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Story of Panist, Journalist and Filmmaker Dalton Narine - as a Vietnam Vet - featured on PBS's “The Vietnam War” film website

Dalton Narine is a Vietnam vet whose story is featured on “The Vietnam War” film website. “The Vietnam War,” a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick premieres on PBS on Sunday September 17 at 8/7c

Pictured right -

Dalton Narine on the way to Vietnam aft

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To Be A Renegade, a documentary directed by film-maker James O'Connor

Trinidad Express Editorial

NOW nearing the end of its annual two-week run, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2017 has once again brought to light more than 100 fabulous works of the creativity and the artistry of Caribbean peoples on screen, dem

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Hearts of Steel the film wins Toronto Short Film Award

Hearts of Steel is a documentary film that follows a group of Toronto teenagers a they prepare and practise rigorously for a musical competition for steel bands. Along the way they learn leadership, commitment, trust, multi-cultural respect and the

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‘PAN! Our Musical Odyssey’ will make Silver Theatre pulsate

Washington Post

Washington, DC, USA - An enormous poster of the movie “Casablanca” looms over a desk as film producers Kim Johnson and Jean Michel Gilbert speak, via Skype, from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. The poster does not suggest any pa

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‘And Great Showers of Tears Came Down’ up for Awards

Global - “And Great Showers of Tears Came Down,” a short film produced and directed by award-winning “MasMan” filmmaker Dalton Narine, was selected by Creative Arts Film Festival, an online platform that is currently showcasing films of merit through

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PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2014 - from a Steelband Perspective

Global - So what’s New and Great at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2014 currently on at New York’s Jacob Javits Center - from a Pan Perspective?

....We could go on and on about the latest and greatest products. That would serve our readers no good. Too much

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Celebrating the journey of steelpan - 'Pan! Our Music Odyssey' movie premiere

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Documentary, Pan! Our Music Odyssey opens T+T Film Festival at Globe 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  The Globe Cinema came alive and was packed to capacity last Tuesday evening, as specially-invited guests from all walks of l

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Steelpan docudrama to open film festival

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan! Our Music Odyssey, a docudrama about the steelpan, will have its world premiere when it opens the ninth edition of the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) on Tuesday September 16.

The film,

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Pan and Film Lovers Unite!

The producers of Pan! Our Music Odyssey have been creating recent waves on social media. They have started the first ever publically funded project in Trinidad and Tobago on popular international crowd funding site Indiegogo.

 

Although nearly comple

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The Saga of ROYCROSSE, Steelpan musician, composer, artist and more - A tribute to my assistant producer

by Dalton Narine

Global -  Truth be told, the history of roycrosse very well authenticates the audacity of death.

On his infantry march through life, the renaissance artist left humanity behind on February 20, 2014, shrugging off cancer that ransack

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Revisited -- Veteran Pan Men Set Sights on Anti-War Short Film

Global - That unforgettable sight—for those who have been to “the front,”—of the battery being poured over in preparation for firing, is the opening salvo of insight into the short documentary about War and Peace, co-produced by Roycrosse (pictured,

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Revisited - The Artistry of roycrosse and Dalton Narine: When Two Pan “Vets” Meet

Creative Co-Production births
“And Great Showers Of Tears Came Down”

Global - It is usually said that opposites attract; however this is a case where like minds meet. At this juncture - those of roycrosse, and Dalton Narine. “roycrosse” - this is i

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Pan! - T&T film history in the making

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Khara Persad:

“Picture is up!”
“Quiet on set!”
“Ok guys, that’s a cut!”

The assistant director meant business when he warned potential noisemakers and extras to keep quiet on the set of Pan! A Modern Odyssey, as cast and cr

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Award-winning Filmmakers raising funds to tell the history and influence of the Steelpan

Award-winning Filmmakers raising funds to tell the history and influence of the Steelpan

Los Angeles - "They didn't care. A steelband man, you have sticks in your pockets; you would be the subject of police harassment." That is the opening line

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Carnival 1975 - Trinidad and Tobago - By Nick DeWolf Photo Archive

port of spain, trinidad
february 1975

trinidad carnival

carib tokyo, steel drum orchestra
parade of bands, panorama 1975
queen's park savannah

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WST Special - Bertie Marshall - The Steel Pan Visionary - The Film - Revisted

Bertie Marshall - The Steel Pan Visionary - The Film

Global - Steelpan pioneer and visionary Bertie Marshall is the subject of this film production by film maker, producer, director, pan man and steelpan historian Dalton Narine. This is a fifty-minute

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Steelpan musician & composer Sune Borregaard speaks on film project

Denmark - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks (WST), Danish recording/artist/panist/arranger/composer Sune Borregaard speaks on the Hollywood film “Finder of Lost Children” which features his original pan score. Sune shares how he became

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