Presented by Penelope Hynam 

- FREE SCREENING -

Featuring new Film from the burgeoning Bajan scene:

• Premiere of new Documentary - Chattel House by Gladstone Yearwood;

• Stone Houses by Mahmood Patel

• Revolutionary Poet by Nala

• Beauty and the Bald Head by Sandra Sealy/Gladstone Yearwood;

• The Garden and Who Am I? by Melanie Springer; 

• Second Innings by Alison Saunders-Franklyn

Chattel House, Gladstone Yearwood:

Gladstone Yearwood holds the BFA degree from New York University’s Institute of Film and Television and the MA and Ph. D from Ohio University. He currently teaches at the University of Central Florida where he has the rank of Professor in the School of Film and Digital Media. Dr. Yearwood has taught at universities in the United States, Canada, Africa and the Caribbean. Film scholars worldwide describe his early book Black Cinema Aesthetics: Issues in Black Independent Filmmaking as an ‘important work’ that helped to establish the black independent film movement. He has been active in filmmaking since the 1980s.  His recent book Black Film as a Signifying Practice: Cinema, Narration and the African American Aesthetic Tradition examines signifying practices and the systems of narration in independent cinema. His work moves away from a preoccupation with film as defined by Hollywood to emphasize how marginalized groups use their own vernacular space and time for storytelling in the cinema and how filmic narration draws on the formal structures of a culture to organize story material. The film Chattel House uses Caribbean vernacular architecture to chronicle development and change in Barbadian cultural history, in which Barbadians tell their own story using their voices and visions.

Second Innings, Alison Saunders-Franklyn:

A young Barbadian comes to a posh public school in England on a cricket scholarship to do his A' levels with a burning desire to find his dad, a former great West Indian cricketer who he has never met.  Their confusing first encounter leaves him disillusioned with the sport and his new life in England.  After bouts of poor academic and sporting performance and truancy, he is told by the headmaster that he will lose his cricket scholarship. Nevertheless, in this game of life like Test cricket….. there is a second innings.

Production: 

The majority of scenes in “The Second Innings” were shot on location at the historic Harrow School, alma mater of famous Brits like Sir Winston Churchill. The cast comprises professional actors procured on a voluntary basis through agents in London.  A professional director of photography and sound recordist and editor were provided by the film school.  In addition, Alison had the support of family and friends in London as well as aspiring film makers who volunteered as crew.