Inward Hunger: The Story of Eric Williams

Director: Mariel Brown 2011, Trinidad + Tobago English Documentary feature / 133 minutes THIS IS A groundbreaking documentary on the life of Dr Eric Williams, the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago. The film follows Williams’s career from professor to politician, right up to his disturbing death. Including interviews with family members and former colleagues, Inward Hunger shows Williams’s strengths and weaknesses, and also shows him as a man of great humour and devoted friendships, a man of loneliness and longing – in short, a fellow human being. Sun 23 Sept, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS, Q&A Sat 29 Sept, 8.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago Mon 01 Oct, 8.30pm, MovieTowne POS