Film Screening: BETTER MUS' COME @ University of Toronto, Toronto, ON - Sat Apr 7th!

Caribbean Studies at New College, University of Toronto invites you to a screening Better Mus’ Come, a coming of age drama set in Jamaica’s turbulent 1970s, against the backdrop of the Cold War, a national water crisis, an energy crisis, corruption, and numerous murder scandals that gave birth to the polarized violence gripping the streets of Kingston both then and now.

Writer/Director Storm Saulter and other panelists will do a talkback after the show

Location:  Innis College, 2 Sussex Avenue,  (one block south of Bloor between St. George and Huron St)

Time:  6pm

Admission:  FREE

See Trailer here:

Manifesto Hosts a Talk With Director Storm Saulter @ Manifesto HQ, Toronto, ON - Thurs Feb 2nd!

Manifesto will present a talk-back session and short film screening at 37 Bulwer with Jamaican film director Storm Saulter.

Manifesto, in association with Caribbean Tales Film Festival and Manifesto Jamaica will present a talk-back session and short film screening with Jamaican film director Storm Saulter, Director of the critically acclaimed film Better Mus' Come which will be making it's Canadian debut at the tiff Bell Lightbox as part of a fundraiser for Caribbean Tales Youth Film Festival (see previous http://themanifesto.ca/better-mus-come-canadian-premiere-screenings-at-tiff-bell-lightbox/).

Storm will screen two shorts from his New Caribbean Cinema collective (http://newcaribbeancinema.com) as part of the talk at Manifesto, as well as speaking to the process that went in to filming Better Mus' Come with the lead male actor Sheldon Shepherd, a spoken word artist and member of "No-Maddz" (http://nomaddzja.com) collective, a Jamaican dub poetry collective who fuse the art form with various music genres.

Thursday, February 2
Manifesto HQ
37 Bulwer Street
7-9pm
Cost: Pay What You Can
RSVP Necessary: rsvp@themanifesto.ca

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Note: The acclaimed film, Better Mus' Come will be making its Canadian premiere with two screenings at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto on February 4 and 5 as part of the Caribbean Tales Youth Film Festival. Tickets are available at tiff.net and CaribbeanTales-events.com