Guyana Republic Golden Jubilee Film Festival 2020

24/02/2020

The process

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13/02/2020

Check out the movie schedule for FRIDAY 14, 2020
Three locations -Moray House -Theatre Guild -Umana Yana
Take the family out to experience Guyanese Films.

10/02/2020

✨ ARE YOU EXCITED? ✨

The Golden Jubilee Film Festival 2020 will be showcasing some of the best films from our very own local filmmakers.

-- DAY THREE --

Films will be shown at:
☑️ Moray House
☑️ The Umana Yana
☑️ Theatre Guild

SHOWTIME: 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM

09/02/2020

✨ ARE YOU EXCITED? ✨

The Golden Jubilee Film Festival 2020 will be showcasing some of the best films from our very own local filmmakers.

-- DAY TWO --

Films will be shown ONLY at the National Cultural Centre.

SHOWTIME: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

08/02/2020

✨GUYANA FILM FESTIVAL 2020 ✨

The Ministry of the Presidency, Department of Social Cohesion Culture Youth & Sport in collaboration with CineGuyana Inc. INVITES you to celebrate the LAUNCH OF THE GUYANA FILM FESTIVAL 2020.

--- Enjoy a spectacular night with us, as we celebrate our Guyanese Talent.

Date: Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: The Umana Yana

RSVP: (592) 662-1111
DRESSCODE: Semi-Formal

08/02/2020

✨ ARE YOU EXCITED? ✨

The Golden Jubilee Film Festival 2020 will be showcasing some of the best films from our very own local filmmakers.

The event will span over three days, 14th - 16th February, with films showing at different prominent historical buildings in Guyana such as:
✅ Moray House
✅ The National Cultural Centre
✅ Theatre Guild
✅ The Umana Yana

SEE YOU THERE!

30/01/2020

The Film Festival dates have changed to:
-- February 14th, 15th & 16th 2020.

Details to follow!

19/01/2020

Please tag your friends and family, help us get to word out

11/01/2020

✨ SUBMISSION CLOSED ✨

Thank you to everyone that send their entries in to be recognized at the Guyana Republic Golden Jubliee Film Festival 2020. 💛

10/01/2020

If you're a fan of movie snacks, there's probably one thing you've been looking forward to, and smelling since you walked into the cinema. 🍿

-- Let us know in the comments below your favourite snacks!

10/01/2020

3 more Hours to Deadline! 😮Oh how time flies.

08/01/2020

Let us know which you prefer in the comments below! ☺️🎬

06/01/2020

HAVE YOU SUBMITTED YOUR ENTRY AS YET?

04/01/2020

Tell us in the comments below! 😄🎬

01/01/2020

I wish this year brings you success in all parts of your life - career, personal, and love! ✨

30/12/2019

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! 🗓✨

The Film Festival is just one event in Guyana's Republic Golden Jubilee celebration.

25/12/2019

May your Christmas be filled with love, joy and laughter! ✨🎄

18/12/2019

✨ We've extended our submission deadline to January 10th, 2020. ✨

SUBMISSIONS:

☑️ Submit via flash drive or email link to [email protected] or address envelopes "Guyana Republic Golden Jubilee Film Festival 2020"

To: Ministry of the Presidency Department of Social Cohesion, Culture Youth and Sport
--- 71 - 72 Main & Quamina Streets, G/Town

The is open to productions in the following categories:

✅Feature Film (over 50min)
✅Short Film (1-49min)

✅Feature Documentary (over 50min)
✅Short Documentary (under 45min)

✅Animated Shorts (1-30min)
✅Animated Feature (over 50min)

✅Music Videos (under 7min)

✅Web Series Pilots (under 15min)
✅Movie Trailers (under 5min)

✅Creative Commercials (30sec)
✅Creative Commercials (60sec)

DISCLAIMER
📣 The Guyana Republic Golden Jubilee Film Festival 2020 reserves the right to determine the eligibility of submissions to be screened at the festival.

