Banyan Studio

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Since 1974, Banyan has distinguished itself as a producer of innovative and entertaining programmes which aim at the same time to inform and reflect Caribbean people and culture. This mixture of entertainment and social comment so akin to the Calypso, the folk song form originating in Trinidad, has become identified as the Banyan style and is applied in the hundreds of productions Banyan has prese

nted in the last 36 years. While maintaining and developing links with its community through co-productions with cultural organisations, trades unions, and community organisations, Banyan works internationally to have the region seen through the eyes of the Caribbean, producing on international standard video and film, for the world market. In 2004 Banyan started a community television station called Gayelle:THE CHANNEL Gayelle is the first, and still the only, over the air television station in the region to transmit 100% original local and regional programming 24 hours a day.

GAYELLE: an innovative and internationally acclaimed cultural magazine for TV by Banyan, a milestone in West Indian broa...
29/02/2020

GAYELLE: an innovative and internationally acclaimed cultural magazine for TV by Banyan, a milestone in West Indian broadcasting, was on TTT from 1985-1990.

23/01/2019

A DOC GEM OF THE LEGEND!! by Christopher Laird; We Continue Carnival celebrations with The Masman Peter Minshall, as he tells the story of his first band, aided w/ beautiful costume drawings and live footage... as only Minshall can...

See Trailer & CT-TV info:http://caribbeantales-tv.com/product/paradise-lost/ -

23/01/2019

Late Night Lime (1990) Pat Bishop and Ray Holman with Tony Hall.

05/12/2018

04/08/2018
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02/05/2018

LATE NIGHT LIME (1990).

20/02/2018
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive | Alexander Street



Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive

Banyan's (their most popular and well-known work) started as a half-hour cultural magazine on Trinidad and Tobago Television - ttt in 1985. This Gayelle programme is the most innovative and exciting cultural television in the Caribbean. Gayelle has been acclaimed at many international festivals and showings. It has served as a model for the creation of similar productions in the Caribbean, Central America, and Canada, and is used in television training institutes in the U.S. as an example of how exciting television can be made with simple resources. Without doubt the most exciting series to come out of the Anglophone Caribbean.

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20/07/2017

Since 1974, Banyan has distinguished itself as a producer of innovative and entertaining programmes which aim at the same time to inform and reflect Caribbean people and culture. This mixture of entertainment and social comment so akin to the Calypso, the folk song form originating in Trinidad, has become identified as the Banyan style and is applied in the hundreds of productions Banyan has presented in the last 36 years.

While maintaining and developing links with its community through co-productions with cultural organisations, trades unions, and community organisations, Banyan works internationally to have the region seen through the eyes of the Caribbean, producing on international standard video and film, for the world market.

In 2004 Banyan started a community television station called Gayelle:THE CHANNEL Gayelle is the first, and still the only, over the air television station in the region to transmit 100% original local and regional programming 24 hours a day.

26/05/2017
Gayelle - Cultural Sprangalang - Banyan

This is a short clip from the Gayelle series. Since 1974, Banyan has distinguished itself as a producer of innovative and entertaining programmes which aim a...

20/08/2016
Tony Hall


This is the mysterious master tape that came to the surface the other day in Stockholm. It was made as an effort to connect The Caribbean and Scandinavia through culture and music. It is also a reminder of a time when international/tropical pop music was aired on primetime TV in Sweden, week after week. Tropico-pop was the name of the game, presented and produced by Thomas Gylling, in cooperation with Meter TV.

In 1993 a short and simple pilot program was done in Port of Spain, the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago. Aiming for the Caribbean and US market it was recorded as a short teaser for a time of 30 minutes. 20 years ago this was unique in an era when television was dominated by US and UK productions pumping out mainstream MTV type of music. Playing videos from the Caribbean, France, Africa, Latin America and such was unheared of. With guidance from Mr Christopher Laird (Banyan productions in Trinidad) Thomas teamed up with actor and presenter Tony Hall to give a small taste of what the Tropico-pop concept had to offer when it came to music and international outlook.

Featuring artists like Kassav, Mighty Sparrow, Alpha Blondy and master drummer Dou Dou N´diya Rose.

https://www.thomasgylling.com
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09/11/2015

Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival Pioneers Award 2013 - lime.tt photo

Banyan – http://www.pancaribbean.com
Tony Hall, Christopher Laird, Bruce Paddington
Television and Video Producers
It all started in a classroom at Tranquility Government Secondary School in Port of Spain in 1974. Today, Banyan continues to take us to class, with class. Exploring many formats—documentary, drama, public information video, music and dance—along the way, Banyan has amassed the most comprehensive video archive in the English-speaking Caribbean. Creating as a team and as individuals, Banyan continues to distinguish itself as a producer of innovative and entertaining programmes that influence generations. (Citation for the award by TTFF.)

25/09/2013

Lime.tt

25/09/2013
TTFF Pioneers Banyan

Ten minute potted history of Banyan honored as a Pioneer by the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festrival 2013

19/04/2012

Late Night Lime (1990) Tony Hall with Pat Bishop and Ray Holman

19/04/2012

Gayelle the channel [2004]

04/09/2011

LATE NIGHT LIME (1990) Tony Hall with Pat Bishop and Ray Holman

01/05/2011

Gayelle The Channel (founded 2004)

01/05/2011

Errol Fabien: Co-Founder with Christopher Laird of Gayelle The Channel.

13/03/2011

Bruce Paddington

13/03/2011

Banyan at the Cacique Awards 2002

13/03/2011

Christopher Laird

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Since 1974, Banyan has distinguished itself as a producer of innovative and entertaining programmes which aim at the same time to inform and reflect Caribbean people and culture. This mixture of entertainment and social comment so akin to the Calypso, the folk song form originating in Trinidad, has become identified as the Banyan style and is applied in the hundreds of productions Banyan has presented in the last 36 years. While maintaining and developing links with its community through co-productions with cultural organisations, trades unions, and community organisations, Banyan works internationally to have the region seen through the eyes of the Caribbean, producing on international standard video and film, for the world market.

Banyan developed out of the Trinidad & Tobago Television Workshop formed in 1974 dedicated to providing Trinidad & Tobago and the region with quality local television productions.

Exploring many formats: documentary, drama, public information, music and dance, Banyan has continued to develop a uniquely Caribbean approach which has been labelled Call and Response Television.

In 1977 Banyan produced the Anglophone Caribbean's first 'soap opera', a 13 part drama series on family life. WHO THE C.A.P. FITS . . . This was followed by other drama series and documentaries.

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