Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Arena: The Strange Luck of VS Naipaul

Alicia Milne

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Luso Trinidad: Home in the Land of the Homeless

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Jamesie, King of Scratch
2.   The Garifuna Journey

Andre Johnson

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  The Caged Bird

Annalee Davis
Annalee Davis was born in Barbados in 1963. She completed a B.F.A. at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and an M.F.A. at Rutgers, New Jersey. She now lives and works throughout the Caribbean as an artist, teacher, workshop organizer and participant, curriculum developer, writer, organizer of exhibits and co-founder of an artist's union. She has held solo exhibitions in several Caribbean countries and exhibited regionally and internationally at the Habana & Sao Paulo Biennials, as well as in group exhibits in Argentina, The Dominican Republic, Germany, Spain, and South Africa among others.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  On the Map

Asger Leth
Asger Leth grew up with film as a way of life. His father is Danish film giant Jørgen Leth; the younger Leth has appeared in a number of his father’s documentaries, and was a writer and assistant director on the Five Obstructions (2003), in which Lars von Trier challenged Leth Sr. to remake one of his films five times. Ghosts of Cité Soleil is Asger Leth’s first film.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Ghosts of Cité Soleil

Ben Stambler
Ben Stambler is the Vice President of Acquisitions and Development at THINKFilm. The company's recent acquisitions include Taxi to The Dark Side, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, In The Shadow of The Moon, Then She Found Me, and the forthcoming production, Blue Valentine. He produced Aaron Katz’s second feature Quiet City, for which he has overseen the theatrical self-release and sale of DVD and Pay TV rights. He recently was nominated for the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for the best feature made for a budget under $500,000. He studied at North Carolina School of the Arts and got his B.A. from Emerson College. Ben assisted in Acquisitions and Development at Samuel Goldwyn Films in Los Angeles, worked in documentary production at Two Tone Productions in New York and served as Manager of Acquisitions at Magnolia Pictures for 3 years where he was instrumental in acquiring The Signal, Exiled, Severance, Jesus Camp, The Host and Crazy Love.

Bill Haney
Bill Haney’s first documentary film was 2002’s The Gift of the Game, about the relationship between the United States and Cuba as seen through the game of baseball. He has directed a number of documentaries since then, showing a passion for social, political and environmental issues. At present he is working on his first feature film, a biopic about the legendary rock singer Janis Joplin.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  The Price of Sugar

Brendon Foster-Algoo
Born in Toronto, Canada and a Bachelor of Fine Arts of York University's Film Production Program, Brendon Foster-Algoo has created internationally received and award-winning films that have screened at 70 film festivals to date,including the Montreal World Film Festival, The British Film Institute/Times London Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival. His films have played all over the world including the U.K., South Korea, Spain, Denmark, Colombia, Turkey, India, USA, and Canada. Foster-Algoo is currently at work on his next film. For more info: www.neutraldensityfilms.com

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Anamnesis

Christian James
Christian James studied at Presentation College and then St Mary's College. He is a previous first place winner for St Mary's College at the inaugural Movietowne Secondary Schools Short Film Competition held in 2005 and is currently pursuing a BA in Film Production at the University of the West Indies. He has already started work on his next major film. Balance is his second film that is being screened at the Movietowne.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Balance

Claude Santiago
Claude Santiago is Algerian by birth, Spanish by ancestry, French by education and Canadian by nationality. He has been the curator of numerous video–art and music exhibitions in the USA and in Europe. In the 1980s he started making TV films and in the 1990s moved into directing features, including Around Midnight, and educational and experimental films and documentaries, often focusing on music, such as punk and musicians such as Cuban legend, Compay Segundo. His work has won awards at both European and Latin American film festivals, including Best foreign documentary on Latin America at the New Latin American Cinema Festival, Havana 1990 for Cubafrica.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Soca Power in Trinidad and Tobago

Clément Virgo
Clément Virgo is one of Canada’s foremost feature directors whose past works include Lie With Me (2005) and Love Come Down (2000). Poor Boy’s Game world-premiered at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, Panorama Special Section, and was presented as a Special Selection at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. It won Best Film and Audience Choice awards at the Atlantic Film Festival and Calgary International Film Festival, 2007. “… ‘Poor Boy’s Game’ may represent [Virgo’s] best work so far, blending seamlessly his preoccupation with race, fluid identities, and complex sexuality.” (Leslie Felperin, Variety).

