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Joseph Lewis, who portrayed “Ghelgath” — The Demon Lord of Ice — copped the King of Carnival King .
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By Azad Ali
Thousands of masqueraders
paraded through the streets of
Trinidad and Tobago during the
two-day festival described as the
“Greatest Show on Earth.”
In total, 76 Mas bands in various
categories were registered to
cross the stage at the Queen’s Park
Savannah, Port of Spain on Carnival
Monday and Tuesday.
The Savannah stage was transformed
into a theatre stage with
grand choreographed performances
by both medium and large
bands with colorful costumes.
In the build up to grand two-day
festival there were various competitions,
including the King and
Queen of the Bands; Kaisorama
competition to crown the Calypso
Monarch and Ex-Tempo King; Fantastic
Friday; the National Panorama
competition and Dimanche
Gras, which this year was a cultural
show. Previously there were the
King and Queen of the Bands competition
and the crowning of the
Calypso Monarch and Ex-Tempo
King in the Dimanche Gras show.
Two relative newcomers were
crowned King and Queen of Carnival
2019 — Joseph Lewis, who portrayed
“Ghelgath” — The Demon
Lord of Ice — copped the King
of Carnival King and the Queen
of Carnival was Shynel Brizan,
who portrayed “Mariella, Shadow
of Consciouness.” In total 10 Kings
and 10 Queens took part in the
finals of the competition.
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Courtney Noel, Marcus Garvey actor,
Ron Bob-Semple, and writer/director
of “See You Yesterday,” Stefon
Bristol. Ron Bobb-Semple
By Tangerine Clarke
Stefon Bristol, writer, director, of “See
You Yesterday,” who proudly said his parents,
Elizabeth and Clinton were from
Georgetown, Guyana, is excited his feature
film, produced by Spike Lee, is set
to be released on movie channel Netflix
soon.
Filmed on location in Brooklyn and
the Bronx, the movie, co-written with
Fredica Bailey, follows two teenage scientific
prodigies from East Flatbush,
Brooklyn, who, bent on predicting a positive
outcome, created a time machine
to roll back the killing of their brother
by a police officer.
In an exclusive interview with Caribbean
Life recently, Bristol thanked
Hollywood movie mogul, Spike Lee,
for producing the flick based on Bristol’s
award-winning thesis at NYU Film
School, to complete his graduate studies
as a director.
This sci-fi script about a kid — who
goes back in time to prevent his drunk
grandfather from committing the
unthinkable act of killing his best friend
while under the influence, was rewritten
after Bristol, was inspired to highlight
the killings of Eric Garner and Mike
Brown by police officers, during a hotbed
of police brutality in 2014.
The short film, won the Martha’s
Vineyard African-American Film Festival
award, the Carl Lerner Award for
a Film with Social Significance from
NYU, and was a finalist in the HBO
Short Film Competition at American
Black Film.
A sci-fi buff by all accounts, Bristol
watched ‘Back to the Future,” and
decided to blend two different genres,
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