The trinidad+to­ba­go film fes­ti­val (ttff) is host­ing a movie night on June 7, from 7–9 pm, as part of We­Beat cel­e­bra­tions in St James. The venue is the St James Am­phithe­atre and ad­mis­sion is free. Found­ed in 2006 and pre­sent­ed by Flow, the ttff is an an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tion of the best films from Trinidad & To­ba­go and the Caribbean, the Caribbean Di­as­po­ra, and from Latin Amer­i­can coun­tries in the Caribbean Basin. The movies be­ing shown are Africa Unite, a US-made doc­u­men­tary about a Bob Mar­ley trib­ute con­cert in Ethiopia, and The Sus­pect, a dra­mat­ic short made by a Trinida­di­an di­rec­tor.

Part trib­ute con­cert and part trav­el­ogue, Africa Unite (2008) brings to­geth­er the fam­i­ly of Robert Nes­ta Mar­ley as they cel­e­brate in mu­sic what would have been the reg­gae gi­ant's 60th birth­day. The movie is di­rect­ed by Stephanie Black, and fol­lows three gen­er­a­tions of Mar­leys as they jour­ney to the "fa­ther­land," Ethiopia for the an­nu­al Africa Unite con­cert in Ad­dis Aba­ba. The con­cert fea­tures mu­sic from the younger gen­er­a­tion and rare footage of their leg­endary rel­a­tive in ac­tion, as they pro­mote his vi­sion for a unit­ed Africa.

The Sus­pect, by di­rec­tor Leroy Smart, pre­miered in 2010 at the ttff. The ac­tion takes place on a bus, where a pas­sen­ger be­gins to sus­pect that a crime is about to take place. The ttff re­ceives lead­ing spon­sor­ship from RBC/RBTT and is sup­port­ed by the Trinidad & To­ba­go Film Com­pa­ny, the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny and the Tourism De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion.

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• For more in­for­ma­tion on the ttff night at We­Beat, vis­it http://ttfilm­fes­ti­val.com/what­son.asp