AKIM­BO has part­nered with kweliTV to present Movie Night Sun­days, a month­ly film screen­ing se­ries.

The launch of Movie Night Sun­days will be held on June 16th at 6.30 pm at AKIM­BO, 56 Sad­dle Road, Mar­aval, Port-of­S­pain. The month­ly film screen­ings will show­case kweliTV’s cat­a­logue of award win­ning films every oth­er Sun­day each month.

AKIM­BO, a known cre­ative event space, ex­cit­ed­ly share with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s lo­cal film en­thu­si­asts the Movie Night Sun­days film screen­ing se­ries as it of­fers them the op­por­tu­ni­ty to see forms of ex­pres­sions in film from around the world and the African di­as­po­ra, in a unique and in­ti­mate set­ting. It al­so al­lows for kweliTV’s glob­al film­mak­ers to have their work viewed by film en­thu­si­asts out­side of the more es­tab­lished film fes­ti­vals.

The evening’s launch plans to fea­ture 1 short film ‘Bit­ter­sweet’ by Bri­an­na Ab­dul­lah and one lo­cal fea­ture length film ‘Be­tween Friends’ by Omari Jack­son.

Bit­ter­sweet tells the sto­ry of Aaron, a young col­lege fresh­man who just ex­pe­ri­enced a bad breakup. Ea­ger to hop back in­to the dat­ing world, Aaron turns to on­line dat­ing in hopes of meet­ing “the one”. Through­out his jour­ney to find true love, he comes in­to a few pe­cu­liar young women that dis­cour­age him from want­i­ng to pur­sue In­ter­net dat­ing any fur­ther. Fol­low Aaron’s jour­ney in this short ro­man­tic com­e­dy to see where his heart leads him.

Be­tween Friends, set in Trinidad and To­ba­go, is a film that presents an an­thol­o­gy of in­ter­sect­ing sto­ries and char­ac­ters who are all con­nect­ed to one an­oth­er in some way. The sto­ry­line, fo­cused on two gen­er­a­tions of con­tem­po­rary mid­dle-class Trinida­di­ans, grad­u­al­ly ex­pos­es the hopes, se­crets, lies and be­tray­als in the lives of the var­i­ous char­ac­ters. For some, this is a re­al­i­ty check, for oth­ers a dev­as­tat­ing new re­al­i­ty.

Tick­ets for Movie Night Sun­days are avail­able on­line on Eventbrite. Con­tri­bu­tion is $40.

Tick­et hold­ers have the chance to win great prizes via on­line com­pe­ti­tion and door prizes.

Movie Night Sun­days is sup­port­ed by La Vapeur Es­tate, Gourmet Pop and Aun­ty M’s Ponche de Crème to which they have been in­stru­men­tal in as­sist­ing to make this event a pos­si­bil­i­ty and sup­port­ing the cre­ative in­dus­try and all forms of cre­ative ex­pres­sion.

For more in­for­ma­tion please con­tact 748-7156 or email akim­botrinidad@gmail.com.

About AKIM­BO

Es­tab­lished No­vem­ber 2015, ur­ban con­tem­po­rary cre­ative event space show­cas­ing art, film, lit­er­a­ture, live per­for­mances, pop up shops and cul­tur­al events. It sup­ports the strongest lo­cal and re­gion­al brands across art, film, fash­ion, mu­sic and lifestyle. As an in­de­pen­dent and cre­ative­ly led project, its ap­proach is to fo­cus on pro­vid­ing a plat­form for cre­ative tal­ents to be ex­posed to the gen­er­al pub­lic.

About kweliTV

kweliTV is an in­ter­ac­tive stream­ing plat­form that show­cas­es, undis­cov­ered doc­u­men­taries, films, web shows, chil­dren’s pro­gram­ming, news and more, pro­duced by in­de­pen­dent, glob­al­ly di­verse and unique film­mak­ers and jour­nal­ists, with a fo­cus on the African Di­as­po­ra. Its stream­ing plat­form hosts close to 300 films by over 100 film­mak­ers from all around the world, with over 15,000 users world­wide, where 98 per cent of kweliTV films have been of­fi­cial se­lec­tions at film fes­ti­vals and more than half are award-win­ning.