Gillian Moore

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Film Fes­ti­val (TTFF) is con­tin­u­ing its dri­ve to de­vel­op the lo­cal film in­dus­try, with a work­shop aimed at let­ting lo­cal prac­ti­tion­ers ben­e­fit from in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pe­ri­ence.Cameron Bai­ley, co-di­rec­tor of the Toron­to In­ter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val (TIFF), will speak at a work­shop and film screen­ing to be held at Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre to­day, from 1-5 pm.Pre­sent­ed by Flow, the event will be an in­ter­ac­tive work­shop for film­mak­ers and oth­ers in­ter­est­ed in the film and tele­vi­sion in­dus­try. It al­so takes place in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Trinidad & To­ba­go Coali­tion of Ser­vice In­dus­tries (TTC­SI). The work­shop forms part of Na­tion­al Ser­vices Week, which be­gan on Oc­to­ber 31 and ends to­mor­row.

Bai­ley will share his ex­ten­sive knowl­edge of a num­ber of top­ics, in­clud­ing pri­vate and state sup­port for de­vel­op­ing a film and tele­vi­sion in­dus­try; how TIFF and oth­er ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al film fes­ti­vals work; and the mar­ket­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of films.Born in Lon­don to Caribbean par­ents, Bai­ley grew up in Eng­land and Bar­ba­dos be­fore im­mi­grat­ing to Cana­da. He has been a film pro­gram­mer for TIFF for more than 12 years, and has been re­spon­si­ble for the an­nu­al se­lec­tion of films from Africa, South Asia and the Philip­pines.

In 2010-2011 Bai­ley was co-chair of the Arts & Cul­ture Work­ing Group of Toron­to's Civic Ac­tion. He was al­so a mem­ber of the Cre­ative Cap­i­tal group that pre­pared a May­or's re­port on Toron­to's cul­tur­al sec­tor. He is a for­mer board mem­ber of the On­tario Film De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion, and served on the ad­vi­so­ry Board of the Roy­al On­tario Mu­se­um's In­sti­tute for Con­tem­po­rary Cul­ture.

Af­ter Bai­ley's pre­sen­ta­tion, there will be a screen­ing of Ian Harnar­ine's Dou­bles with Slight Pep­per, win­ner of the prize for best Cana­di­an short film at the 2011 edi­tion of TIFF.The TTFF is giv­en lead­ing spon­sor­ship by RBC Roy­al Bank and is sup­port­ed by the Trinidad & To­ba­go Film Com­pa­ny, the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny, the Tourism De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny, bpTT and the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

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The par­tic­i­pa­tion fee is $150.

Reg­is­ter on­line at http://ttc­si.org/home/nsw2011-filmin­fo­cus.php.

Al­so vis­it: www.ttfilm­fes­ti­val.com.