Migrant children playing the violin - Timehri Film Festival 2020
Still from Nearest Neighbours (L), Still from Yves & Variation (R) The girl plays a slow tune on her violin in the film Nearest Neighbours . She is from Venezuela, migrated to Trinidad & Tobago and living in an uncertain place. She probably brought her violin with her. In the film Yves & Variation , a young girl shows her sister how to play the violin. Their father, Yves, from Haiti, teaches them. They live in the USA. The Timehri Film Festival 2020 is online via Youtube and Facebook Live. A woman asked 'why so many documentaries' and one of the festival founders said this is what the film makers are making. Maybe some Caribbean true stories are better than fiction... I don't know that I have ever heard of the violin featuring in any stories real or otherwise of migration in the Caribbean. The 'Guyana' films screened on the opening feature one film shot in Guyana and three others created through the Guyanese diaspora. They are not yet Grown...