03/12/2019

Guyanese in Film: Norman Beaton

He was born on October 31, 1934, in Georgetown, British Guiana as Norman Lugard Beaton. He was an actor, known for Desmond's (1989), Real Life (1984) and Endgame by Samuel Beckett (1989). He died on December 13, 1994, in Georgetown, Guyana.

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19/11/2019

Guyanese in Film: Rhona Fox

Guyanese-American actress Rhona Fox was last week honoured with the Rising Sun Award at the Caribbean Heritage ‘Salute to Hollywood & the Arts’ gala in Hollywood, California.

According to a press release, she was honoured with actor Reno Wilson, who currently stars on “Mike & Molly” on CBS and is of Antiguan heritage and Paula Madison, a former vice-president of NBC Universal and part owner of WNBA Los Angeles Sparks team, who is of Jamaican heritage.

20130629rhonaAccording to her website, Rhona has appeared in the film Beware The Night, and on television in a CBS pilot “Made In Jersey”; “Law & Order: SVU” in an episode title ‘Educated Guess’; “The Good Wife” as a stand-in for Archie Panjabi and as a stand-in for Reshma Shetty on “Royal Pains”.

Meanwhile, the release said that the Caribbean Heritage Organisation has been hosting the awards since 2007 and selected Rhona as this year’s emerging actor. The Rising Sun is awarded to one actor of Caribbean heritage each year. In her acceptance speech, Rhona was quoted as saying that she was humbled to receive the prestigious honour and shared it with everyone attending. “I’m so thrilled to receive the Rising Sun Award from the Caribbean Heritage Organisztion and had an amazing time celebrating this incredible recognition in true Hollywood fashion,” the release quoted Rhona as saying. “All this support encourages me to keep chasing this crazy dream of mine and I look forward to making my Caribbean people proud.”


The red carpet event, which also served as a fundraiser for local charities and a scholarship in Haiti, took place at the Hilton Universal City.

The awards were presented to the three honorees, with video tributes introducing each person.

Marva Herman, Executive Director of the Caribbean Heritage Organization and its founder Dr. Claire Nelson, who presented the award to Rhona, both saluted her.

Rhona Fox was born in Essequibo and relocated with her family to Nassau, Bahamas when she was 10. She later migrated to New York to attend university. The release said that in 2012, she was “awarded Guyana’s Golden Arrowhead Award” along with “the City of New York Proclamation, for her contributions to the arts”.
- Stabroek News

17/11/2019

Guyanese in Film: Marc Gomes

He was born in Georgetown, Guyana as Marc Andrew Gomes. He is an actor, known for The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998), Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002) and Divas (1995).

His work in the theatre led to leading roles and appearances in numerous movies and series. He was a lead on the television series ‘Lightning Force’, ‘The Crow: Stairway to Heaven’ and ‘Sue Thomas FBeye’, among many others. He also was seen in recurring roles on the network shows ‘Commander in Chief’ and ‘Criminal Minds’.
Gomes has directed several plays, and wrote and directed the short film, ‘Stir Crazy’, which made several film festival appearances in the U.S. in 2002 and 2003.

Marc when he first migrated in 1971
As a guest artist member of The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, Gomes volunteered with underage offenders in the Los Angeles penal system. The company works with former gang members, and uses aspects of theatre: writing, staging and performing, as a means to foster pride, self-confidence and racial tolerance. This is where Gomes’s passion for teaching emerged.

guyanatimesinternational | https://www.imdb.com

17/11/2019

how it's done !

16/11/2019

16/11/2019

Guyanese in Film:
The CCH stands for Carol Christine Hilaria, her birth name. Most of her characters are enriched with positive attributes and it is a testament to this actress' abilities that she continues on such a high plane in a four-decade career.

