Caribbean Travelling Film School

23/01/2024

Our own 'Yao' Ramesar is on the move again, taking his latest film Fortune For All across the globe and winning accolades on the journey.
https://newsday.co.tt/2024/01/17/great-fortune-for-yao-ramesars-fortune-for-all-at-european-film-festival/?fbclid=IwAR1Qpbu1fHSirCQig2oB3EO8fiJR6AZWUJGMg6RARY3AJrcG-Tbu2Zv-huY

VETERAN filmmaker Yao Ramesar's 2023 narrative drama Fortune For All has won four film awards locally and internationally.

25/10/2023

Premiering Saturday 28 at 10:30 (I assume UK time) on BBC Soul Music radio program.
Interviews with people sharing stories of what Makeba’s PataPata meant to them.
One of the interviewees is Dr Niyi Coker of our own Caribbean Travelling Film School fraternity.

Stories of what Miriam Makeba's iconic song means to people from around the world.

25/09/2023

So, agreements made and approved.
Wonder what has been agreed to and how will the movie moguls respond.
Just as they managed to get rid of the financial burden of live actors by introducing CGI characters and voice overs, so too they will use the power of AI to enhance these characters and create artificial voices that will become the norm as even voice actors are eliminated.
Good to get an increase in pay but how do you secure your jobs?

The Writers Guild of America has reached a deal with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers after more than four months on the picket line.

22/09/2023

Another block buster from director Yao Ramesar, now Dr Ramesar.
Fortune for All was shot in Tobago and Trinidad and stars two of the most accomplished local screen actors in Michael Cherrie and Nicolai Salcedo along with Samara Lallo and Rebecca Nedd.
The film will premiere in TnT at the TnT Film Festival, Movie Towne, Sept 24th and 26th.

Award-winning filmmaker Dr. Yao Ramesar's new film, Fortune For All, is set to be screened at the 2023 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. Fortune For All is about three estranged Caribbean siblings who are reunited after the death of their o

19/01/2023

R.I.P. RAVI SRINIVASAN

Ravi Srinivasan, senior manager of festival programming for the Toronto International Film Festival, has died suddenly at age 37.

05/08/2022

FOR ALL ASPIRING WRITERS OUT THERE IN TnT, BARBADOS AND JAMAICA

Writing for Performance - a project for writers living and working in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago

15/07/2022

RIP LEANDRO SOTO

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of friend, associate, mentor and lecturer, artist Leandro soto, at the end of his battle with cancer.
Gone but never forgotten

15/07/2022

MORE GOOD NEWS

Associates of the school seem to be making progress in the film industry in the Caribbean and being recognized worldwide.
Akley Olton is heading to Switzerland to show Europe how we do it in the Caribbean. He is being accompanied by Aiko Roudette, the curator of the Hairouna Vinci film festival.
While we wish him and the team continued success, we must remember that money for film and filmmakers, is pretty scarce in the Caribbean, so we must step up and put a little something in the kitty.

For the first time in history a short film produced in St.Vincent and the Grenadines, by a Vincentian filmmaker, is in the lineup at the 2022 Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. The festival has extended an invitation to the director of the short film, Akley Olton, and also to Aiko Roudette who cr...

14/04/2022

Our dear friend and associate professor Leandro Soto is a victim of cancer and is in dire need of financial help with his medical expenses as well as transport from Mexico to the US. His wife has started a gofundme effort to raise money to help defray some of those expenses. Please try to help in any way you can and for those who do, please pray for his successful recovery.

My husband Leandro Soto, known to many as “Soto”, “Maestroji”, and “Teacher”… Grisel Pujala-Soto needs your support for Help Support Leandro's Cancer Journey

11/11/2021

Birkbeck University of London will host a free screening of two films by Richard Fung of Trinidad, 'The Way to My Father's village and My Mother's Place from the 24 to the 26th Nov with an after screening conversation on the 26th. Always good to watch our own stories through the eyes of local artists.

Looking at My Family: Two Films by Richard FungThe Way to My Father’s Village (1988, 38’)My Mother’s Place (1990, 49’)