Mor­vant film­mak­er Dami­an “Ras­ta­man” Mar­cano has se­cured his sec­ond con­sec­u­tive Em­my Award, and he’s ded­i­cat­ing it to all of T&T.

The 78th edi­tion of the awards were held on Mon­day, at which the US se­ries The Pitt won Out­stand­ing Dra­ma Se­ries. Mar­cano is one of the show’s co-pro­duc­ers, which airs on HBO Max.

“(These Em­my Awards) be­long to Mor­vant, to Port-of-Spain, to every young dream­er from Laven­tille to Point Fortin, from Scar­bor­ough to San Fer­nan­do,” Mar­cano said.

The show won the same cat­e­go­ry at last year’s awards.

Mar­cano urged the peo­ple of T&T to be­lieve in them­selves and con­tin­ue as­pir­ing, show­ing the world the pow­er of a small is­land with a mighty spir­it. “Love al­lyuh deeply,” he added.

Mar­cano grew up in Mor­vant and moved to the Unit­ed States when he was about 12 years old.

He has spo­ken about Mor­vant be­ing a ma­jor in­flu­ence on his film-mak­ing. He de­scribed him­self as com­ing from “the tip­py top” of the com­mu­ni­ty and com­pared it to the set­ting of City of God.

—Naris­sa Fras­er