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Race to studiofilmclub

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TT Film Festival 2011 FROM THE ORGANISERS: studiofilmclub Building 7 Fernandes Industrial Centre Eastern Main Road Laventille Port of Spain Thursday Sept 29&30th doors open 7:00pm feature commences 7:30pm(curfew/state of emergency hours..sigh.)   ALL WELCOME... & FREE! STUDIOFILMCLUB are pleased once again to be collaborating with the  Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival  in 2011 - our fifth year together. This year we are extremely excited to be screening two films by  the London based director  ASIF KAPADIA. We will be screening his critically aclaimed first feature THE WARRIOR and his most recent sensation SENNA. Two very different types of film.. A very special thanks to Asif and his producers for so kindly allowing SFC to present his films to a Trinidadian audience for the very first time! Thursday Sept 29th 7:30 screen time SENNA (Asif Kapadia/UK/2010/106') PERHAPS YOU HAVE NO INTEREST in Formula One racing. Perhaps you...

People, the European Film Festival opens tday

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  We are being spoiled... THE 13th annual Trinidad and Tobago European Film Festival opens tonight with a screening of La Conjura de El Escorial , a Spanish film by director Antonio del Real featuring Julia Ormond and Jason Issacs. Showtime: 8pm at MovieTowne. Before that, there'll be a reception with plenty of flamenco, we've been warned. Among the more anticipated films of the festival, which holds full screenings at MovieTowne from October 14 to November 3, is Four Minutes (Vier Minuten ) , the sensational 2006 German film by Chris Kraus which follows an elderly piano teacher as she trains a convict at a women's prison. The Times Online describes the piece as, "a marvellous piece of cinema that hides its secrets like a Russian doll." This one is already getting us wet. Loads of other films are screening too, like the French film Un Secret , by Claude Miller,  which follows what happens when a 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret. And there is th...