Dreaming Rivers

Dreaming Rivers

Martina Attille

Screening 3
Tickets

Aug 16 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Doors open at 6:30 pm
La lumière collective

English

U.K., 1988
Short (30 minutes, 7 seconds)

Synopsis

Dreaming Rivers (1988) is a film written and directed by Martina Attille for Sankofa Film & Video. In this allegorical work, actor Corinne Skinner Carter performs the role of Ms T, a black Caribbean woman in transition. Her children Daughter (Angela Wynter), Sister (Nimmy March) and Sonny (Roderick Hart) sit at her bedside and attend to the unspoken intimacies of history and transnational belonging.

Director Biography

Martina Attille

Filmmaker Martina (Judah) Attille is a British citizen and has lived in London since 1961. She graduated in 1983 from Goldsmiths University, London, where she produced her first film, By Any Other Name (1983). On graduation, Attille accepted the offer of a six-month placement with the independent production company, Large Door, through a Channel Four Television trainee scheme and trained with Production Manager Janine Marmot on the second series of Visions, a documentary series about world cinema, produced by John Ellis, Keith Griffiths and Simon Hartog.