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October
12-17 2004
Welcome to the
website of the Third Barbados Festival of
African and Caribbean Film. This year, we’ve expanded
to two venues, The Olympus Cinema and the Frank Collymore Hall.
We’re offering a bigger programme of schools workshops and
screenings, a free family screening of a new form of animation
using recycled junk materials, and a fascinating collection of
specially invited Directors, Actors and Film Experts.
Get
to know your special guests!
From
the Opening Gala, featuring celebrated art-house film-maker, Isaac
Julien, to the Closing Screening of a new film by
Puerto Rican, Marta Vega, our
special guests are here to talk and listen to you. They’ll be
there at the post-screening discussions, workshops, Meet the
Director sessions, and just milling around in the foyer like the
rest of us. Look out for Haitian film-makers, Laurence
Magloire and Elsie Haas,
here to take us beyond the myth of Haiti as we pay special tribute
at the critical moment of its 200th anniversary. Onookome
Okome continues his exploration of the highly
individual direction of Nigerian cinema. After last year’s
screening of Tableau Ferraille, Moussa
Sene Absa of Senegal just couldn’t resist being here
in person to present his most recent feature. Gladstone
Yearwood leads the burgeoning Bajan cinema scene with
his Chattel House documentary, while two friends of the Festival, Arnold
Baker and Tom Campbell
from New York, are here this year with a film of their own. A face
we’ll all recognize is that of Cameroonian actor, Eriq
Ebouaney, who took the title role in a major film at
the 2002 Festival, Raoul Peck’s Lumumba. And finally, to receive
the Festival Award for its Contribution to Caribbean Film, we
welcome a representative from the Cuban Film Institute ICAIC,
which has given the region some of its most innovative and
challenging films. Also from Cuba, Estrella
Hendrickson Lorenzo of their International School of Film and
Television has come to talk about opportunities for film students.
Come
mingle with film-makers, film-lovers and film-experts in an
intimate atmosphere where dialogue is the key.
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