August 2015 - Activities at Nora's Cottage
This year FOWIC activities were moved to a tiny cottage in
Woburn, St. Georges, Grenada because our regular location, the Woburn
Methodist School, is under re-construction. Thirty-five children crammed
into the tiny cottage to watch the Academy Award winning film Pelle the Conqueror and to
participate in activities and create art. This year's film Pelle the Conqueror is the
story of the epic journey of a father and son who leave their native Sweden to
try to find a better life in Denmark. The children learned to make cinnamon
bread; tie-dyed t-shirts, painted each other's faces and reviewed their
writings from the 2014 Courage Project.
August 2012 - 1st Annual FOWIC Int'l Children's Film Festival
What does it take to hold a film festival at a village school in Grenada?
Borrowed equipment, white bed sheets and a dream.
My dear friend, Carolyn, asked me recently what it took to put on a “film festival” in Grenada. First, notice the quotation marks around the words film festival! In our suitcases, along with our swimsuits, insect repellent, and sunglasses, we bought a DVD/Receiver combo, projector, speakers, and movies purchased from Amazon.
The challenges begun the moment we buckled our seat belts on the plane in San Francisco. We remained grounded for long after we should have been in the air. That of course made us late for our connecting flight from Miami to Grenada. Loaded down with backpacks, Obi, Obinna and I dashed through the Miami airport. Obinna falling face first a couple of times. We arrived panting to our plane. For some reason, the flight attendant said, the captain wanted to wait for you three.
This was the beginning of many challenges. With borrowed equipment – we’d burnt out our DVD/receiver combo during the tech scout – white bed sheets, thumb tacks and a dream, we hosted the first annual Friends of West Indian Children International Film Festival.
Thank you for everything you’ve done to make this happen. We used your donations to bring school and art suppliers, films, and fun to 90 children.
Stay tuned for more about FOWIC. We're working on a video of the event and planning our next trip.
What does it take to hold a film festival at a village school in Grenada?
Borrowed equipment, white bed sheets and a dream.
My dear friend, Carolyn, asked me recently what it took to put on a “film festival” in Grenada. First, notice the quotation marks around the words film festival! In our suitcases, along with our swimsuits, insect repellent, and sunglasses, we bought a DVD/Receiver combo, projector, speakers, and movies purchased from Amazon.
The challenges begun the moment we buckled our seat belts on the plane in San Francisco. We remained grounded for long after we should have been in the air. That of course made us late for our connecting flight from Miami to Grenada. Loaded down with backpacks, Obi, Obinna and I dashed through the Miami airport. Obinna falling face first a couple of times. We arrived panting to our plane. For some reason, the flight attendant said, the captain wanted to wait for you three.
This was the beginning of many challenges. With borrowed equipment – we’d burnt out our DVD/receiver combo during the tech scout – white bed sheets, thumb tacks and a dream, we hosted the first annual Friends of West Indian Children International Film Festival.
Thank you for everything you’ve done to make this happen. We used your donations to bring school and art suppliers, films, and fun to 90 children.
Stay tuned for more about FOWIC. We're working on a video of the event and planning our next trip.