Martina Attille  

Martina Attille is a member of the renowned Sankofa film group of black British filmmakers. She was born in St. Lucia in the Caribbean and has lived in London since 1961. She is a filmmaker “for whom representations of black women remain a central and complex narrative device.” Through films like DREAMING IN RIVERS (1988), she explores the colonial experiences of Caribbean immigrants in Britain. This film’s impressionistic rendering of a mother’s reflections from her deathbed allows Attille to examine generational effects of migration on Caribbean identity and culture. She also directed THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE in 1986. (1/20)