Kamau Brathwaite presents the Best of CaribbeanTales @ NYU
If you didnt see me host the Bajan leg of the Caribbean Tales Film Festival, watch it here
Celebrated Caribbean poet/historian/cultural critic Kamau Brathwaite will host a selection of films from the Best of CaribbeanTales Film Festival 2010 (CTFF), at New York University from April 26th to May 1, 2010. The four day mini-festival is part of Marassa 10 2010 : A Festival of Caribbean Film, Story and Imagination, that will take place at the Institute of African American Affairs, 41 East 11th St., 7th Floor.
Barbados-born Dr. Brathwaite is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at NYU. Since the 1950′s he has authored many outstanding ground-breaking works, including poetry and non-fiction, and awards recognising his achievements include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Fulbright Fellowship, and recently, the Griffin Prize for “Born to Slow Horses”. He is best known for originating the concept of Nation Language to describe the indigenous Caribbean languages of peoples descended from slaves. His contributions to a discourse on contemporary Caribbean and Africentric culture are without parallel.
The complete list of film being to be screened is online here.
Click Here for The Militant One
Click Here for more PYRAMID (playing)
