OMG Digital Magazine OMG Issue 298 1st March 2017 COMPLETE | Page 45

OMG Digital Magazine | 298 | Thursday 1 March 2018 • PAGE 45
TT Film Festival + Canadian High Commission
team up for Human Rights on Film
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
professional, Annmarie Morais, last year, to put their
training into practice. The link with Morais will continue
as she mentors them through the writing of a five minute
narrative or documentary film, on a human rights issue of
concern to Trinidad and Tobago, or the wider Caribbean.  
A panel of three judges - including a representative from
The National Film Board of Canada and from the Canadian
High Commission in Trinidad, will select the best three
scripts.
Trinidadian-born, National Film Board of Canada producer
- Selwyn Jacobs, will then conduct a two-day workshop on
how to move from the scriptwriting phase to production
and post-production. The completed films will screen at
ttff/18.

From L - R: Dr Bruce Paddington, Founder and Festival
Director, ttff;    Annmarie Morais, Canadian-Jamaican
film professional and Canadian High Commission, H.E.
Carla Hogan Rufelds .
According to Annabelle Alcazar, programme director
of the ttff: “This    programme marries our interest in
developing the skills of local filmmakers and writers, with
advancing the conversations on human rights in Trinidad
and Tobago.  We are excited about this project and look
forward to seeing how filmmakers rise to the challenge
of using their artistic knowledge and skill to bring these
important issues alive.”
Also commenting on the project, High Commissioner
for Canada, Her Excellency Carla Hog