Awarded films
Awarded Film – Man of the Soil
This short documentary film is set on the diminutive Caribbean island of Dominica.
It is the portrait of a man called Jerry Maka West. He is a simple man, a Nom Tèw, creole for a man of the soil.
Juxtaposed to the hustle and bustle of city life, Jerry works his garden in the island’s lush interior, his Zion, growing and preparing his food just as his grandparents once taught him. The complexities of the modern world pass him by as he skips in and out of it, circling around it, never really being drawn into it, prefering instead to live close to nature, and to work hard putting just as much in as he takes out. In harmony with a living earth, a nature island, Jerry Maka West lives the kind of life most of his contemporaries have forsaken, yet many would no doubt envy in a world that has become a confusion of questionable priorities and trivia.
Type – Short documentary
Media – HD Video – Canon 5D Mark II – Canon lenses
Director/D.O.P/Editor – Pierre Deschamps
Writer/First AD – Jym Renaut
Producer – Etta Deschamps
Country – Commonwealth of Dominica
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