St. Lucian award-winning film producer, Mathurine Emmanuel, is set to embark on a Caribbean Film Export Tour during March and April.

The tour will include stops on several islands including Dominica, Grenada, Antigua and St. Vincent. On these islands, Emmanuel will promote and host the screening of her movies, secure retail outlets and distributers, and network with film producers, and other players in the film industry.

She is doing it with the support of Iyanola Pictures – the entity under which Emmanuel produces and markets her films. She anticipates this will expand her film enterprise.

Follow the links to view the trailers of Mathurine’s movies: http://youtu.be/NYERiAKkOOo, http://youtu.be/YY967eEqR1k

and http://youtu.be/4buneamIwOU

Below is a description of Mathurine’s films.

Ribbons of Blue

Ribbons of Blue, is a ground breaking movie in which multi-talented Mathurine Emmanuel (actress, director, screenwriter) delivers a riveting performance in her portrayal of a single mother’s struggles and sacrifices to raise an ungrateful daughter who is ashamed of her mother’s humble status. Regardless, the mother uses her lifetime savings to send her daughter overseas to school. The movie reaches a high point when shamed and unable to complete her education, the daughter hits rock bottom and is forced to return home (in the manner of the Prodigal Son) to her longsuffering mother’s welcoming arms.

Troubled Waters

Responding to all the fanfare, public adulation and awards that Ribbons of Blue attracted, Mathurine Emmanuel said that the public has seen nothing yet because then her next movie, Troubled Waters, would put Ribbons of Blue to shame. Well, while the critics would agree that Ribbons of Blue is destined to become a classic, they may also agree that the film maker’s assertion about her third movie was no idle boast.

Nana’s Paradise

In Nana’s Paradise, a young man overcomes extreme poverty, a dysfunctional home, peer ridicule, and death in his family to embark on an epic journey that takes him to England on an island scholarship. There he overcomes cultural shock, the bitter London cold and homesickness to return home triumphantly and do right by his mother, Nana, who, facing desperate poverty, spousal abuse and infidelity, was singlehandedly responsible for holding her family together.