Echos From The Plantation : an artistic and academic achievement

A poster advertising a screening of Echos From The Plantation in Canada earlier this year

There is a new film currently in circulation in Guyana, which has already found its way further afield, particularly in the USA, and will no doubt go further. This is Echos From The Plantation  by Kishore Suenarine, a Guyanese now resident in America, who has a history in film in Guyana. 

The work describes itself as a docudrama, but has merits and characteristics to be Indian film and even cinema. Although it is not a full-length feature it does have the quality and pretensions for the big screen. Echos From The Plantation was written, directed and produced by Suenarine as his contribution to the observance of the 180th Anniversary of Indian Arrival in Guyana. 

It has already had a number of screenings in Guyana generating a great deal of interest through its promotion by Dr Rosalind October-Edun of SUNY Empire State College in New York.  October-Edun was a leading dancer in Guyana during the early developing years of the National School of Dance and the National Dance Company, and a student of kathak specialist Philip McClintock.