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Two from TT at Cannes Market
Reading Time: 3 minutesAbove: Mariel Brown. Photos courtesy FilmTT. “I am excited to have Moving Parts at Marché du Film and to be partnering with Flourishing Films,” said Emilie Upczak, the film’s director. “The more content from Trinidad and Tobago that reaches the international market via film festivals, film markets, theatres and on-demand services, the more aware programmers, […]
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Bespoke bee stings
Reading Time: 3 minutesAbove: Bees on honeycells. Photo by Irochka/DepositPhotos. A consideration of Kei Miller’s recent essay for Pree, by Mark Lyndersay. It seems like overkill to consider writing an essay about an essay. It’s the sort of thing literary folk do, not journalists, but Kei Miller’s essay for Pree, a new online website, struck me in that […]
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A state of media confusion
Reading Time: 3 minutesAbove: Unesco World Press Freedom Day 2018 graphic. Courtesy Unesco. By Wesley Gibbings A version of this commentary previously appeared in the T&T Guardian. So today, May 3, we observe World Press Freedom Day. Wait and see. It will mainly be journalists who will be believing this has anything to do with them. It always […]
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Rudder at 65: A Retrospective
Reading Time: 3 minutesAbove: David Rudder performs as a guest at the Calypso Monarch Finals, 1995. All photos by Mark Lyndersay. A consideration of David Rudder on the eve of his 65th birthday by Mark Lyndersay So here’s how this started. Dennis Ramdeen, who helps David Rudder with marketing and promoting his shows, contacted me (and a whole […]
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