Arts articles
Celebrating 50 years of Jamaican & Trinidadian Independence through October Film Festival Twelve documentaries and features will be presented as part of the 2012 exhibition marking 25th Black History Month Anniversary. Screenings in Brixton, Hackney and Stratford throughout October including the Oscar-tipped ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ and award-winning Director Penny Woolcock’s feature documentary ‘One […]
New T&T film ‘The Cool Boys’ explores young Caribbean masculinity In a region such as the Caribbean where film making is considered by many as a burgeoning art form, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (which will take place from September 19th to October 2nd 2012) has become an annual grand stage for practitioners to […]
Contemporary Art installation by Hew Locke for Thames Festival Following on from his piece For those in Peril on the Sea in 2011’s Folkestone Triennial, Hew Locke is working for the second time in an active church with a re-configuration of his piece Adrift. He has been making or drawing boats since he first started […]
Interview with Ghetta Life Director Chris Browne Writer, producer and director, Chris Browne utilized his time, money and talents to write, produce and direct his own short films in Jamaica. Ghetta Life being his most recent. From childhood, I was fascinated by Hollywood and films. I figured you had to grow up there to do […]
Ghett’a Life, is a film about Jamaica that no tourist, and most Jamaicans don’t get to see. The film, whose Executive Producer is ex-World Heavyweight boxing champion, Lennox Lewis, is set in a suburb of Kingston, where each ghetto is under garrison law and run by gun toting gangs under the leadership of ruthless Mafia […]