Trinidad and Tobago / All works
Feature film
The Hummingbird Tree
Noella Smith · 1992
Synopsis
In Trinidad, in 1946, as the elections that open the vote to the island's black and Indian people approach, Alan, aged twelve, the son of a white family, makes friends with two Indian children, Jaillin and her brother Kaiser. This friendship forms while tensions between races, religions and classes rise around them.
Context
The television film, eighty-four minutes long, is a BBC production for its Screen One series, shot in Trinidad from Ian McDonald's novel published in 1969, from a screenplay by Jonathan Falla. Patrick Bergin and Susan Wooldridge play the parents of Alan, played by Tom Beasley, alongside Desha Penco and Sunil Ramjitsingh, who play Jaillin and Kaiser, and Clive Wood.
Who it is for
For seeing on screen a Trinidadian classic of childhood and friendship, in English only.
Prizes and reception
Time Out judges the acting, the screenplay and the direction honest rather than inspired.
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