![]() “In the film industry for example, one of the biggest US film festivals, SXSW, was cancelled. “There was, over the course of two or three days (if that long), a string of high-profile cancellations and postponements,” the interim executive director of Filmco, Mariel Brown, wrote in response to e-mailed questions about the project. Finished films heading for now shuttered cinemas either went direct to streaming or had their releases postponed. The plans for the 2020 film festival might need dramatic revision.įor shut-ins, which is almost everyone, there was Netflix and cable TV, neither of which offers local menus of programming. On its surface, the #Watchamovieonus project, which streamed 14 regional films between March 28 to April 10 on the TT Film Festival (ttff) website, was an inventive response to the dull reality of the covid19 lockdown.Ĭinemas were closed. A report by Mark Lyndersay for Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday.
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