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
23rd
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.
Title: I Spy [Trees] 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
[Port of Spain] 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
Title: Mas
in de West
[
Director Present
] Director: Michael Lewis
Duration/Date: 15mins/2007
Genre: Documentary
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Synopsis: Western Port of Spain, is a hub of
carnival activity; the creative energy of
masmakers, steelbands and revelers pulsates
during the annual festival.
Title: The Insatiable Season: Making Carnival in
Trinidad and Tobago
[
Director Present
] Director: Mariel Brown
Duration/Date: 52min/2007
Genre: Documentary
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Synopsis: For four months every year, a camp of
people in Trinidad converges for the ritual of
making a Carnival band. The time together is
intense and exhausting. When the insatiable
season ends, art will have been made, worn and
discarded…until the season returns.
Time :
3pm
- 5:30pm
Title: Herman's Tales: Kidnapped
[
Director Present
]
Director: Kirk Budhooram
Duration/Date: 20mins/2007
Genre: Comedy
Country: Trinidad & Tobago
Synopsis: Herman, Poui Village's storyteller, is
kidnapped. Staring
danger in the face, he tries to divert the
kidnapper from his course
of action while Mandy, Herman's cousin, hatches
a plan to catch the kidnapper and get all the
glory.
Title: Karma
[
Director Present
]
Director: Frankie Sooknanan
Duration/Date: 110mins/2007
Genre: Drama
Country: Guyana
Synopsis: Based on Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet,
Karma explores how love can turn to hatred, and
the human need for revenge. Two Guyanese friends
tragically fail to overcome romantic betrayal.
Time :
5:30pm
- 8pm
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
[
Rated 18 & Over
]
[
Director Present
] 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.
Time :
8pm
- 10:30pm
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.
