Hello September! One of the highpoints of our year at CULTUREGO, because it’s a creative season and especially – film festival season! We’re excited to discover another year of the trinidad+tobago film festival as it “punches above its weight” with a second year entirely online. Throughout the years, we’ve loved (and we do truly do […]
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Caribbean Design is not peripheral, it is a language.
Azi JONES is a Jamaican Curator, Researcher and Art Advisor with a love for art [...]
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Bantu Mama tells the story of Emma, an Afropean woman who escapes arrest and sees her destiny change in a dangerous district of Santo Domingo. According to filmmaker Ivan Herrera, for him and Producer Clarisse Albrecht, the film was made “to begin the personal recognition process of honouring our African roots and to reconnect stories from the Caribbean and Europe to Africa.”
Khalik Allah / 2018/ Jamaica, USA / 77 minutes Review by Jonathan Ali An island is a world, as the writer Samuel Selvon declared. So it would be foolhardy, dangerous even, to assume that a single work of art could entirely encompass or reflect an island, with all of the depth and complexity and contradictions […]
Blitz “The Ambassador” Bazawule is a Filmmaker and Musician born in Ghana and based in New York. Blitz’s short films Native Sun (2012) and Diasporadical Trilogìa (2016) premiered at New Voices in Black Cinema and Blackstar Film Festival respectively. Blitz is also the founder of the Africa Film Society, an organization focused on the preservation […]
CULTUREGO Magazine, in partnership with Caribbean Creativity invites you to the Trinidad & Tobago PREMIERE of Welcome to the Smiling Coast(2016) and Gifts from Babylon (2018) followed by a Q& A with the producer of both films, Dr. Emiel Martens from the Netherlands.. Wednesday 3 October, 2018Doors open 6pmFilm starts at 7pmat Grundlos Kollektiv (11 Cipriani Boulevard, Port of Spain) Admission Free RSVP REQUIRED (Limited […]
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 […]
The trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) and Canadian High Commission are teaming up to encourage the making of local short films on human rights issues, as part of a filmmakers development programme that began in 2017. The Human Rights on Film training programme encourages filmmakers and writers who participated in a scriptwriting workshop with Canadian-Jamaican film […]
“I grew up between a river and the ocean,” said Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat at the launch of Green Screen Film Festival on Thursday night. In a brief, unscripted address at the launch of the seventh annual Environmental Film Festival, the Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries said he was moved on a personal […]