Independent film maker

Independent film maker residing in Trinidad & Tobago and has worked with an array of local media agencies producing cultural interest television programmes. 

She has also produced and directed 5 independent short films analysing multicultural patterns in T&T society, exploring the diversity which exists. 

Educated at Boston University and Goldsmiths College, London she as received a BA in TV and Film Production and an MA in Documentary Film Making.

She is currently looking for finishing funds for her most recent documentary Upside Down that explores the history of Dragon/ Devil Mas. 

Her work for the past 18 years has been focused on documenting aspects of Caribbean culture by exploring multiple traditions and patterns of life to gain an understanding of the nuanced customs that reflect an interweaving of philosophies of the many ethnicities that contributed to the development of Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean.
A sense of timelessness is felt, and a feeling that the stories told have been going on forever, and are now unearthed and told for the 1st time.

Upside Down, her most recent and unfinished documentary uses archival footage and photographs, the style is observational- filming workshops, mas camps and staged performances allowing the practitioners of the art form to tell a story waiting to be told for over 200 years.

At Sea, her 1st documentary, uses stream of consciousness narrative to compare the techniques used by artisanal fishermen to cultural and societal aspects or patterns. It documents a way of existence that seems timeless, handed down through the generations. Extreme close up, quick cuts with a monotone dialogue makes the viewer comfortable with the idea and imagery of death while addressing uncomfortable issues in life.

A focus has been on salvage stories, that are not part of our remembered Caribbean collective consciousness. Unearthing important historical facts, that are to date relatively unknown. In Banwari Man and the Canoe Makers the interview with Peter Harris, head of the excavation team in Trinidad in 1971, is placed in front of a watery background to suggest the importance of the canoe to the 1st peoples and the little known story of the seminal find of a full human skeleton indicating the earliest dates of human settlement in the Caribbean.

Plantlore also uses the technique of green screen with larger than life local herbal plants in the background to highlight their importance. It highlights the untapped capacity and potential of Caribbean herbal traditions, the documentary interweaves interviews with academics to explore the benefits of traditional tropical medicinal plants as a subversive alternative conventional methods.

Her documentaries presents glimpses into the history and diversity of contributing cultures to the region, offering an understanding of what it is to be authentically of the Caribbean.