It was history in the making last evening as actors and actresses (famous and up and coming); film directors, singers, dancers, writers, coreographers, mainstream and community media and more packed the British Museum for the anticipated London Red Carpet Premiere of ‘HOME AGAIN’ the movie. One person told CaribDirect, ‘I believe everybody who’s anybody in British showbiz is here tonight’.
The award-winning, multiple award-nominated dramatic feature film, HOME AGAIN is essentially a Canadian film produced and directed by multiple award-winning team Jennifer Holness (Producer-Writer) and Sudz Sutherland (Director), alongside Producer, Don Carmody (Academy Award for Chicago) and Lisa Wickham Supervising Producer/Line Producer (TT).
The event which was a resounding success as actresses CCH Pounder (The Shield, Avatar, Bagdad Cafe, Sons of Anarchy, Mortal Instruments) and Tatyana Ali of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, who both starred in Home Again arrived in fine style and graced the red carpet with elegance.
His Excellency Garvin Nicholas, High Commissioner to the UK for Trinidad and Tobago delivered greetings and congratulations in his usual calm cool and collected style. He remarked how immensely proud he was that the film’s supervising producer is Trinidadian and that the film was shot, in large part, in Trinidad and Tobago.
Home Again tells the story of three young people, deported from England, Canada and the US to Jamaica and how they survive (or don’t) in a land that is completely unfamiliar to them. It was a gripping drama with all the elements that make a film worth watching such as suspense, love, humour, realism and currency.
The question and answer session revealed that this situation with western countries ridding themselves of delinquent migrants through deportation, is not unique to Jamaica and that immigrants resident in the UK, Canada and the United States should make a concerted effort to regularise their status and that of their offspring to become citizens to avoid unfair deportation that, in some cases can be considered a death sentence.
