The artis­tic am­bi­ence of the Callaloo Com­pa­ny mas camp in Ch­aguara­mas of­fered the per­fect set­ting for the screen­ing of Lim­bo when the Trinidad and To­ba­go film fes­ti­val (TTFF) and bpTT con­tin­ued their month­ly Com­mu­ni­ty Cin­er­gy se­ries last Sat­ur­day. A re­lease from bpTT said al­most 200 pa­trons were tak­en through a gamut of emo­tions as the 105-minute film ex­plored the ex­pe­ri­ences of a Nor­we­gian woman whose life falls apart as she and her fam­i­ly ad­just to ex­pa­tri­ate life in Trinidad in the 1970s. The film cap­tures the emo­tion­al­ly charged sto­ry of So­nia, who moves to Trinidad with her fam­i­ly to join her hus­band-a se­nior ex­ec­u­tive in the oil in­dus­try-who is hav­ing an af­fair with a lo­cal col­league. Re­leased in 2010 and di­rect­ed by Maria So­dahl, Lim­bo was shot on lo­ca­tion in T&T fea­tur­ing an in­ter­na­tion­al cast, in­clud­ing a num­ber of lo­cal ac­tors, among them Michael Cher­rie, Arnold Goind­han and Cather­ine Em­manuel. The film won the prize for best di­rec­tor at the Mon­tre­al Film Fes­ti­val and opened the Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val in Port-of-Spain last Oc­to­ber.

Danielle Jones, cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er, bpTT, ex­plained the ob­jec­tive be­hind Com­mu­ni­ty Cin­er­gy. "It is not of­ten that film afi­ciona­dos en­joy the priv­i­lege of ex­pe­ri­enc­ing films such as Lim­bo. What we are do­ing is tak­ing that film ex­pe­ri­ence to the com­mu­ni­ty so a va­ri­ety of au­di­ences can en­joy film in ways once on­ly ex­pe­ri­enced out­side of T&T." A spe­cial fea­ture at Sat­ur­day night's screen­ing was the pres­ence of two of the vin­tage cars used ex­ten­sive­ly in the film. Owned by Clif­ford Tardieu of V8 Boys Un­lim­it­ed mo­tor garage, the cars are a yel­low 1973 Mark 11 Coro­na and a black 1969 Toy­ota Crown. Tardieu, who sup­plied 65 cars for the pro­duc­tion, said it was a great thrill to see the cars in the film it­self, es­pe­cial­ly know­ing that it would be viewed all over the world. Mem­bers of the cast and crew who turned up for the screen­ing in­clud­ed Mar­garet A E Ju­lian, (the strong-willed house­keep­er, Mrs George), Cather­ine Em­manuel (the mis­tress), Al­i­son Smith-Dob­son (the school­teacher), Dion Bou­caud (the best boy) and Ter­ry Per­ry-Budin. The next Com­mu­ni­ty Cin­er­gy film-dance­hall doc­u­men­tary Hit Me With Mu­sic-will be screened at the St James Am­phithe­atre, West­ern Main Road, St James, on June 2. The screen­ing, which be­gins at 8 pm, will form part of the We­Beat Fes­ti­val.