The work of regional and local filmmakers will be on display free of charge this weekend at the Hairouna Film Festival.
Building on the tremendous success of the last 5 years, the highly anticipated Hairouna Film Festival returns this Friday May 24th for an exciting 2 nights of regional and Vincentian movie screenings.
Festival Director and filmmaker Aiko Roudette made an appearance on WE FM’s Activated Mornings program this week, where he provided a schedule of activities for this weekend’s event.
“Friday the 24th we have our opening night and we’re showing three short films. This year it’s Friday and Saturday, 24th and 25th. It’s happening at Flowt beach bar. Friday, we have our opening nights, we have three short films, one from Haiti, one from Trinidad, and the other one is a UK diaspora film, which is told through the perspective of a child, it’s a very, very cool short film; and then we have a feature film that’s from Jamaica. So that’s Friday and then on Saturday when we have our, Well, my favorite night of the whole festival, which is the Vincentian night, and we we’re showing the work of like 10 Vincentian filmmakers, original films that have not been shown some of them are not available online,” miss Roudette said.
According to an official release, Vincentian Movie Night will close out the festival on Saturday, May 25th with a line-up of films that are both thought-provoking and exhilarating.
Vincentian Movie Night will premiere the long-awaited film “Cart Man” by Grace Peters-Clarke, the winner of the Hairouna Film Lab’s 2021 Script Challenge.
The Hairouna Film Lab is a script-to-screen competition that mentors Vincentian writer/ directors and awards them production funds and support. It is aimed at promoting the development of original Vincentian films.
