A story of shanty-town life in Trinidad. Calvary Hill is the home of Aldrick Prospect, who lives for the carnival and his once-a-year chance to play dragon. Here too live Miss Cleothilda, the ageing carnival queen, Philo the Calypsonian, and Fisheye, who flaunts his strength in the steel bands.[...]
One hundred years after Emancipation, the diverse people of Trinidad African, Asian, and European have not settled into the New World. In Salt, an unforgettable cast of men and women strive with wit and passion to make sense of life in an evolving homeland."[...]
"Maker, destroyer, recorder, revealer: that is Earl Lovelace and here he is at his soaring rhapsodic best. Starring two hapless almost-been's in search of movie fame, "Is Just A Movie" takes us on wild loving absurdist journey to the heart of a contemporary Trinidad, a Trinidad so ravishingly al[...]