NGC supports community film shows

Tobagonians turned out in force last Friday for the NGC-sponsored Independence Film Series in which two classic movies with connections to Tobago were screened to a packed house. Fire Down below, the 1957 Hollywood adventure drama shot in T&T, and Hurricane Flora a documentary produced by the Government Information Services (GISL) in the aftermath of the deadly 1963 hurricane that devastated Tobago, played to a full house at MovieTowne, Tobago.

 

 

As riveting as the night’s screenings were the memories about both events that members of the audience shared in a post-screening chat gave an authentic community feel to the evening. NGC’s sponsorship supports and helps facilitate the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival’s initiative to take to communities films which have been produced locally, or which have a local dimension. NGC’s sponsorship is specially focused on carrying the viewing experience to communities in Tobago, San Fernando and Point Fortin.

 

 

Next Tuesday, the local blockbuster Bim will be screened at San Fernando Hill alongside Best Village Finals 1967. On the following Saturday the TTFF caravan heads to the Point Fortin Public Library for a showing of The Louis Brothers (13-min) doubled with Men of Grey II: Flight of the Ibis (94 mins). The shows begin at 7 pm. NGC’s support for the blossoming local film industry is among the company’s gifts to the people of Trinidad and Tobago to mark the 50th anniversary of Independence. The community screenings are being presented under the title “Side By Side” which is a joint initiative of the TTFF and the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Independence. All shows are free and open to the public.