“Congratulations. The quality of this year’s submissions ranged from excellent to outstanding. Of the more than 1,400 …. you are among these outstanding contributors.”
— Founder/Director Carlos Torre, Latin & Native American Film Festival
Wow! Humbled and honoured that The MultiMedia Micro Epic of the Anthropocene, will be featured at the Latino & Native American Film Festival (LANAFF). Extended from five to 10 days this year, owing to overwhelming response, the Festival runs online from Earth Day To May Day, April 22 to May 1.
“Congratulations. The quality of this year’s submissions ranged from excellent to outstanding. Of the more than 1,400 …. you are among these outstanding contributors.” states the announcement from LANAFF Founder & Director, Carlos A Torre.
Mother Continent/Madre Continente
In it, I highlight the new creative genre, the MultiMedia Micro Epic, and the broader bio-epic of Mother Continent/ContinenteMadre that complements the first movement, One Night to Bloom, and the soon to be released futuristic lyrical all-encompassing component, To the Anthropocene, An Ode.
Mother Continent, from the Trailer, takes up the challenge of the 2021 Latino & Native American Film Festival (LANAFF), to define: ¿Quién Somos?/Who Are We? to provide artistic healing of the pre and post colonial continental rifts.
It addresses the challenge: As Latinos, we are Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Indigenous, Black, White, Mixed, blended and fractal nations within nations, Americanos, nationalist, assimilated, “hyphenated Americans”, urban, rural, suburban, academics, braceros, scientists, laborers, educators, junkies and PhD’s, invisible, culturally indigestible.
The indigenous people of America are the creators of cities and societies more socially and technologically advanced than that of those who invaded us: astronomers, architects, hunter gatherers, the creators of democracy.
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.
In response, Mother Continent, The MultiMedia Micro Epic of the Anthropocene is a virtual micro epic biopic of the Americas continent in its global contexts, bridging pre and post colonial worlds, seen through the lenses of Trinidad pre-and post-continental separation.
About the MultiMedia Micro Epic Trilogy by Dr Kris Rampersad
The MultiMedia Micro Epic is a new creative genre pioneered by Dr Kris Rampersad. It innovates on the classical epic for new/multimedia. It is represented in an inventive epic triadic frame that ripples into expanding spheres – From the personal biopic, One Night To Bloom outwards through Mother Continent, uniting the ‘Pacific-Atlantic kris-crossings’ of heritage of East & West to encompass Planet Earth and the culminating To The Anthropocene, An Ode that enfolds past and present, science and séance, tradition and technology of it traces the protagonist’s epic journey in search of where knowledge lives, even if we all ceased to be.
Mother Continent/Continente Madre, The Trailer, teases viewers to follow the protagonist through ‘five continents and three realms,’ meandering contortions in her heart’s arteries to piece together the distorted history and heritage of the Americas and the world and unite her multi-rooted/routed Mother Cultures and Mother Continents of East & West, North & South, Island & Continent. Based on real events, it draws from my work with diverse global communities, including indigeneous and new cultural communities of the Americas. It features the music of US/Trinidad & Tobago based Oliver Chapman and Canadian-based Steelpan pioneer Randolph Karamath.
As a sequel-prequel, Mother Continent builds on and expands this new MultiMedia Micro Epic creative genre which I created & developed and which I introduced in One Night To Bloom in the effervescent collision and collusion of mythology & reality, fact, fantasy, fiction, truth & alternative truths, science & seance, history & heritage, tradition & technology collide communicate collude and converge. One Night To Bloom and the pioneering new creative genre was presented to Commonwealth Scholars at the British Council/Commonwealth Scholarship Commission’s International Women’s Day/Commonwealth Day 2021.
LANAFF, in its 11th year, is hosted by the Southern Connecticut State University, organized by Harvard/SCSU Professor Carlos Torre and features films, documentaries, shorts, animation and other artistic manifestations with screenings, panel discussions, and networking events. It aims to counter negative stereotypes by providing opportunities for filmmakers to showcase their diversity and artistry outside of the Hollywood monopoly, while enhancing viewers’ appreciation of the cultural, social, economic and political strengths of Latino and Native American cultures.
Join me as a collaborator, partner, sponsor, or advertiser as we move towards the global release of this innovative new edutainment initiative towards the Post Pandemic Planet!