Thursday 9 August 2012
Friday 27 July 2012
Tell us what Independence means to you
The trinidad+tobago film festival and Flow are inviting filmmakers to submit short films on the topic of Independence to a film competition celebrating the country’s 50th Independence anniversary.
Entitled Side by Side, in tribute to T+T’s national anthem, the competition is seeking the best 50-second films that express what “Independence” means to the filmmaker.
Submissions will be accepted on any interpretation of the word “independence” and filmmakers are encouraged to be as creative as they wish and explore any aspect of what the word means to them.
The competition is open to filmmakers of all ages, amateurs as well as professionals. Submissions will be accepted from July 1 to August 1, 2012.
Directors of the five best films will each win a Flow package of services, valued at a total of $40,000. Additionally, the best film overall will be awarded TT$5,000 at the ttff awards ceremony on September 30. Films are to be submitted via private link on YouTube and must be of a minimum resolution of 720 x 480 NTSC.
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Friday 15 June 2012
Focus to win $20,000
RBC Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion
Presented by the ttff + RBC Royal Bank
25 – 28 September 2012
Application deadline: July 13
The trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff), in association with RBC Royal Bank, invites applications for the second annual RBC Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion. The Immersion is an intensive four-day development programme culminating in a competitive pitch session with a prize of TT$20,000 for one winner.
Mission and objective
RBC Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion will provide ten selected Caribbean filmmakers working in the documentary field with the opportunity to learn from professional film artists. It will be held from 25–28 September 2012 in Trinidad during the ttff/12 (19 September–02 October).
Focus will include group discussions and exercises on a range of documentary filmmaking techniques and strategies, opening participants to the creative possibilities of the artform.
Each filmmaker will enter Focus with a concept for a feature-length documentary film and in the course of the programme develop a detailed treatment.
Lab facilitators
The facilitators for Focus are two internationally respected film-industry professionals: Jamaican-American filmmaker and teacher Alrick Brown, and documentary story consultant Fernanda Rossi, born and raised in Buenos Aires and based in New York for the past 17 years. Mr Brown is the writer and director of the award-winning feature Kinyarwanda (2011) and producer of the acclaimed documentary Death of Two Sons (2006). Among the many documentaries Ms Rossi has consulted on are the Academy Award-nominated The Garden (2009) and Recycled Life (2007). Her signature presentations have been given to over 40 organisations in over a dozen countries.
Pitch session and competition
At the end of Focus, the facilitators will choose their top five participants. These five participants will then pitch their project to a five-member jury at a public event during the ttff/12. The participant with the best project and pitch, as determined by the jury, will win a cash prize of TT$20,000.
Eligibility
Focus is open to emerging Caribbean filmmakers (citizens or residents of Caribbean countries living and working in the Caribbean) who have completed at least one documentary film (short or feature-length) but not more than two features.
Applications
All applicants must submit a maximum five-minute excerpt of a documentary film project on DVD, stating their role(s) on the film (writer and/or director and/or producer). Applicants must also submit their résumé and a cover letter stating, in 100 words or less, the concept of the project they would be bringing to Focus and what makes it unique. Participants will be determined based on the strength of all three of these items.
Applications should be sent via mail or delivered in person to:
Jonathan Ali
Editorial Director
trinidad + tobago film festival
199 Belmont Circular Road
Port of Spain
Trinidad and Tobago
The deadline for applications is 13 July, 2012. Successful applicants will be notified by 1 August.
Submitted materials will not be returned.
If you have any questions, please contact jonathan@ttfilmfestival.com
Friday 27 April 2012
Tagore Film Festival - Char Adhyay: Four Chapters (Mon 7 May)
Char Adhyay (1997)
English Title: Four Chapters
Romance
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Director: Kumar Shahani
Writer: Kumar Shahani
Adapted from a novella by Rabindranath Tagore, Char Adhyay captures the
ideals of the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s. A group of young
intellectuals and revolutionaries, led by the brilliant young Indranath,
is fighting for independence from the colonial system.
Ela, a beautiful spirited young man is a member of a
group of armed revolutionaries during the freedom struggle. She is at
once the mascot and the spirit of the movement. Within the group she
meets Atin and falls in love. The unyielding nature of the movement
decrees that they cannot be together. As Ela and Atin start questioning
the indoctrination and the ideology of the movement, they come into
conflict with the leaders of the group. The film is the story of this
conflict between beuty, love and humanism and the harsh ideology and the
indoctrination of the revolutionary struggle.
Tagore Film Festival - Teen Kanya: Two Daughters (Sun 6 May)
English Title: Two Daughters
Tagore Film Festival - Khudito Pashan: Hungry Stones (Sat 5 May)
Khudito Pashan (1960)
English Title: Hungry Stones
117 minutes
Director: Tapan Sinha
Writers: Rabindranath Tagore (story), Tapan Sinha (Scenario)
Stars: Arundhati Devi, Soumitra Chatterjee and Chhabi Biswas
The film is adapted from a story called Hungry Stones by Rabindranath Tagore. A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals because it is haunted. As time passes he grows more consumed by the mansion and its air of romance, and the spirits that haunt it, especially a beautiful woman. Written by Ravenus, India
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054005/plotsummary
Tagore Film Festival - Kabuliwala (Thurs 3 May)
Kabuliwala (1961)
Director: Hemen Gupta
Stars: Balraj Sahni, Sonu and Usha Kiran
Abdur Rehman Khan (Balraj Sahni), a middle-aged dry fruit seller from Afghanistan,
comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali
girl called Mini (Sonu) who reminds him of his own daughter Amina back
in Afghanistan. He puts up at a boarding house along with his
countrymen. Since he is short of money he decides to sell his goods on
credit for increasing his business. Later, when he goes to collect his
money, one of his customers abuses him and in the fight that ensues
Rehman warns that he will not tolerate abuse and stabs the man when he
does not stop the abuse. In the court Rehman's lawyer tries to obfuscate
the facts but in his characteristic and simple fashion Rehman states
the truth in a matter of fact way. The judge, pleased with Rehman's
honesty, gives him 10 years' rigorous imprisonment instead of the death
sentence. On the day of his release, he goes to meet Mini but discovers
that she has grown up into a woman and is about to get married. Mini
does not recognize Rehman, who realises that his own daughter must have
forgotten him too. Mini's father gives Rehman the money for travelling
back to Afghanistan out of Mini's wedding budget to which Mini agrees;
she also sends a gift for Rehman's daughter. The film ends with Rehman
travelling back to his homeland.
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