Don La Fou­cade

Film-mak­er Mariel Brown al­lowed a first look at her am­bi­tious new project, In­ward Hunger, on Sep­tem­ber 14.In­vit­ed guests were treat­ed to a pri­vate screen­ing of part one of the film, at the au­di­to­ri­um of the Er­ic Williams Fi­nan­cial Com­plex, Port-of-Spain.The lo­ca­tion was most ap­pro­pri­ate, as the movie tells the sto­ry of the life of this coun­try's first Prime Min­is­ter, Dr Er­ic Williams.Brown, who copped the prize for Best T&T Film at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Film Fes­ti­val with The Soli­tary Al­chemist in 2009, wel­comed guests, along with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from First Cit­i­zens Bank (FCB), Gov­ern­ment In­for­ma­tion Ser­vices Ltd (GISL) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Film Com­pa­ny (TTFC), all of which had lent fi­nan­cial sup­port to the project.Af­ter a re­cep­tion, Sharon Christo­pher, deputy CEO of FCB, con­grat­u­lat­ed Brown and said the bank was hap­py to be af­fil­i­at­ed with the film, as it cel­e­brat­ed its 18th year, ful­fill­ing Williams' vi­sion for "a tru­ly lo­cal bank". Andy John­son, CEO of GISL, not­ed that it was his pre­de­ces­sor, Max­ie Cuffie, who had giv­en Brown's film the green light, but added that he was pleased to see CISL in­vest in a "cul­ture of na­tion­al pride". He said the work would be aired, along with oth­er pa­tri­ot­ic fare, on Chan­nel 4 on Re­pub­lic Day, Sep­tem­ber 24.

Brown spoke last, say­ing that it was when her late fa­ther, the writer Wayne Brown, de­scribed Williams as a "trag­ic fig­ure", that she first be­came cu­ri­ous about his life. She not­ed that when it came to the top­ic of Dr Er­ic Williams, there seemed to be "no mid­dle ground", and that most peo­ple had very favourable or un­favourable opin­ions about the man known as the "Fa­ther of the Na­tion".The piece fea­tures some charm­ing so­cial and po­lit­i­cal footage from the pe­ri­od, in­ter­views with peo­ple who knew Williams, as well as writ­ings by Williams and oth­ers, read "in char­ac­ter" by ac­tors Nigel Scott, Cather­ine Em­manuel and Al­bert Laveau as Williams. The script was writ­ten by Alake Pil­grim and the piece was scored by Francesco Em­manuel.She thanked her spon­sors, as well as her team, Sa­vant Ltd, for their hard work in putting to­geth­er in­ter­views, and archival pho­tos to re-cre­ate a "vivid pic­ture of Trinidad in the 60s".

• Part 1 of In­ward Hunger by Mariel Brown will be aired on TV Chan­nel 4 at at 1 pm.