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MOVIE STRIP
NANA's Paradise
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On the evening of December 25, 2008, writer, film director and producer, MATHURIN EMMANUEL, present-ed movie-goers of her homeland, ST. LUCIA, with an Xmas treat by the launching of her new full-length movie, NA-NA's PARADISE: the surrealism tale of a young man overcoming extreme poverty, a dys-functional home, peer pressure, and death in his family to embark on an epic journey that takes him to England on an island scholarship. There, he overcomes cultural shock, the bitter London cold and homesickness to return home triumphantly, and do right by his mother; NANA who, in spite of her state of poverty, the turbulence of spousal abuse and infidelity, she was single-handedly responsible for holding that family together.
OWEN, played by KEDDY EMMANUEL, is portrayed as a stead-fast young man who,
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without the help received from various quarters, would not have overcome the many obstacles he encounters along the way.
There was his mother, NANA: loving, encou-raging, and disciplining her children, doing her best to keep starvation at bay. There was his secondary school teach-er who, despite the odds he faced, never doubted his abilities, nor lost faith in him. There was his school mate and best
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friend who, overlooking his poverty and unpop-ularity, stood up for him, and shared her school books with him when he couldn't afford any. And, there was his uncle who, back in St. Lucia, shielded him from his father's physical abuse and, in England, pro-vided him a home-away-from-home.
Performances by Eli Kelvin Peters, Rebecca Chitolie, Shannice Louis and Nicole Augustin --- in their roles as the
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