Looks Who’s Trending Pioneer New Literary Genre in the news
Dr Kris Rampersad 
Dr Kris Rampersad pioneerin new epic genre featured in the news
Look Who’s Trending!
So energised by the tremendous support and feedback on pioneering a new literary genre, the Multimedia Micro Epic, through my short film One Night to Bloom at Interchange21 hosted by the British Council for the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission. The forum engaged some 800 Commonwealth scholars in closed sessions to present their works and achievements, share and connect, and discuss challenges and solutions. Thanks to all who provided such encouraging studied and thoughtful feedback.
One Night To Bloom as a Multimedia Micro Epic takes a close look at the challenges and opportunities for global development with particular focus on women and girls, marginalised and invisible and underserved communities. It treats with a broad span of themes including intercultural and international relations, relations, culture, heritage, gender, power, privilege, media, travel, health, politics, literature, among others.
It is a close biopic of my life from village to global village, in intersections with media, culture, education and gender, bridging the humanities and sciences, and engagements as an independent multimedia journalist, multicultural educator, multistakeholder facilitator and activist.
It innovates on, adapts and merges traditional form and stylistic elements of the classical epic into new media using tools and techniques of multimedia to draw academia into the arena of pop culture and engage from preschoolers to policymakers.
It signals the many ways new media can be made to accommodate new demands for online exposition as edutainment that combine learning and leisure.
I am applying the innovation in the development and production of other new online materials geared for ages 103 in a range of other genres as fables, fantasy, fiction to documentary.
These include multimedia adaptation of my groundbreaking researched/books, LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction and Finding A Place, expanded international multimedia edition of Landscapes of Fiction, and several surprising new offerings as well.
One Night To Bloom, the Multimedia Micro Epic short film is inspired by Pa’s bedtime stories, and Ma’s struggles and aspirations, aligned to my life and work and interface with a range of global to local communities, intergovernmental policy planning and agenda setting initiatives, education and capacity development, media outreach communications and advocacy across United Nations, Commonwealth, European Union, Inter-American and Caribbean world. It encompasses a panoramic span of themes, issues, events, ideas and people of the Anthropocene – as the current the current epoch of human dominance has been dubbed by scientists. It features music by Oliver Chapman and Randolph Karamath. A public global premiere will be announced shortly.
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