The Jacmel Ciné Institute: changing the story
There are countries that tell their own stories, and countries whose stories have been told for them. Haiti has long been one of the...
Hail to the Chief
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey, by Colin Grant (Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-536794-2, 530 pp) Colin Grant...
Screenshots (November/December 2012)
Our pick The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song, directed by Christy Garland (73 minutes) You could say the subject of Christy Garland’s...
First coming: Davina Lee’s debut film
Davina Lee is editing an episode of the bimonthly Carib Vision TV programme Smile Patrol, which she shot earlier in the week. The host has...
Ian Harnarine: Family ties
I first met Ian Harnarine in 2010, at a filmmaker’s pitching session organised by Caribbean Tales in Toronto. At the time, he was a...
Euzhan Palcy: Making Waves
Euzhan Palcy, thirty-four, was the first black woman to direct a major Hollywood studio film: A Dry White Season, starring Donald...
Trevor McDonald: Into the Lion’s Den
It’s strange now to recall that for a few months in late 1990 the President of Iraq held the world in terror. Going back on a solemn...
Anya Ayoung-Chee: hot off the Runway
It‘s five months since Anya Ayoung-Chee won Lifetime TV’s Project Runway, but Anya-mania shows no signs of dying down in Trinidad &...
