Film and Television

Film and Television, Literature, People, Guyana

For books’ sake: Petamber Persaud

In 1992, the Guyana Chronicle published a letter by Petamber Persaud, calling for the establishment of a publishing house for Caribbean...

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Culture, Film and Television, Festivals and Events, St. Barts

The accidental festival

On the face of it, the island of St Barthélémy (St Barts to us anglos, St Barth to the locals) is an unlikely venue for a Caribbean film...

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Culture, Film and Television, Arts

Tempo: Gimme more Caribbean

I was chatting with my new buddy Frank the other day about Tempo, the fledgling television channel that was launched recently amid a flurry...

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Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Sweet Calypso Dreams

It’s always struck me as odd that Caribbean music, without a doubt one of the most significant cultural gifts that has been bestowed on...

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Culture, Film and Television, Arts, French Caribbean

Marooned? Guadeloupe’s Jean-Claude Flamand

When Martiniquan Euzhan Palcy’s Rue Cases Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley) appeared in 1983, it seemed that French Caribbean cinema was all...

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Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

The Lovelace Project: Joebell and America

What do you get when you cross two filmmakers and a visual artist with an award-winning writer? And what happens when these individuals...

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Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Bim, Bim, Sink or Swim…

The poster summarised the theme: One man’s struggle to come to terms with the society that has alienated him. Released in 1974, Bim was...

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Film and Television

Screen buzz (Jan/Feb 2004)

Back in the gayelle Ask any television station operative in the Caribbean about local programming and they’ll tell you one thing: it’s...

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