Dalton Narine, producer/director receives his award
California, USA -
Dalton Narine, producer/director
of “Mas Man Peter Minshall,”
recently picked up his fourth
award for Best Documentary at
the New York International Film
Festival Award Ceremony in
Beverly Hills, California. The
next day, while in Hollywood for
the screening of “Mas Man” at
the Los Angeles International
Film Festival, Narine learned
that the work had won its
category at the South African
International Film Festival.
Dalton Narine expresses appreciation for his award
Since
Mas Man’s success at two
earlier festivals, including the
Trinidad and Tobago Film
Festival in 2009, as a work in
progress, the film’s final cut
(57 mins.) has been the buzz on
the festival circuit, garnering
three more awards, including
Best Cinematography. It has been
nominated for Best Documentary
at nine festivals in the US, UK,
Asia and Africa. The next
screening is January 23, 2011 at Writers
Unlimited Film Festival in The
Hague, South Holland. Narine praised the mas man himself,
Peter Minshall, the Callaloo Co.,
the archivists at Trinidad and
Tobago’s Ministry
of Information film unit,
Trinidad and Tobago Film Co.,
main camera operator Benedict
Joseph, editor Eduardo Siu and
the local and international
interviewees who virtually
narrated the film.
Narine was also
in New York in October for a
private screening of
Mas Man
at New York’s Players Club and
even earlier
in May for another
held at Medgar Evers College.
Dalton Narine is a noted
steelpan historian, former
television host, film maker,
producer, director, accomplished
writer and was a member of
Highlanders and Trinidad All
Stars steel orchestras. He
is also a former editor of the
Miami Herald and former
associate editor for Ebony
magazine.
Photos by
Glen Lipton
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