“Unfinished Sentences: The Inheritance of Loss”
Caribbean Beat, March/ April 2019
In the opening sequence of Unfinished Sentences, over faux-grainy footage of two little girls playing on a beach in the golden light, the narrator relates an anecdote from her childhood. She’s talking to her father, reminding him of the time she and her sister were visiting him in Jamaica and he asked them to each write a story. She wrote hers from the point of view of a crab who drowns after being placed in a bucket of water. After reading the story, the father explained that she couldn’t write about herself drowning, because she’d be dead.
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“Wayne Brown: a man worth knowing“
IMDb, 3rd November 2018
Unfinished Sentences explores the life of Mariel Brown’s deceased father, Wayne Brown, a prolific West Indian writer. The tumultuous father daughter relationship spans decades, pressed against the background of Trinidad and Tobago’s highest point of social unrest, the Black Power Movement.
“IFF Panama: Mariel Brown’s ‘Unfinished Sentences’ Is Ode to Family, Love and Loss“
Variety, 3rd April 2017
Grief is a strange beast. When “Unfinished Sentences” helmer Mariel Brown’s father died in 2009, she was afflicted with a psychosomatic hearing problem and plunged into a deep depression. A celebrated Caribbean writer-poet, her father Wayne Brown succumbed to lung cancer not long after he was diagnosed.
“Unfinished Sentences for TT cinema“
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 7th January 2019
AWARD-WINNING local documentary Unfinished Sentences will be released at Digicel IMAX, One Woodbrook Place, from January 16. Unfinished Sentences is a documentary that chronicles the life of celebrated Trinidadian columnist and poet Wayne Brown (who died in 2009) and explores the often tumultuous relationship between him and his filmmaker daughter, Mariel Brown.
“Unfinished Sentences“
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 22nd April 2018
What’s it like to have a father whose literary reputation spans the region? And what’s it like to lose him? Unfinished Sentences, the new documentary feature film by Mariel Brown, is about her relationship with her father, Wayne Brown. The celebrated Trinidadian poet, journalist and writing teacher died in 2009, only a year after Brown reconciled with him after a bitter conflict.
“CTFF Review: Unfinished Sentences“
Vibe 105, 17th September 2018
Unfinished Sentences screened at the CaribbeanTales Film Festival in celebration of Women of Colour Creators. Director and Filmmaker Mariel Brown weaves together a deeply personal, and strikingly honest story, about her tumultuous relationship with her father. The film touches on racial identity, art, poetry, personal and family failures, grief, success and celebrates love. Her father was a poet whose timeless work was expertly scattered throughout the film’s production.
“Unfinished Sentences – A RACA Review“
Caribbean Tales Blog, 12th August 2018
Relationships. They are the backbone of all storytelling. Be they romantic, platonic, spiritual or familial, the skillful exploration of our varied relationships is the foundation upon which all great films are made. In her new documentary, UNFINISHED SENTENCES, Mariel Brown allows the audience to witness the building of her foundation, a deep dive into the loving yet tension filled relationship with her father, Trinidadian writer and poet Wayne Brown.
“Unfinished Sentences brings family drama to Trinidad & Tobago“
The Location Guide, 9th July 2018
Mariel Brown’s Unfinished Sentences, which was recently shopped for distribution at the Cannes Film Festival, was filmed entirely on location in Trinidad and Tobago.
“Unfinished Sentences, unstarted script“
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 26th April 2018
MARIEL BROWN’S film Unfinished Sentences was begun as a documentary about her father, the late Wayne Brown, one of Trinidad’s most influential newspaper writers, a public figure and a fitting subject for biography in any form.
“Sonnets For Albert”
BBC Radio 4
In this programme, Anthony explores ideas around fatherhood, masculinity, absence and loss, as he talks to other artists whose art has become a space for interrogating the memory of their father. We hear from fellow poet Raymond Antrobus, the singer Gregory Porter and the Trinidadian film-maker Mariel Brown.(Including audio material from ‘Unfinished Sentences’, 2019 – courtesy of Mariel Brown.)