Mariel Brown
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Mariel Brown is an award-winning director and founder of the creative
and production company Savant. Mariel has written features for various
Caribbean magazines. In particular, she has written about writers and
artists including: Edwidge Danticat and Rachel Manley. In 2007, her
first documentary film, "The Insatiable Season", was awarded the
Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the Trinidad and Tobago
Film Festival. "The Insatiable Season" went on to be screened at the
Caribbean Tales Film Festival and the Harbourfront Festival, both in
Toronto, Canada. Mariel produced, directed and edited the documentary
feature, "The Solitary Alchemist" (a revealing and intimate profile of
Trinidadian jeweller, Barbara Jardine). "The Solitary Alchemist" was
screened at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and was awarded the
jury prize for Best Locally Produced Film. It has also been screened in
Jamaica, at the Best of Caribbean Tales Film Festival in Barbados at
the prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and Real Art Ways
in Hartford Connecticut. Mariel's three-part documentary series on
Trinidad and Tobago's first Prime Minister, Eric Williams, "Inward
Hunger: The Story of Eric Williams" recently won the Best Local Feature
Film jury prize at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, and has been
screened at the Havana Film Festival (Havana, Cuba), the Portobello
Film Festival (London, England), in Kingston, Jamaica; Florida, USA and
Port of Spain, Trinidad.