Mariel Brown

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.