Bim screens free tonight

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Sunday, August 5, 2012

The T&T Film Festival will host a screening of the classic T&T film Bim tonight at the National Library, Port-of-Spain. The showing is the first of a series of film screenings in Side by Side, a programme in celebration of the 50th anniversary of independence. Side by Side also includes an exhibition opening on August 16 at NAPA, Port-of-Spain, and a film competition that ran from July-August. The film series runs until August 25 at various venues. Tonight’s screening begins at 7 pm with the short film This Land of Ours, followed by the rarely shown Bim, a 1974 thriller about the rise of a poor boy to wealth, power and corruption. Other films to be screened in the series include The Right and the Wrong, which was released in 1970 and was the first local feature film in colour, and a series of short films from the archives of the Government Film Unit. Side by Side is supported by the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Independence. All the screenings are free and open to the public.

For more information on Side by Side go to www.ttfilmfestival.com or call 621-0709.

Screening Schedule

AUGUST: All screenings are subject to change.

Sunday 5

National Library, Port-of-Spain, 7 pm

This Land of Ours (31 mins) + Bim (102 mins)

Monday 6

National Library, Port-of-Spain, 2-6 pm

Bobby Simpson’s Australian Cricket Team (12 mins) + Captain of the People: 100 Anniversary of the Birth of Arthur Cipriani (50 mins) + Labour Day 27th Anniversary (40 mins) + Bacchanal Time (110 mins)

Tuesday 7

National Library, Port-of-Spain, 2-6 pm

East Dry River (12 mins) + Cine Magazine 1954 – 1 (14 mins) + T&T in the 1980s (33 mins) + Pan Fusion (25 mins) + Mama Dis is Mas (40 mins) + 18 on Steel (18 mins) + The Rig (90 mins)

Arima Basketball Court, 7 pm

18 on Steel (18 mins) + The Right and the Wrong (100 mins)

Wednesday 8

National Library, Port-of-Spain,

2–6 pm

The Louis Brothers (13 mins) + A Man and His Work: Pat Chu Foon (15 mins) + Who the Cap Fits (30 mins) + Westwood Park (30 mins) + Terrific and Tranquil (30 mins) + The Panman (110 mins)

Thursday 9

National Library, Port-of-Spain,

2–6 pm

Hurricane Flora (8 mins) + Turn of the Tide (98 mins) + Men of Grey II: Flight of the Ibis (94 mins)

Medulla Art Gallery, Woodbrook, 7 pm

A Man and His Work: Pat Chu Foon (15 mins) + Mama Dis is Mas (40 mins)

Friday 10

National Library, Port-of-Spain, 2–6 pm

Our Forgotten Ones (6 mins) + Brother Frederick (21 mins) + This Land of Ours (31 mins) + Girl From India (95 mins)

Magdalena Grand Resort, Tobago, 7 pm

Hurricane Flora (8 mins) + Fire Down Below (116 mins)

Thursday 16

Mayaro Resource Centre, 7 pm

Carnival in T&T (20 mins) + Bacchanal Time (110 mins)

Sunday 19

Divali Nagar Site, Chaguanas,

7 pm

Bridge of Friendship: Visit of Indira Gandhi (13 mins) + Girl From India (95 mins)

Monday 20