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Poor Boy’s Game

Corretta Singer

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Deeper Shadow Song

Daniel Greaves
Daniel Greaves was born on 1st October 1959 in Woburn, Buckinghamshire, England. He studied animation at West Surrey College of Art from 1977 to 1980. In 1986 he founded Tandem Films with his business partner Nigel Pay with the goal of funding personal projects through their commercial work. In addition to the 1992 Academy Award for Best Animated short Manipulation went on to win over a dozen other international awards including the coveted Cartoon D’Or. Flatworld and Little Things were both nominated for the BAFTA and won over 50 international awards between them. As Creative Director at Tandem, Daniel continues making award-winning commercials and is currently completing two films for 2008: Mixed Notes, a resurrected 90-second film which began in 2002 and Speechless, a 7-minute film.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Manipulation

Debra Zimmerman
Debra Zimmerman has been the Executive Director of Women Make Movies, the largest distributor of films by and about women in the world, since 1983. Recent releases of Women Make Movies include THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO by Lisa F. Jackson, winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi's award winning SISTERS IN LAW, a 2008 Peabody Award recipient for most outstanding achievement in electronic media. She is in great demand around the world as a speaker on independent film distribution, marketing and financing as well as on women's film. Most recently she has moderated panels and given master classes at the Sundance Film Festival, MIPDOC and Reel Screen as well as film festivals in Greece, Uganda, Mexico and Italy. Debra is a member of numerous Advisory Boards for media and film organizations, including Docu Club (NY), the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), the Banff World Television Festival's Advisory Committee, American University's Center for Social Media and Cinema Tropical. She has also been a jury member for many international film festivals, and regularly sits on foundation and government funding panels.

Dianna Bernard

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Locked Out

Diego Risquez
Diego Risquez was born in Margarita in 1949. In 1975 and started making films in Super-8 format while continuing to direct corporate films and commercials for the national and international market. In 1980 he began a trilogy of works on the real and mythical history of the Latin American continent: Bolivar Sinfonia Tropical followed by Orinoko: Nuevo Mundo in 1984, both of which were screened at the Cannes Film Festival. There was a retrospective of his work at The Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1985/6 and in 1986 he directed the third film in the trilogy, Amerika Incognita.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Franciso de Miranda

Ed Herzog
Ed Herzog was born in Calw in the Black Forest in 1965 and worked as a first aid attendant and as a bartender in Osaka. From 1991-1998, he studied at the German Film & Television Academy in Berlin. His films include: Eine Schuerze aus Speck (short, 1994), Happy Weekend (1996), Ku'damm Security (short, 1997), Heaven & Earth (Himmel und Erde, TV, 1999), and Almost Heaven (2005).  

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Almost Heaven

Edmund Attong

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Filmmakers of the Caribbean

Edmundo H. Rodríguez
Edmundo H. Rodríguez studied at NYU Film School and has produced and directed commercials, documentaries, music videos and Television Specials for some of Puerto Rico's top production houses. Since 1995 he is Co-founder and Director of Propaganda Puerto Rico Films. In addition to several music videos and ad campaigns, Edmundo directed the featurettes A Night in Hollywood and The Prodigal Son. His made-for-TV movie Desamores, based on one of five roman noirs written by Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón, premiered on Puerto Rican Television to high ratings and great reviews. The Two Faces of Janus, the second film in the series, opens in December 2008. Edmundo just wrapped the feature film Kabo y Platón, original screenplay written by the award winning novelist Mayra Santos- Febres. And in 2009 he’ll start shooting Huey, Louie, Dewey and Three Girls in Pink, a road trip/romantic comedy.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Desamores

