Thursday 14th February 2013  12:00 PM

4th Annual Sidney Poitier Film Festival

OPENS TONIGHT:
February 14 - 17th, 2013
The College of The Bahamas Harry C. Moore Library

12PM Sugar Cane Alley
Native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a young boy learning to reconcile the value of his shanty-town roots with the education opportunities that beckon him to the big city.

2PM Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak in the West Indies, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

4 PM Live and let Die
007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.

6 PM Wide Sargasso Sea
Jane Eyre?s Mrs. Rochester recalls how she met her future husband and eventually came to be imprisoned in the attic at Thornfield Hall.

8PM To Sir, With Love
Idealistic engineer-trainee teaches a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

The College of The Bahamas presents the 4th Annual Sidney Poitier Film Festival from February 14 - 17th, 2013. Every part of the Festival is free and completely open to the public.

There will also be a Forum and Roundtable entitled "The Future of Film in The Bahamas" hosted by COB's School of English on Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 5pm at COB. Jasper Haeward, Stephen Hanna, Travon Patton & Kareem Mortimer will comprise the roundtable. The roundtable will feature presentations as well as an ask and answer period with the audience.

The Sidney Poitier Film Festival was established by the School of English Studies at The College of The Bahamas as a means of honoring the achievements of a great Bahamian actor and filmmaker, Sidney Poitier. Our aim is to preserve his legacy for future generations of Bahamians.

All films are screened free to the public and are viewed at The College of The Bahamas Nassau Campus, Oakes Field.

Click HERE to view full film schedule. Or call COB's School of English at (242) 302 4381.

Click HERE to view Roundtable's Facebook Event page.