The National Cultural Foundation is inviting local film makers to submit films to be screened at the CARIFESTA edition of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFT), being held from Saturday, August 17, to Friday, August 23.
The event will feature free screenings at various venues, and showcase new shorts, features, animation, narrative films and documentaries from around the Caribbean region and its diaspora, as well as a few guest countries.
The film festival will be curated, and each participating country will be asked to identify, recommend and submit up to five new films that have not been previously shown at the TTFT, and were completed after January 2017.
Entries which do not adhere to the outlined conditions will be disqualified. A separate completed entry form is required for each title, and each entrant is limited to three titles.
The deadline for the submission of entries is Friday, May 24. A copy of the film should be supplied, along with the entry form, in one of the following formats: DVD; Blu-Ray or Vimeo, or YouTube link for pre-screening between May 27 and 31.
Completed forms and other materials must be addressed and submitted in a sealed envelope to the Chief Executive Officer, National Cultural Foundation, West Terrace, St. James.
For more information or entry forms, persons should contact the Film Commissioner at the National Cultural Foundation at 417-6644 or 243-5294. They may also email annette.nias@barbados.gov.bb or projectsbarbados@gmail.com.