In preparation for the seventeenth version of the trinidad+tobago movie pageant, ttff/22, the ttff group has introduced this 12 months’s programming group:
[. . .] This 12 months, our group consists of three Caribbean and two worldwide programmers: Bruce Paddington (ttff founder), Danielle Dieffenthaller, BC Pires, Ivonne Cotorruelo and Jim Kolmar. By extending our programming group to folks outdoors of the Caribbean, we’ve considerably widened the web each when it comes to the movies we will curate, and when it comes to bringing higher worldwide visibility to our Caribbean filmmakers and movies and to ttff.
Ivonne Cotorruelo is a Cuban Movie Curator and Producer primarily based in New York, who has been empowering storytellers for over a decade. She is a Options Programmer at Cleveland Worldwide Movie Pageant CIFF, Outfest, Atlanta Movie Pageant ATLFF, Trinidad and Tobago Movie Pageant TTFF and a Shorts Programmer for Aspen ShortFest. She has served as Juror for the Miami Movie Pageant, New Filmmakers LA, and Havana Movie Pageant NY. A Berlinale Expertise Campus alumnus, she is at all times in search of out tales for underrepresented voices. Engaged on a plan of strategic variety, fairness and inclusion.
Danielle Dieffenthaller has over 20 years of expertise within the tv and movie business. She is dedicated to telling the Caribbean story by way of high quality dramatic and documentary movie and tv productions. Dieffenthaller is the proprietor/producer/director of Dieffenthaller Type Movies Ltd, which produced the favored programmes “Iere Vibe” and “The Reef”. She was the primary pressure behind the tv manufacturing firm Earth TV Ltd, and producer/director and co-writer of the acclaimed “Ecowatch” collection and the long-running “Westwood Park” (100 episodes). Dieffenthaller’s resumé contains work with TTT, UK-production firm Bandung Productions and the groundbreaking manufacturing home Banyan Productions, the place she and one different crew member have been the one native crew to seize the occasions of the 1990 tried coup. Amongst her credit are dramatic, academic, environmental, political and enterprise tasks for native, regional and worldwide audiences. She is a co-founder of FILMCO and the 2019 Arts and Letters Laureate of the Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence.
Jim Kolmar is an impartial programmer who curated movies for South by Southwest Movie Pageant (SXSW) from 2009-2020, the place he continues to seek the advice of on worldwide and have movies. He’s additionally presently programming for trinidad+tobago movie pageant and was a founding committee member at Pageant Internacional de Cine Tulum (FICTU). Jim was additionally a visitor curator for Portland Worldwide Movie
Pageant 2021. Jim is a contributing author for Ambulante Movie Pageant in Mexico, and has served on juries, panels and committees for organizations together with Austin Movie Society, BAFICI, Berlinale, Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM), CONNeXT, CPH:DOX, IDFA, IFFPanama, IN-EDIT Barcelona, San Sebastián, and Ventana Sur.
Bruce Paddington (PhD) is a filmmaker, lecturer, educational and movie pageant curator. He was a senior lecturer in movie on the College of the West Indies, Trinidad and the co-founder of the Bachelor of Arts Movie Programme. He’s the founding father of Banyan Productions, the New World Movie Centre and the trinidad+tobago movie pageant and was the pageant director from 2006–19. He’s a marketing consultant and programmer for ttff/20.
BC Pires was known as to the bar of Trinidad and Tobago in 1984 and enrolled as a solicitor of the Supreme Court docket of England and Wales in 1989 however, since January 1988, has executed nothing however write for a dwelling. His satirical column, “Thank God It’s Friday”, printed roughly each Friday of the final 32 years, started on the Specific and, after a couple of years on the Guardian, has appeared in Newsday since 2017. He has tried to put in writing sensibly about movie from an knowledgeable lay perspective since 1988. He sat on the primary jury of the trinidad+tobago movie pageant and wrote the Judges’ Report. He has additionally written about West Indies cricket for publications all around the world, notably, the UK Guardian and Observer newspapers. He has lived in Port of Spain, London, Georgetown and, since 2008, Barbados. [. . .]
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