Effie Brown
Effie T. Brown is a Los Angeles based producer who has produced critically acclaimed, award-winning features, including Stranger Inside; Real Women Have Curves (winner of Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award and Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Performance); Everyday People and In the Cut. Effie’s latest film Rocket Science won the Sundance 2007 Grand Jury Prize for Directing and was nominated for Best First Feature, Best Screenplay and Best Actress by the Independent Spirit Awards. She has several films slated for production this year, including Bobby Zero with Mos Def and Erykah Badu set to star. Brown received the Motorola Producer Award at the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards, and the 2003 Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Loyola Marymount University, her alma mater and now serves on the board of the FIND / Film Independent.

Elspeth Duncan
Elspeth Duncan is a multimedia artist who works in the fields of writing, music, conceptual art, photography, art video, and filmmaking. Through her company, Happy Hippy Productions, she creates artists works and productions that aim to uplift, inspire, shift perspectives, provoke thought, and create awareness in self and others.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Invisible: Children Living with HIV/AIDS

Graeme Suite

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  A Long Way Home

Indrani Bachan Persad

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Documentary Interview

Ismail Merchant
The late Ismail Merchant was one-third of the celebrated Merchant Ivory production team, along with director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In a career that spanned almost five decades, Merchant produced dozens of films, including Shakespeare Wallah, Bombay Talkie, The Remains of the Day and the Academy Award winning Howards End. The Mystic Masseur was his fourth and final film as a director, before his death in 2005.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  The Mystic Masseur

Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien was born in London of Caribbean parents, and graduated from St Martin's School of Art, where he studied painting and fine art film. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for his films The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999) and Vagabondia (2000). Earlier works include Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996), Young Soul Rebels (1991) which was awarded the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and a documentary on Langston Hughes, Looking for Langston (1989).

Julien was visiting lecturer at Harvard University's Schools of Afro-American and Visual Environmental Studies and is currently a visiting professor at the Whitney Museum of American Arts and the University of Arts, Hamburg. He is the recipient of both the prestigious MIT Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts (2001) and the Frameline Lifetime Achievement Award (2002).

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Derek
2.   Paradise Omeros
3.   True North
4.   Fantôme Afrique
5.   Western Union : Small Boats
6.   Baltimore

Jason Williams
Jay Will is one the Caribbean’s outstanding directors. He studied film at Full Sail in Orlando, Florida and the A&M University, Tallahassee and has worked at CBS and MTV but now runs Jay Will Films/Creative Source with Producer Carleene Samuels where they produce/direct shorts, documentaries, music videos, TV shows, and commercials. Their work includes: M.I.A’s Boyz; Shaggy’s Church Heathen; Beenie Man’s Dreaming Of You"; Jah Cure’s Journey; T.O.K’s Footprints; and Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Pum Pum”. Accolades include: Video Director of the Year EME Awards 2008; Best Dancehall Video Reggae Academy Awards 2008; and Best Music Video IRMWA Awards 2008. The Jamaican Observer named Williams one of “The 20 Most Influential Persons/Entities In Reggae and Dancehall Music” in 2008.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  It's All About Dancing

Javier Beltrán Ramos
Born in Venezuela in 1972, Javier Beltrán Ramos received his Bachelor in Arts (Filmmaking) from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He has worked in postproduction for documentaries, spots, and short and long films. In 2005 he made the documentary, Mountain Echoes, and, in 2006, he received an award from the National Center of Cinematography (Venezuela) for Histories of the Wind.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Historias del Viento (Stories in the Wind)

Jean Michel GIBERT
Jean Michel GIBERT , a French citizen based in Port Of Spain for the last sixteen years, is actively involved in local audiovisual and musical production.

