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Row over 'Inside' DVD
Posted: Monday, August 11, 2003
By Terry Joseph, www.trinicenter.com/Terryj
Immediately after the locally produced digital video-disc documentary Inside Trinidad and Tobago Carnival 2K3 qualified for the final of the sixth annual DVD Awards, a squabble has erupted over who should get the credit for the documentary.
The DVD is up for an award in the Best Educational/ Documentary category and by the same opportunity, became eligible for the Viewers Choice award, both of which will be announced at a Hollywood event on August 20.
The debate sprang from a story appearing in yesterday's Express that singularly credited Island Events as producer of the work, which beat tens of thousands of other such products to get into the final.
Speaking for Advance Dynamics Ltd, Willow Works advertising agency's Nylah Ali claimed full credit for its principals, saying Island Events was only hired to market the DVD, adding: "They fell down on the job and the arrangement was squashed."
"Barry McComie of Advance Dynamics is executive producer of Inside Trinidad and Tobago Carnival 2K3," Ali said. "His company financed it exclusively, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on the project. Island events was part of a marketing team but they promised a lot and delivered nothing, so the arrangement crashed."
But Douglas Gordon of Island Events later said the production was released by Mango Juice Interactive Ltd, a company formed with equal subscriptions from Island Events and Advance Dynamics.
"Mango Juice is jointly owned by Barry Mc Comie and myself, Gordon said. "Advance Dynamics produced it but in terms of all the other elements, it is half and half and before now, there has never been any delineation. We're in this project together."
In the Viewers Choice category, the production still requires as many votes as possible, as it is a virtual people's choice system. Among the challenges it will face are documentaries produced by Disney and Motown.
Your vote for the local effort may be cast by logging on to website: http://www.recordingmedia.org/dvd-awards.html or where it says "Cast your Ballot below."
The two-disc DVD set captures the run up to the national festival, including the partying and the fun that climaxes as the parade of the bands on Carnival Monday and Tuesday.
Hosted by Machel Montano, Maxine Williams and Michelle Khan, shooting took place in panyards, calypso tents, at shows and fetes and on Carnival day.
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