Nom Tèw (Man of the Soil)

trinidad+tobago film festival 2010 screening

Year	2009
Duration	7 minutes
Type	Documentary short
Country	Dominica/France
Language	Kwéyòl, French and English, with English subtitles
Director(s)	Pierre Deschamps
Rating	All Ages
Contact	www.pierredeschamp.com

[divider]

Jerry Maka West is a Rastafarian who lives a simple life in Dominica’s forested interior, his Zion. Here he grows and prepares his food just as his grandparents taught him. Jerry skips in and out of the modern world, never really being drawn into it. Instead, he prefers to remain close to nature, working hard to put in as much as he takes out, in harmony with a living earth.

Trinidad & Tobago premiere.

[divider]