The 592 48HR FILM CHALLENGE, is a platform for Guyanese filmmakers, content creators and students to find, develop, and share their voices and stories, and is geared toward encouraging creatives to choose visual storytelling as their medium.
Judges: Romola Lucas / Alysia Christiani / Melissa Roberts / Nicole Hector
SYNOPSIS: A young father struggles to find a way back home to his family amidst closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guyana | 2020 | 5:00 mins
A Film by: Dwanye Jordan & Keon Hector
ABOUT DWAYNE JORDAN
Dwayne Jordan, is a filmmaker based in Georgetown, Guyana. He works full-time as a photographer/videographer, where he mainly does photoshoots and wedding films. He studied photography at the School of Nations and is self-taught as a videographer. He co-directed “Gypsy,” his first short film and it won the awards for Best Film (both by the Jury and Audience), Best Sound, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. Dwayne enjoys videography and hopes to one day further his studies in Cinematography, and to direct his first feature-length film, in Guyana.
SYNOPSIS: A news anchor reports that several people have gone missing, insinuating that these people have been kidnapped, and hinted at the work of a possible serial kidnapper in the Georgetown area. After she reports this news, she rushes home and is distraught by the missing persons and the usual procedures of life in a pandemic. Suddenly, she hears a noise that frightens her and checks to see what occurred. Unfortunately, the people that were missing were closer than many thought.
Guyana | 2020 | 5:00 mins
Director: Cordell McClure
Producer: The McClure
Writer: Kadija McClure
Cinematographer: Cordell McClure
Editor: Thalissa McClure
ABOUT CORDELL MCCLURE
Cordell McClure has more than 23 years of experience in media. He holds a Bachelors (Cum Laude) in Mass Communication from the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAAATT) and a Masters in Communication from the Arizona State University (ASU).
He began his career as a technical operator at the Guyana Television Broadcasting Network (now NCN). From 2005-2008, he managed Tobago Channel 5. Cordell later established his own video production company and served as a news correspondent.
In 2012, he launched the first 24-hour Christian Television Channel in Tobago, the Tobago Inspirational Network (tin137.com) Cordell is active in the field of communication and recently started working on films. He earned the best director award for his role in “The Cut” which was the films film he actually completed. He returns as camera/director of Manic, an entry in the 202, 592 48hour Film Challenge. Cordell plans to begin working on a feature film very soon.
SYNOPSIS: A University student navigates her seemingly infinite boredom, and her lack of motivation to do ‘schoolwork’ while on lockdown in her dorm room, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guyana | 2020 | 5:00 mins
A Film by: Vishani Ragobeer
ABOUT VISHANI RAGOBEER
Vishani Ragobeer is a 20-year-old Guyanese Freelance Journalist, currently studying at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine campus. While her professional and academic pursuits are grounded in writing, she has a keen interest in learning how to tell stories through other multimedia platforms. Vishani is currently Guyana’s Young Journalist of the Year.
SYNOPSIS: A young interracial couple playfully discharges the disapproval of a nosy citizen.
Guyana | 2019 | 4:59 mins
Director: Jamal La Rose
Producer: Jamal La Rose
Writer: Jamal La Rose
Cinematographer: Brian Gomes
Editor: Brian Gomes
Cast: Vanya Simone Persaud / Sean Budnah / Paul Budnah / Melika Edmonds / Kimberly Fernandes / Jamal La Rose / Brian Gomes
Producer Contact info: thefutureoscarwiner28@gmail.com / 592-660-6627
ABOUT JAMAL LA ROSE
Jamal La Rose is an award-winning Guyanese stage actor. He is also a singer, writer, poet and now filmmaker whose passion for the creative world initially surfaced while attending St. Joseph High School and resurfaced during the acting workshops leading up to Carifesta X, 2008. He’s been hooked ever since.
He holds an LL.B., magna cum laude, from the University of Guyana and currently works as a Policy Developer. He wrote, directed and produced his debut film “Apan Jaat: Seriously?” for the inaugural 592 48HR Film Challenge along with the rest of his team: Film Fanatics!
SYNOPSIS: From as long as time, persons have been living on the streets, some of them as a result of mental health and others because they are not welcomed at home by relatives after spending times in prison or having been deported. The film shares the stories of five people living on the streets of Georgetown.
Guyana | 2019 | 5 mins
Director: Michael McGarrell
Cinematographers: Danella Clemment and Meshach Atkinson
Contact: michaeljmcgarrell@hotmail.com | Skype: anjosilencio | Phone +592 673 7480
ABOUT MICHAEL MCGARRELL
Michael Mc Garrell is an indigenous person of the Patamona nation. He works to see that the basic human rights of peoples are protected and respected. Most of his work is around indigenous peoples. Because of the nature of his work he does films as a way of telling the stories of Indigenous peoples.
