Future Critics

This is the third year we are offering the Future Critics Programme to COSTAATT. The programme  seeks to prepare emerging reviewers  from the College’s Journalism programme for the rigor, best practices and industry standards of critical film review and festival reporting.

Fifteen students from The Ken Gordon School of Journalism and Communication Studies will attend ttff/18 and review ttff/18 films and events. Every day during the festival,  selected reviews to be posted here. At the end of the film festival, B.C. Pires, film critic will choose the ttff/18 Top Future Crituc.

Hush-A-Bye Review by Sharla Kistow

—Published on Tue 25 Sep, 2018.

Postpartum Depression better known as ‘Baby Blues’ is a complex mix of emotional and behavior patterns that takes place in women after g...

Mas Review by Stephanie Isidore

—Published on Tue 25 Sep, 2018.

Brought to the Caribbean by the French settlers, Carnival uniquely forms part of our identity. Carnival, an annual event in Trinidad and Tob...

Una Noche de Calypso ( A night of Calypso) Review by Jewel Thorpe

—Published on Tue 25 Sep, 2018.

Una Noche De Calypso is a festive, musical documentary that gives an analysis of the Panamanian calypso group, Amistad. It brings into persp...

Sun, Sea and Science Review by Celine Dimsoy

—Published on Mon 24 Sep, 2018.

The documentary Sun, Sea and Science: Trinidad after Oil is arguably the most important film being shown at the ttff this year. Although qui...

Cocote Review by Chevon Mahabir

—Published on Mon 24 Sep, 2018.

Cocote is not a movie to be watched but experienced. The director Nelson Carlo De Santos Arias is bold, and uses powerful sounds to add dra...

Lalo’s House Review by Leon A. Joseph

—Published on Sun 23 Sep, 2018.

Directed by Kelley “Kali” Chatman Lalo’s House is a masterfully created short film. However before continuing I must say the film is i...

Nang by Nang Review by Celine Dimsoy

—Published on Sat 22 Sep, 2018.

Nang by Nang is a touching account of the life story of a woman by the name of Nang, born 93 years ago, who overcame numerous struggles thro...

Black Hair Review by Garvin Mortley

—Published on Sat 22 Sep, 2018.

We are in the year 2018 and the world has evolved tremendously. Nevertheless, discrimination of the most basic nature still exists. The 20 m...

Hall Review by Celine Dimsoy

—Published on Fri 21 Sep, 2018.

About halfway into the Barbadian documentary Hall, which started off as a standard ‘true crime story’ of a man convicted for the...

Hero Review by Sharmelah Sandassie

—Published on Thu 20 Sep, 2018.

Hero is the story of a man who made history in the truest sense of the word. The film can almost be called an epic, because it chronicles an...

Back to Freeport by Kirk Bhajan

—Published on Tue 26 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics The Danish philosopher, Kierkegaard once said, “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived for...

Short Drop by Kirk Bhajan

—Published on Tue 26 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics There is an understanding in Trinidad and Tobago that all our citizens are born comedians. Our natural talent is...

La Soledad (Desolation) by Kirk Bhajan

—Published on Mon 25 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics Venezuelan filmmaker Jorge Thielen Armand’s movie La Soledad (Desolation) is about a house that is crumbling, a...

Adama by Giselle Permell

—Published on Mon 25 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics Adama, voiced by Azize Diabaté Abdoulaye, is a French animated film of a 12 year old boy from a secluded village...

Bad Lucky Goat by Leah Knights

—Published on Sun 24 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics A simple errand for their mother saw Corn and his sister Rita in the middle of a dilemma where they were now runn...

Le Gang Des Antillais (gang of the antilles) by Diana Mathura

—Published on Sun 24 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics Le Gang des Antillais (Gang of the Antilles), based on a true story, is an ambitious film that explores the rise...

Reinbou by Kirk Bhajan

—Published on Sat 23 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics Co-directors David Maler and Andres Cubelo deliver a heart-warming, modern fairy tale with their film Reinbou (Ra...

The Violin Teacher by Natasha Twum

—Published on Sat 23 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics Directed by Sérgio Machado, The Violin Teacher is a touching drama set in contemporary Brazil that revolves arou...

The Weekend by Ryan Nanton

—Published on Fri 22 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics If your fancies are tickled when sheer bacchanal unfolds, this thirty minute short film is a must see! Be sure t...

Lipstick Under My Burkha by Kamini Ramlochan

—Published on Fri 22 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 rbc future critics Lipstick Under My Burqa is an unconventional, highly controversial Hindi language work of art. This is the second...

Kafou Review by Kirk Bhajan

—Published on Thu 21 Sep, 2017.

ttff/17 RBC Future Critics Kafou is terrifying odyssey into the dark underbelly of Haiti’s underworld. Director Bruno Mourral has delivere...

Paddlin’ Spirit Review by Tarelle Julien

—Published on Wed 20 Sep, 2017.

This documentary is an excellent depiction of how one woman’s pain is transformed into art, and how she empathises so deeply with the suff...

ttff/16 future critics: At The Stardust Cafe

—Published on Tue 27 Sep, 2016.

It was refreshing to see that these people who were so different from the people they were around were being treated with such courtesy. It...

ttff/16 future critics: the cutlass

—Published on Tue 27 Sep, 2016.

by Shiv Sawh- ttff/16 Top Future Critic At its heart ‘The Cutlass’ is a film about survival, courage and the strength to move on. It a...

ttff/16 future critics: Diwali-The Gift of Dance

—Published on Tue 27 Sep, 2016.

This is a very interesting short documentary. It highlights a cultural stereotype that still exists today. How can a man of African descent...

ttff/16 future critics: sugars (jafta propella)

—Published on Mon 26 Sep, 2016.

Sugars perceives herself as a morally upstanding person but circumstances and opportunity have conspired to test her virtue. The film gradua...

ttff/16 future critics: Shoot The Girl (Jafta Propella)

—Published on Sun 25 Sep, 2016.

The momentum never stops as the main characters, a Rastafarian dad and his 10-year-old daughter, Likkle, and a gangster, appropriately calle...

ttff/16 future critics: timeless

—Published on Sat 24 Sep, 2016.

Director and story writer, Edward LaBorde Jr, charges this film with two enthralling love stories, both from different eras, which are inter...

ttff/16 future critics: the absentee

—Published on Sat 24 Sep, 2016.

‘The Absentee’ explores what has become, in the last few decades, a far more common upbringing in Trinidad – single parent households,...

ttff/16 future critics: Nightmare Before Wedding

—Published on Fri 23 Sep, 2016.

by Shiv Sawh- ttff/16 Top Future Critic Dreams are universal and this short film is inspired by the dream of all dreams, that being Lewis...

ttff/16 future critics: Caratal

—Published on Fri 23 Sep, 2016.

Caratal pays tribute to longstanding comedian/story teller Ramdeen Ramjattan also known as John Agitation. It’s a unique personality profi...

ttff/16 future critics: Bear Story

—Published on Thu 22 Sep, 2016.

This Oscar winning short edifies the minds of those who experience it, bringing across a significant and historic event while making it fami...

ttff/16 future critics: Presos

—Published on Thu 22 Sep, 2016.

Ramirez’s direction and Paulo Soto’s cinematography captures in almost claustrophobic detail how imprisoning a classroom, a home or a re...