tune with its laws and are sensitive to
its greatness.
Tttle: I Spy [Wildlife] Director: Elspeth Duncan
Duration/Date: 12 minutes/2007
Genre: Short documentary
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Synopsis: Under the guidance of Multimedia
artist Elspeth Duncan and using a video camera,
children aged 7–10 conceptualised this series of
four shorts that reveal their perspectives on
the natural environment. I SPY Trees. I SPY
Wildlife; I SPY Things in My Garden; I SPY
Recycling:
Title: YES - Caribbean Young Explorers [Lopinot] Director: Lorraine O’Connor
Duration/Date: 20-22min per episode/2006
Genre: Television series
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Synopsis: A television series, hosted by
children, that highlights our culture and
traditions and the geographical make up of our
islands. Each episode is set in a different part
of the country and focuses on themes such as
education, community development and
environmental preservation.
5
Short Local Animations
Time:
1pm
- 3pm
5 Best School Shorts 5 @ 5 mins each
Title: Schoolbreaker Director: Derek de Verteuil; Tamika
Phillips; Sophie Wight
Duration/Date: 28 minutes/2007
Genre: Drama
Country: Trinidad & Tobago
Synopsis: Four schoolgirls break the rules in
this story of coming-of-age in contemporary
Trinidad where the spectre of HIV/AIDS is much
more real that they realize. Devised, acted and
produced by the Tabaquite Youth Movement.
Tttle: I Spy [ Things in my Garden] Director: Elspeth Duncan
Duration/Date: 12 minutes/2007
Genre: Short documentary
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Synopsis: Under the guidance of Multimedia
artist Elspeth Duncan and using a video camera,
children aged 7–10 conceptualised this series of
four shorts that reveal their perspectives on
the natural environment. I SPY Trees. I SPY
Wildlife; I SPY Things in My Garden; I SPY
Recycling:
Title: YES - Caribbean Young Explorers [Paramin] Director: Lorraine O’Connor
Duration/Date: 20-22min per episode/2006
Genre: Television series
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Synopsis: A television series, hosted by
children, that highlights our culture and
traditions and the geographical make up of our
islands. Each episode is set in a different part
of the country and focuses on themes such as
education, community development and
environmental preservation.
Time :
3pm
- 5:30pm
Title: Ramdilla Seen Director: Jean Ahn
Duration/Date: 30mins/2006
Genre: Documentary
Country: T&T/USA
Synopsis: A vibrant record of the annual Hindu
festival of Ramleela in which the story of the
Ramayana is reenacted in some of the villages of
Trinidad.
Title: Uncomfortable: The Art of Christopher
Cozier
Director: Richard Fung
Duration/Date: 47 min/2005
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
Synopsis: A journey through the art and ideas of
contemporary Trinidadian artist Christopher
Cozier. His witty, polemical work is in the
context of post-independence Trinidad -
oil-rich, politically complex and culturally
vibrant.
Title: Rent a
Rasta [
Rated 18 & Over
]
Director: J.Michael Seyfert
Duration/date: 45 mins/2006
Genre: Documentary
Country: Jamaica/US
Synopsis: Foreign women in search of sex rent a
rasta. This film about the Jamaican sex tourism
industry segues into a history of Jamaica and
the Rastafari, presenting a picture of a
paradise laced with cultural misunderstandings
and socio-economic inequities.
Time:
5:30pm
-8pm
Title: Cuban Shorts: City of Dreams [
Director Present
]
Director: Kirk Perreira/ICAIC students
Duration/Date: 20mins/2007
Genre: documentary
Country: T & T/Cuba
Synopsis: A poignant look at the struggle for
survival in Old Havana. The people keep the city
alive and it keeps them alive.
Title:
Amor en Concreto
[
Rated 18 & Over
] Director: Franco de Pena
Duration/Date: 99 min/2003
Genre: Feature
Country: Venezuela
Synopsis: What do a 50-year-old taxi driver, a
middle-class female doctor, a young man from a
shanty town, a wandering transvestite, a bolero
singer and a war tank have in common? The search
for love. A fateful accident in a city of crime
and fear brings them together, propelling each
to their own destiny.
Time:
8pm
- 10:30pm
Title: The Vegetarian Super Machine [
Director Present
] Director: Camille Selvon Abrahams
Duration/Date: 5min/2007
Genre: Animated short
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Synopsis: A divine journey through the Caribbean
Forest in search of treasure that turns out to
be unattainable. Based on a poem by 13th Century
poet Jullaludin Rumi this tale takes you into
heaven and beyond to the sweet sound of Sheldon
Blackman.
Title: A
Winter Tale
[
Director Present
]
[
Rated 18 & Over
] Director: Frances-Anne Solomon
Duration/Date: 100min/2007
Genre: Feature
Country: Canada
Synopsis: The emotional story of a black men’s
support group in Toronto that begins to meet
when a child is killed in the crossfire of a
drug deal gone sour. The community is under
siege, seeking ways out of violence and racism.
The cast includes Trinidadian Dennis
“Sprangalang” Hall. Winner of the Outstanding
Canadian Feature award at Canada’s Reel World
Film Festival.