Besides, being involved with the international promotion of many local artists such as 3Canal, Mungal, Calypso Rose and many more. Jean Michel Gibert has co-produced with French producers internationally acclaimed documentaries such as Calypso @ Dirty Jim’s (check www.calypso-at-dirty-jims.com) and the recently finalized “Soca Power in Trinidad and Tobago” in HD, digitial sound 5.1.

Thanks to worldwide distribution network for its CD/DVD with major labels (EMI Virgin) or specialized independent labels (Harmonia Mundi), and the collaboration with local and European private and public institutions such as TTFC, UNDP, European Community, the ACP Secretariat, Canal +, Trace TV, the CNC, has been able to expose his projects to a large audience (France Television, BET) and obtain from his movies a series of awards in major festivals (Prix Dikalo D’or Panafrican Film Festival of Cannes, Mention Speciale du jury, Vues d’Afrique of Montreal, Prix du Python Papou of La Reunion, etc…)

His next project is the TTFC funded documentary “Rose, the diva of Calypso” in association with African & French producers, which will be filmed in Tobago, Trinidad, New York, Paris and Africa.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Soca Power in Trinidad and Tobago

Jimmel Daniel

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Mr Loverman

Joel Burke
Joel Burke has edited music videos for top directors Ras Kassa, Jay Will, and several others but he cut his directing teeth on acclaimed music videos for Jovi Rockwell and Bounty Killer. He wrote and directed his first screenplay, a twenty minute short film called Bad Lucky, which premiered at the first Flashpoint Film Festival in Jamaica and has since travelled to several other film festivals. Candy Shop is his first feature length film.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Candy Shop

Jorge Luis Sánchez
Jorge Luis Sánchez is a distant relative of Benny Moré and has had a long career in his native Cuba as a writer, editor and director of many short films, both documentary and drama. El Benny, which he co-wrote with Abrahán Rodriguez, is his first full length feature film.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  El Benny

Joseph Valley
Joseph Valley has worked in film as a cinematographer, sound engineer and lighting designer. He has made various films over the years, including one on the traditional Hindu wedding in Trinidad.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  The Art of Stickfighting

Joshua Harrison
Joshua Harrison is co-founder and the Artistic Director of the St. Barth Film Festival/Cinema Caraïbe, which supports the promotion and development of Caribbean film and media culture. Since 1995, the festival has brought together leading directors, writers and artists from throughout the Caribbean basin to show their works and exchange creative insights. The festival has also been active in supporting the distribution and release of numerous quality independent productions and sponsored the 25th anniversary re-release of The Harder They Come in the United States and North America. In 2008, the festival introduced La Prix de la Guadeloupe, an annual prize for the best short film made in the Francophone Caribbean. The prize comes with a stipend to be used for subtitling the works into English as well as guaranteed distribution on several English-language television stations, including CUNY-TV in New York City and Gayelle-TV in Trinidad and Tobago.

Junior-Andrew Lett
Junior-Andrew Lett, currently employed at NCC TV 4 was a former TTT employee and was inspired to document this story about the courageous media men who had experience the siege and with whom he became friends during the last days of National Broadcasting Network Ltd (TTT). He has an Associate Degree in Journalism & Public Relations and is currently pursing a B.A in Film Production at The University of the West Indies.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  The Siege

Kareen Browne

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  The Fiddler

Kolton Lee
Kolton Lee is a Montserrat-born filmmaker living and working out of London. He has written for British television and has made several short films for the BBC. His first independent project was American Mod (2001), which was bought by The Sundance Channel and other international broadcasters. Cherps, his first full-length feature that recently sold to the BBC, has played at Cannes and PAAF in Los Angeles, and has been described by Variety magazine as "a brash indie debut . . . a fitting 'Alfie' for these times.”

