Christopher Laird

Christopher Laird
© TTFF 2013
Film director, Producer
Principal country concerned : Column : Music, Theater, Cinema/tv, Dance

Christopher Laird, has been a teacher, published the arts journal Kairi and ran a theatre in Port of Spain during the 1970s. He has produced over 300 documentaries, dramas and other video productions with Banyan Ltd. over the past 30 years garnering a score of national, regional and international awards.

He has overseen the establishment of what is arguably the world's largest collection of Caribbean culture on video in the Caribbean Film and Video Archive. He is now CEO of Gayelle: The Channel, the region's first all Caribbean free to air television station which he co founded with Errol Fabien in 2003. In 2009 Christopher was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West Indies.

Christopher Laird has produced over 300 documentaries, dramas and other video productions with the pioneering Banyan Limited over the past 35 years, garnering multiple awards. In 2003, he co-founded the region's first all-Caribbean television station, Gayelle. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company.

Source:
www.ttfilmfestival.com/film-synopsis/no-bois-man-no-fraid/

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