The Hummingbird Tree    Part 3 - (1992)
Channel: Visual Art and Production
Date: 2021-08-08

A BBC film based on the novel The Humming-Bird Tree by Ian McDonald and shot on location in Trinidad.  
Quite a few of our local actors and production personnel were involved in producing this film including Christine Johnson, Cliff and Liz Seedansingh, and Karen Martinez...

The story is about preadolescence growing up in the colonial Trinidad society during the time period of post-slavery and indentureship.  It depicts the relationship between Caucasians and East Indians, and how the colonial value system (based on racism, bigotry, and discrimination) is embedded into the mindset of the future generation.