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Cherps

Lacey Duke
Lacey Duke recently completed her BFA in Film Production at York University where she made some short quirky films, including Dance, which appeared at the Canada International Annual Film Festival. She was named on the “20 emerging filmmakers” be ReelWorld in 2006, where she originally pitched her idea for Afia.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Afia

Laura Munoz
Laura Muñoz has worked in theater, television, and TV spots, dubbing and as a producer. She studied at the Escuela de Cine y Televisión in Caracas and attended the Workshop of Filmmaking held in the Laboratorio del Cine y el Audiovisual. In 2005 she wrote the screenplay Adam and Eve. She currently lives in Venezuela, where she acts, writes, directs, and edits.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Adan y Eva (Adam and Eve)

Mariana Fuentes
Mariana Fuentes has written and directed several short films and documentaries including Before the Scene (a documentary on acting) and A Reflection in the Dark (short). She directed the television miniseries Hoy te Vi and Bitacora. In Paris, she directed documentaries for UNESCO and taught screenwriting at EICAR, the International French film school, and has taught acting and directing In Venezuela.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  El Café de Lupe (Lupe’s Café)

Marsha Pearce
Marsha Pearce is a first-time documentary filmmaker from Trinidad and Tobago. She is a Cultural Studies PhD candidate at the University of the West Indies, the 2006 recipient of the Rhodes Trust Rex Nettleford Scholarship, and the founder of the scholarly website.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Wrestling with the Angels: An Exploration of Caribbeanness

Michael Mooleedhar
Michael Mooleedhar is an up an coming film maker breaking new ground with his first documentary "Queens of Curepe." He is currently pursuing his B.A. in Film at UWI. In addition to filmmaking he has a passion for photography, writing and fashion.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Queens Of Curepe

Michael New
Michael New was born in Trinidad & Tobago. He shot his first film in France and Great Britain. Since 1972 he has lived in Venezuela where he works at the film center associated with the Universidad de los Andes. He has shot several short documentary and dramatic films. The feature Cubagua (1987) was his first notable film.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Florentino and the Devil

Michelange Quay
Michelange Quay was born in Haiti and has degrees in film production and anthropology, and a Masters in Film from New York University. In 2002, he was chosen for Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation Residence for Directors, where he began writing the script for Eat, for This is My Body. He currently lives and works in Paris.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Eat, for this is My Body

Nadya Shah

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Let Go

Nalini Akal

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Dancescape

Natasha Callender
Natasha Callender is currently a third year film student at the University of the West Indies. She views film as the weapon for the empowering of the disenfranchised (i.e. indigenous peoples, the “Third world”, women, minority groups) and the bridging of the gap between “dem and we”.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Binghi

Nile Saulter
Nile Saulter was born in Jamaica in 1985. He studied Introduction to Filmmaking at Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, and received his formal training in film from the New York Film Academy. Nile returned to Jamaica where he has worked on music videos, commercials and documentaries. In addition to Scoundrel, he has made another short film, Forward, and is currently at work on his first feature film.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Scoundrel

Oliver Milne
A student the Vancouver Film School, Oliver Milne has been involved in filmmaking since the age of twelve. He has directed, written and produced three short films over the past two years, two of which were screened at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  The Cost of Living

Oyetayo Raymond Ojoade
Oyetayo Raymond Ojoade is Trinidadian and Nigerian. He began his technical career in computer graphics in Nigeria but is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Who Let the Dogs Out?

Renee Pollonais

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Directions

Roger Alexis
Roger Alexis directed his first film, A Greedy Friend in 2005 and has since collaborated with Kirk Budhooram on all aspects of the Herman Tales series. He has also assisted in local film projects such as Contract killer and Christmas Is.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Mandy (Herman Tales)
2.   The Patriot (Herman Tales)
3.   Top Cop (Herman Tales)

Sam Watson
Sam Watson understood sound from an early age – while still at elementary school his project on the properties of sound won at a science fair. Later he studied music composition and film while playing cello in the symphony at the University of Mississippi and guitar in two rock bands. His professional activities began at Imageworks a local production company, cutting his teeth on Avid's Mediacomposer and Audiovision systems. He has worked on commercials, televisions series, and features for PBS, VH1, MTV, Discovery, NASA, the Navy, the Army, etc. He has worked on Habitat for Humanity and on Martin Scorsese's The Blues series, and was the principal production & post-production sound mixer for the BB King Museum's films. Ballast, the last feature film on which Sam worked as location sound mixer, took home the Best Director and Best Cinematography awards in the dramatic category at Sundance 2008.

