The Bahamian island of Inagua is home to more than 60,000 West Indian flamingos, making it the world's largest single repository of the species and a southern tip paradise where the ratio of birds to humans stands at 61:1. So it makes perfect sense that for a short film recently shot there, the POV was that of a puppet flamingo brought to life for director Nimer Rashed by local fisherman Kervin Hanchell and charmingly voiced by youngster Kevin Herrera.
The telescoped story of Derek: The Last Flamingo's experiences among humans recently took second prize in the contest responsible for its creation, the Bahamas 14 Island Films Challenge. London-based Rashed appears to be a versatile up-and-comer, having started his career with a Miramax Films day job and seen his non-fiction story "Albert Finney's Smile" published in the 2007 Penguin anthology There to Here.
[Derek: The Last Flamingo]
Saturday, May 8, 2010
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