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It was at a caribBEING event here in NYC last fall, where I was introduced to Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo's 1979 colorful musical epic film West Indies (read my reactions Here) - a film that I urged a re-release for.  The brainchild of Caribbean-American (Trinidadian) Shelley Vidia Worrell, it was also at caribBEING that Ring di Alarm!, the feature film by the The New Caribbean Cinema Series initiative made its USA premiere, also last fall. But that's just a tiny sample of what the organization has brought to its community, covering just a month or two. And there could be even more, if you support their new...

Tambay spoke very highly of the film he saw at the last caribBeing event a few weeks ago (you might recall his praise for Med Hondo's *forgotten* West Indies Here), so it's with pleasure that I alert you to another upcoming caribBeing event, happening this Saturday, December 1, at TriBeCa Cinemas. Two highly-anticipated films we've profiled on S&A will screen at the 3rd Annual caribBeing event - an event that's subtitled West Indian Edition: 1- Stones In The Sun (or Woch Nan Soley), the USA/Haiti production, which made its world premiere at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in the World Narrative section. Written and directed by...