Sander Burger
Sander Burger is an up and coming Dutch director who has made a number of well-received documentaries and feature films over the past few years. He is a graduate of the Dutch Film Academy.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Panman: Rhythm of the Palms

Sara Ann Chow Quan

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Baby Blues

Sarah Beckett
Sarah Beckett has been deeply involved with the cultural life of Trinidad & Tobago since the 1960s and, as an artist, has exhibited in Trinidad, Europe, the U.S.A., and the Far East. In 2007 she made An Angel’s Wing—an art film that was showcased in Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, and London. She is founder and Creative Director of Trinidad Quartet Productions—a charity organisation dedicated to the promotion of the arts and educational outreach.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Alabaster Moon

Sonja Dumas

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  "W"

Sophie Meyer
Sophie Meyer worked for many years in France and the UK as a television production assistant and manager, as well as a freelance producer, presenter and editor with Reuters television and BBC News among others. She was a production assistant on the remake of the film Dangerous Liaisons, and has directed short films for the Arts Council in England. In 2006, she made a film on Trinidadian composer Dominique Le Gendre. Sophie is currently developing documentaries on indigenous communities in Colombia.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Salt of the Earth

Stefano Caines

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Old Rabbits Die Hard

Stephanie Black
Stephanie Black's credits include the feature-length documentary, H-2 Worker, which won the Best Documentary and Best Cinematography awards at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, and was the U.S. selection for the Critics’ Week at Cannes. Her television credits include innumerable documentary segments for Sesame Street, Nickelodeon's U to U, PBS's Zoom, and Cartoon Network's Big Bag series. Black has produced and directed music videos for Ziggy Marley and Banju Banton, as well as Making Chant Down Babylon, a 30-minute documentary on the making of the Bob Marley tribute album. She has taught documentary filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley’s Vision

Stephen James
Born in Trinidad, a multi-talented artist with experiences ranging from music to film making. A successful writer /composer, sound engineer and director who in 2002 founded, with Stephanie James, SHAKTI PRODUCTIONS in 2002. Their main production, Women West Indies, a television magazine dedicated to Caribbean women is now broadcasted on Gayelle in Trinidad, throughout the Caribbean on Carib Vision, and in many regions around the world through the French RFO network. They are currently producing their new series, Women West Indies Diaspora, which will highlight Caribbean women who succeeded around the globe.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  The Black Mozart in Cuba

Storm Saulter
Storm Saulter is a graduate of the Los Angeles film school. Now 25, he made his directorial debut in 2005 with the ambitious romantic comedy, Twang!. He has apprenticed with Little X (Julien Lutz), acclaimed Trinidadian-Canadian music video director, and has worked with Busta Rhymes and Wyclef Jean, among others.

Tamara Tam-Cruikshank
Tamara Tam-Cruikshank is a twenty-seven year old multi-media visual artist and recent UWI graduate who uses Transience as a means of exploring, decoding and revealing the multiplicity innate in every structure/system. This is her first documentary.

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  A Culture in Motion: Scripting an Identity with Images

Thomas K Jemmerson

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  Curious City

Inspiration Directors
Jean Ahn , Dara Brown, Christopher Thomas, Nikita Joseph, Nishi Soondar & Sasha Ramcharran

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  The Art of inspiration (Find Yourself)

Valdir Silva

Film(s) in Festival :

1 .  X-Tempo