Celebrating Independence! at Grundlos Kollektiv
2018: 56 years of Independence! Time to celebrate, but also time for introspection, real conversation, progressive solutions, freely re-inventing everything we can be. Grundlos Kollektiv and Culturego Magazine welcome you to be a part of this year’s celebration of Trinidad and Tobago: our history – our identity – our journey – our shared future and everything that makes us Trinbagonian today.
Inward Hunger: The story of Eric Williams
directed by Mariel Brown
****Winner: Best Local Feature Film, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2012*****
Synopsis
Inward Hunger is a documentary on the life of Dr. Eric Eustace Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. This groundbreaking documentary was produced in recognition of the 100th Anniversary of Williams’ birth on September 25th, 2011.
The series explores both the political and personal life of Eric Williams, in order to understand the multiple sides of his complex and enigmatic character. It is the first documentary series to delve into the character and life of Williams in such depth and from a variety of perspectives. The documentary goes beyond “Williams as Prime Minister” to examine the diverse facets of Williams’ personality, ideas and behaviour as eldest son in a large family, student, historian, writer and educator, husband and father, friend, professor, international civil servant, and Party leader.
This portrait of Williams reveals the aspects of his family and school life that shaped his personality and perspectives from childhood; his understanding of colonial society and his uneasy place in it; his privacy and intensity in close/intimate relationships; his career as an educator in the classroom and in the public sphere; his fight with the Caribbean Commission and entry into politics; his vision for an independent society – his reforms and social transformation…
Diverse perspectives on Williams come through original interviews with journalists, writers, historians, revolutionaries, family members and former politicians and associates of Williams. This pioneering documentary series reveals Eric Williams in unprecedented breadth and depth, in the context of the history, society, region and world that shaped him, the forces to which he at times succumbed, and those he fought to change.
Venue: GRUNDLOS KOLLEKTIV ( 11 Cipriani Blvd, POS)
***NB. Bring your reusable drink ware, cushions, chairs, blankets….screenings start on time!
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