Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Jamaica
By Araya Crosskill ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
Chris Browne: third world filmmaker
With behind-the-camera work on Hollywood feature films that include Cool Runnings (1992) and A Perfect Getaway (2009), Christopher Browne...
Film and Television, Theatre and Dance, Arts, People, Guyana
By Marina Salandy-Brown ● Issue 4 (Winter 1992)
Beaton at his own game
Norman Beaton arrived home to be interviewed precisely at the appointed time in a stately white 1940s Bentley. His man of business, who was...
Culture, Film and Television, Arts
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 4 (Winter 1992)
Where have all the Caribbean movies gone?
The Caribbean is often seen as a string of exotic islands with palm-fringed beaches, populated by happy calypso-singing natives waiting to...
Culture, Film and Television, People
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 10 (Summer 1994)
Horace Ové: Coming Home
One moment Horace Ové was busy filming on a Caribbean beach, solving the sort of intellectual and technical problems that beset any...
Culture, Film and Television, History, Lifestyle
By Susan Ward ● Issue 12 (Winter 1994)
Hollywood in the Caribbean
Before the Second World War, Hollywood couldn’t afford real locations for pictures with exotic settings – if it had the budget, it...
Culture, Film and Television, Lifestyle
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 22 (November/December 1996)
Cinema Paradiso
“Ram-bo! Ram-bo!” the fella in front chanted, punching the air with his fist every time Sylvester Stallone did something worth...
Culture, Film and Television, Business
By Annabelle Alcazar ● Issue 30 (March/April 1998)
Wanted: Caribbean Film Investors with Imagination
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Jamaican film The Harder They Come. Starring reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, written by Trevor Rhone...
Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 36 (March/April 1999)
Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System
When she directed Peggy Su in 1996, Frances-Anne Solomon became one of the few Trinidadians to have directed or produced a feature film....