SYNOPSIS: After receiving an initial cut on his upper torso, Geof manages to escape a savage group. He flees the angry, weapon-wielding group, but his quest for freedom is short-lived.
Guyana | 2019 | 5 mins
Director: Cordell McClure
Producer: Thalissa McClure
Camera: Kadija McClure
Editors: Cordell McClure, Thalissa McClure
Audio: Corissa McClure
Driver: Jason Leitch
Cast: Geoffrey La Rose / Natoya Leitch / Dale Edwards / Kenneth Braitwaite / Akeem Thornhill
Production Company: GMedia
ABOUT CORDELL MCCLURE
Cordell McClure has more than 22 years of experience in the media. He began his career as a technical operator at the Guyana Television Broadcasting Network (now NCN). From 2005-2008, he managed Tobago Channel 5 (a television station based in Tobago). He later established his own video production company and served as a news correspondent.
In 2012, he launched the first 24-hour Christian Television Channel in Tobago, the Tobago Inspirational Network (tin137.com). He is active in the field of communications and recently started working on films. “The Cut,” is the first film he actually completed, but he has many more planned.
SYNOPSIS: One night, after eating a full plate of “Cookup,” for dinner, a girl heads to bed while chatting on her phone. What happens next leaves one to wonder if what happens in the dark truly comes to light.
Guyana | 2019 | 5 mins
Director: Andrea Bryan-Garner
Writer, Second Camera, Editor: Andrea Bryan-Garner
Assistant Director: Janiel Lee
Cinematographer: Patrick Ramsammy
Cast: Nathaya Whaul
Contact: andreabryan@live.com / (592) 614-1414
ABOUT ANDREA BRYAN-GARNER
At 37, Andrea Bryan-Garner has worked in the Guyanese media for the past 21 years with a focus on Television Production. Another short ‘Street Life’ was edited by her during the Ohio University/University of Guyana workshop and she is the Coordinator of an award winning youth and multimedia advocacy NGO – Youth Media Guyana. Andrea is now the Program Developer with responsibility for Programming at Guyana’s national radio and television station, the National Communication Network Inc. (NCN) and hopes to create a larger platform for the creative arts through television, radio and film.
SYNOPSIS: A young creator struggles to complete a project. Through his attempts at perseverance, he learns it may sometimes be necessary to take a break or a few steps back, in order to move forward.
Guyana | 2019 | 5 mins
Crew: Akeem Kirton and Dandre Kirton
Production Company: Creatives Alpha
DANDRE KIRTON
SYNOPSIS: A young man is mourning the death of his grandmother, until he makes a “discovery,” in a book she left behind.
Guyana | 2019 | 4 mins
Directors: Keon Hector and Dwayne Jordan
Cinematographer: Keon Hector
Editors: Dwayne Jordan and Keon Hector
Sound Engineer: Dwayne Jordan
Writer: Travis Rawlins
Cast: Travis Rawlins
Contact: jaystudioslive@gmail.com and keonhector60@gmail.com
ABOUT DWAYNE JORDAN
Dwayne Jordan, is a beginner filmmaker based in Georgetown, Guyana. He works full-time as a photographer/videographer, where he mainly does photoshoots and wedding films. He studied photography at the School of Nations and is self-taught as a videographer. He co-directed “Gypsy,” his first short film and it won the awards for Best Film (both by the Jury and Audience), Best Sound, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. Dwayne enjoys videography and hopes to one day further his studies in Cinematography, and to direct his first feature length film, in Guyana.
KEON HECTOR
SYNOPSIS: A young girl eagerly anticipates meeting the man of her dreams.
Guyana | 2019 | 5 mins
Director/Writer/Producer: Russel Lancaster
Camera/Sound/Editor: Osbourne Pryce
Cast: O’Neilka Bacchus / Kemo Cort / La Tisha DaSilva / Nelan Benjamin
Production Company: Team 360 Films
RUSSEL LANCASTER
SYNOPSIS: A visual reflection on exactly where your enemy really resides.
Guyana | 2019 | 5 mins
Director/Writer: Grace Hutson
Music: Guava Productions / Ronelsa Christian
Cast: Onix Duncan, Sasha Williams, Grace Hutson
Production Company: Rajk_productions
I am a 21 year old Marketing Assistant at Kronoco Saftey Solutions. I am also a poet, songwriter, graphic designer, blogger, model and SRHR advocate. “I always believe indoing it all while I still have life. It’s not about money or reputation, but being a vessel for inspiration.” My alter ego is “The Olive” – a reminder to maintain resiliency.
The Challenge was presented by Bent Street Films, in partnership with the Timehri Film Festival, and was sponsored by KFC Guyana