Born on Christmas Day 1952 in Guyana, she was raised on a sugar cane plantation. Her parents, Betsy Enid Arnella (James) and Ronald Urlington Pounder, moved to the States while she was still a young girl, but she and her sister were sent to a convent boarding school in Britain where they were introduced to art and the classics. Following high school graduation, she arrived in New York and studied at Ithaca College, where her acting talents were discovered. Regional and classical repertory theater followed, earning roles in such productions as "The Mighty Gents" with Morgan Freeman at the New York Shakespeare Festival and "Open Admissions," her Broadway debut. Her preference for a warmer climate led to her move to Hollywood in the late 1970s.

After bit roles in All That Jazz (1979) and I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982), she found cult status in the art-house film Bagdad Cafe (1987) ("Bagdad Café" in the US) as the offbeat owner of a roadside café, but Pounder's prominence came with television. Usually cast as a confident, strong-minded professional, she is known for her understated intensity and earned an Emmy nomination for her stint on the hospital drama ER (1994). She has performed in a number of highly acclaimed topical dramas, including American Playhouse: Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985), Common Ground (1990), Murder in Mississippi (1990), Funny Valentines (1999) and Boycott (2001), for which a number of kudos have come her way.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / [email protected]

13/11/2019

Guyanese in Film: Selwyn Hinds -Screenwriter
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is a producer and writer, known for Washington Black, The Twilight Zone (2019) and Prince of Cats.

13/11/2019

✨ CALL FOR ENTRIES ✨

The Guyana Film Festival welcomes any avid film-makers to submit their entries NO LATER THAN 16:30 (4:30 PM) on Wednesday, December 18 2019. 🎬

The is open to productions in the following categories:

✅Feature Film (over 50min)
✅Short Film (1-49min)

✅Feature Documentary (over 50min)
✅Short Documentary (under 45min)

✅Animated Shorts (1-30min)
✅Animated Feature (over 50min)

✅Music Videos (under 7min)

✅Web Series Pilots (under 15min)
✅Movie Trailers (under 5min)

✅Creative Commercials (30sec)
✅Creative Commercials (60sec)

REQUIREMENTS
▪️ Films Should be created no longer than 10 years old.

DISCLAIMER
📣 The Guyana Film Festival reserves the right to determine the eligibility of submissions to be screened at the festival.

04/11/2019

Some Inspiration from Guyana's own

19/10/2019

Hello folks,

The Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana has been hosting a West Indian Literature Conference this week and there was a very late addition to the programme: a free event at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. Yao Ramesar, an award-winning Trinidadian filmmaker, will be screening one of his films at 1830hrs this evening, “Haiti Bride”.

If you have even a cursory interest in film, you’re invited to come along. The event is open to the public and you’ll have a chance to chat with Yao and some other academics if you wish.

Your presence would be most welcome, and please share among your own contacts.

Many thanks,
Andrew.

25/09/2019

Film Festival Tip #3:
Keep the opening credits short

Be mindful of opening credits… very lengthy credit sequences are generally hated by programmers and jurors as they take away from the story telling, for the most part, and delay a short films narrative. In a 10 minute film we do not need a 2-3 minute credit sequence! Be concise and precise in telling the story.

Daniel Sol, Festival Director, HollyShorts

23/09/2019

Tip 2: Have Awesome film stills

The images don’t have to be slick or printed on glossy paper, but they should be of high resolution and offer an accurate representation of the film. Good quality images are really useful for the subsequent marketing and publicity campaigns – a good image will be used everywhere!

-Jenny Neighbour, Program Manager, and Documentary Programmer, Sydney Film Festival

20/09/2019

Film Festival Tip #1: Submit Your Film Early!

You’re free to submit your film throughout the submission period, but the truth is the later you wait the harder it may be to land a spot. Festival programmers may (and likely) begin viewing and choosing films before the end of the submission period. As time goes on the programming slots will fill, possibly making it more competitive for late applicants. If you’re confident enough in your work to be submitting to the fest, then you need to submit early – when the judges/programmers are fresh and less stressed.

20/09/2019

to 'new' technology...Only 15 lbs 💪🏽