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Bristol Radical Film Festival in Association with UWE Film Studies Reel World Special Free Screening of Stone Street (Elspeth kydd, 2012, Trinidad/UK, 72mins) Sunday 7 April, 12.15pm, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, BS1 5TX Register for your free ticket now at http://stonestreet.eventbrite.co.uk/ At 22 Stone Street in Port of Spain, Trinidad, stands a house, home to the Cherrie family for over 60 years. This absorbing film is an autobiographical portrait of the Cherrie family and its branches in the US, UK and Canada. Mixing home-movie footage, photographs, musical recordings and interviews with a lyrical first-person narration, Stone Street moves beyond a simple record of family life to become a layered exploration of identity, history, race, place and belonging. Elspeth kydd’s experimental documentary films have screened at festivals internationally and on public television in the US. She has taught film studies and documentary practice at universities worldwide (University of Toledo, Ohio USA, University of the West of England, University of the West Indies) and is the author of The Critical Practice of Film. Stone Street premiered at Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, 2012 where it won the award for Cultural Diversity. Elspeth will be joining us via Skype for a Q&A. This screening is hosted by The Bristol Radical Film Festival and Film Studies at The University of the West of England, with special thanks to Watershed Media Centre for supporting this event. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------