Film and Television

Q&A with Shabier Kirchner | Screenshots (Mar/Apr 2019)

By Jonathan Ali | Issue 156 (March/April 2019)

Antiguan filmmaker Shabier Kirchner talks about his new short, Dadli

Unfinished Sentences: the inheritance of loss | Snapshot

By Georgia Popplewell | Issue 156 (March/April 2019)

Trinidadian filmmaker Mariel Brown set out to make a straightforward documentary about her writer father. But as Unfinished Sentences evolved, it turned into a nuanced exploration of grief, family, and artistic ambition, writes Georgia Popplewell

Unfinished Sentences includes re-enactment scenes featuring actor Renaldo Frederick (left) as Wayne Brown, and Che and Alessan-dra Jar-dine as his young daughters. Photography courtesy Savant Films

Q&A with Ian Harnarine | Screenshots (Jan/Feb 2019)

By Jonathan Ali | Issue 155 (January/February 2019)

Filmmaker Ian Harnarine talks about his new short, Caroni

Q&A with Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada | Screenshots (Nov/Dec 2018)

By Jonathan Ali | Issue 154 (November/December 2018)

A Q&A with Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada, directors of Miriam Lies

Courtesy Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada

The inimitable Grace Jones | Backstory

By Nazma Muller | Issue 154 (November/December 2018)

She’s an instantly recognisable icon of music and fashion, with a forty-year career in the limelight. And the inimitable Grace Jones is Jamaican to the core, says Nazma Muller

Jones’s “statuesque flamboyance” in full display on stage. Photo by Joseph Okpako/Getty Images

Screenshots (Sept/Oct 2018) | Q&A

By Jonathan Ali | Issue 153 (September/October 2018)

A Q&A with Khalik Allah, director of Black Mother

Screenshots (July/August 2018) | Q&A

By Jonathan Ali | Issue 152 (July/August 2018)

A Q&A with Matthew Smith, director of a new Walter Rodney documentary

Matthew Smith, director of The Past Is Not Our Future. Photo courtesy Matthew Smith

Screenshots (Mar/Apr 2018) | Film reviews

By Jonathan Ali | Issue 150 (March/April 2018)

This month’s Caribbean film-watching picks, with reviews of Cocote; Sergio & Sergei; and The Silence of the Wind

Gimme tempo

By Tracy Assing | Issue 76 (November/December 2005)

Find out why TEMPO is truly Caribbean

The Enigma of Filmmaking

By David Tindall | Issue 52 (November/December 2001)

David Tindall followed the making of The Mystic Masseur from the beginning

Author V.S. Naipaul. Photograph by Jerry Bauer courtesy Picador

Winston Duke: “I’m unfinished” | Own words

By Caroline Taylor | Issue 149 (January/February 2018)

Tobago-born actor Winston Duke, appearing in the eagerly awaited Black Panther movie, on his love of stories and magical realism, how his village childhood shaped his ethos, and his love of soca music — as told to Caroline Taylor

Screenshots (Jan/Feb 2018) | Film reviews

By Jonathan Ali | Issue 149 (January/February 2018)

This month’s film-watching picks

Screenshots (November/December 2017) | Film Reviews

By Jonathan Ali | Issue 148 (November/December 2017)

This month’s film-watching picks

Jason Jeffers: stories like ours | Snapshot

By Nailah Folami Imoja | Issue 147 (September/October 2017)

His passion for film started when he was growing up in Barbados. It led Jason Jeffers to make the award-winning short documentary Papa Machete, and to found the Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival in Miami. What these initiatives have in common, he tells Nailah Folami Imoja, is a dedication to telling Caribbean stories and changing the way the world imagines our islands