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Calypso Rose — A success story of Emancipation

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Calypso Rose The Lioness Of The Jungle’s co-producer Jean Michel Gibert, left, TTFC CEO Carla Foderingham, Calypso Rose and deputy PS in the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism Vel Lewis.

 

Emancipation Day is here again, and what  better example of achievement than T&T’s very own icon McCartha Linda Sandy-Lewis, better known as Calypso Rose. The message featured in her international film, Calypso Rose The Lioness Of The Jungle, is an educational tool that digs deep into the story of the emancipation of slavery and the emancipation of women. Filmed in OUIDA, the second gate of slavery, in Benin, West Africa, the production features the journey of Rose to the land of her ancestors. 
 
 
It is produced by local company Maturity Productions with the support of the Equity Grant Programme of the Trinidad & Tobago Film Company, and is now being broadcast on PBS to more than 150 million US households and on PBS World to 50 countries—a first time for any T&T film/ documentary. The documentary is also distributed in the US to universities by Women Make Movies and to stores by VP Records. The film will be screened today at the Little Carib Theatre, Woodbrook, from 6.30 pm.
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