MultiMedia MicroEpic Scores HaTTrick in Global Film Fests

MultiMedia MicroEpic Scores HaTTrick among Global Film Fests.

MultiMedia Micro Epic Scores Hattrick ++

The new creative genre, The Multimedia Micro Epic, has scored a hat-trick++ among international Film Festivals. On its fifth selection (hence hattrick++), it makes my work among the most-requested, according to the platform. To date it has been selected to participate in a UK-based international and three Latin American film festivals.

The feature pitches includes previews of the pilots of the Multimedia Microepic Biopic, One Night to Bloom and MotherContinent, a creative Clash of Civilisations. Distinctive musical rhythms of the Continent, steelpan renditions of Canadian-Trinidadian Randolph Karamath and the unique soul-jazz of American-Trinidadian Oliver Chapman frame the Epic.

MotherContinent, the ‘middle earth’ component of the triadic MultiMedia MicroEpic form features mDNA – Mothers, Motherlands, MotherCultures. and DoTTi – the Island-Continent.

Another component of the triadic epic form, Ode to the Anthropocene, unfolds, in heroic couplets, the evolution of the biocultural diversity of our civilisation, to be released in a date to be announced.

In its attempt at not only developing a new idiom to bridge academia and entertainment as ‘edutainment’ through short form film and its easy adaptability to social media, the Multimedia Micro Epic’s appeal is broadbased, as was demonstrated when it was introduced at InterChange 21, the  Commonwealth Scholarship Commission annual gathering of scholars, hosted by the British Council. It has since also been featured, and was among the top ten (#8) in its category at the online UK-based First Time Filmmakers’ Sessions, which targets new voices in the indie (independent film) world.

Breaking Barriers between Latin America and Caribbean

The particular appeal of the MultiMedia Micro Epic to the Latin America and the Caribbean is its confrontation with on-going stereotypical representations of the region through media and bridging the divides that are not only geographical but also at the heart of political, cultural, historical, institutional, linguistic and other artificial dividends, in a film form designed for short form social/new multimedia.

HaTTrick with Latin America and Caribbean Festival Selectors

Three Latin American Festivals has selected its preview.

The Peruvian based, Videotitlán Video Festival was attracted to the:

audiovisual phrases that best describe the current situation of this global uprising by citizens of the south of the American continent to return to the north and rediscover our mutilated roots … in pieces that dialogue with each other, weaving a discourse and strengthening a contemporary portrait of what is happening in the countries of Central and South America.

Among the international selections for the Argentinian-based Parana International Independent Film Festival, the MultiMedia Micro Epic was the sole selection from the English-speaking Caribbean and the one of two from the Caribbean islands – the other being from Cuba. The festival’s focus is on contribution to development of culture and the film industry. It is hosted by Grupo Transmedia Argentina, and the International Center for Research in Film and Video Experimental Art  

Further, the Multimedia MicroEpic was shortlisted from more than 1400 entries to the Latino and Native American Film Festival’s where the focus is on artistic manifestations by or about Latinos and Native Americans ‘outside of the Hollywood monopoly’ through its 2021 focus ¿Quién Somos? /Who Are We?

You may think you know us, but you have no idea. What’s more, often we don’t even know ourselves … the depth and the Heights that we are.

As Latinos, we are Jewish; we are Christian; we are Buddhist; we are Muslim; we are Indigenous; we are Black; we are White; we are Mixed; we are blended; we are Argentine, we are Boricuas, Dominicans, Colombian, Venezuelan, Mexican, Paraguayan, Chileans, Bolivian, Ecuadorian, Peruvians, fractal nations within nations, Pochos, Chicanos, Hispanos, Hispanics, Latino, LatinX, Latinas, Latines, “Latin American citizens”, … we are Americanos, nationalist, assimilated, “hyphenated Americans”, urban, rural, suburban, academics, braceros, scientists, laborers, educators, “junkies and PhD’s”, invisible, “Culturally Indigestible”.

Excursion into Unexplored Complexities

The unfolding MultiMedia MicroEpic accommodates an excursion into the yet unexplored complexities of not just the region but our civilisation and this epoch, inviting ‘us’ to cast beyond the ‘New World’ fixation of the colonial-centric chorus that characterises the vision of the region, to embrace and accommodate the antiquity and multitude of dichotomies. That ‘us’ includes creators, producers, directors, writers, educators, learners and students – viewers all. It encourage this inclusive approach in the global discourse of civilisations explored both thematically and through technique.

Edutainment Genre in response to Pandemic Panic

That Covid-19 is challenging not just the media and education, but all sectors to engage with the array of communication tools and technologies, the MultiMedia Micro Epic as a form takes up the challenge to educators and institutions in all sectors to desist from dumbing down of education as has occurred in the Pandemic Panic.

It goes beyond the instructional videos and catoonistic caricaturing to embrace entertainment as a valid vehicle for education, expanding the possibilities for education and entertainment sectors in using short – and long form – new, conventional and traditional media for formal and non formal exposition.

The MultiMedia Micro epic bridges the dichotomous media and academic worlds as an edutainment medium that challenges both academia and the movie industry to accommodate the need for greater innovation to meet challenges for creative multimedia representations of the diverse knowledge streams and strands of the world.

Stay tuned to new revelations of the Caribbean in the sea of films and why regional institutions now sparked to take notice of what goes on behind the camera, are somewhat off-focus.

Coming Soon – Sneak Preview:

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It is resurrected from one of my Old Colonial Tales of the Devil’s Woodyard and the missing angle of the triadic MultiMedia MicroEpic, To The Anthropocene, An Ode.

Dr Kris Rampersad is an award-winning journalist and certified National Geographic and UNESCO heritage educator/facilitator with a PhD in Literature.  

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