The director and writer of Hit For Six!, the Caribbean film currently making the regional rounds, shared her knowledge at a film workshop yesterday.

Alison Saunders-Franklyn was one of three film makers who conducted a workshop as a lead up to the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2007, and the workshop was entitled 'From Concept to Completion & Beyond: Film Financing, Marketing, Distribution'. The other workshop presenters were Nicholas Luesue and Francis Escayg.

The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2007, 'A celebration of the best films from and about the Caribbean and its Diaspora', begins on September 19th and runs until October 27th.

The Hit For Six! director gave a synopsis of her contribution to the workshop: "I shared with the workshop participants how to overcome the challenges of getting a feature film financed, produced and distributed." She added that the workshop provided the producers of Hit For Six! with an opportunity to achieve one of its objectives - to use the experience of producing a film as a developmental tool for the film industry.

Hit For Six! was launched in Barbados during a red carpet premiere on April 18 and premiered in Jamaica on July 9. After the Antigua showing on September 21, the film will premiere in Trinidad on October 8, and will be released next in St. Lucia and St. Vincent before going to other territories.

The Film Festival is being promoted as a forum for "award winning feature films, documentaries, shorts, animations, training workshops with international specialists, a cinema caravan, lectures", and according to Festival Director, Dr. Bruce Paddington "we are establishing the premiere film festival in the Caribbean."

Talent from Trinidad & Tobago along with new and classic work from the French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean will be included in the festival which will feature screenings such as Cousines by Haitian Director Richard Senecal; A Winter Tale by Toronto-based Trinidadian filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon; student films from UWI and the MovieTowne Schools Short Film Competition; and the ground-breaking work of the late director Hugh Robertson.