ARAWAK DOCUMENTARY PROJECT
AN INTERNATIONAL APPEAL FOR FUNDING
This unique project aims to produce three 60 minute documentaries about the
pre-Columbian Arawak people and culture in the Caribbean. The aim of this
not-for-profit endeavour is to provide primary, secondary, and tertiary
level students of the Caribbean (primarilly) with a unique educational tool
in their studies of the first people encountered by Columbus.
Professor Karl Watson, head of the History Department at the University of
the West Indies (Cave Hill Campus, Barbados W.I.), and Mr. Kevin Farmer,
assistant Curator of Archaeology of the Barbados Museum and Historical
Society - have graciously volunteered their services as special advisors to
the project. Together with Damon Gerard Corrie - Fifth Hereditary Paramount
Chief of the Eagle Clan Arawaks (who conceived the project), the three
gentlemen concluded that Caribbean students would absorb and retain a
considerably greater volume of this important historical information with
the essential visual aids that this unprecedented documentary set will
provide.
The filming will be done in both Guyana and Barbados by First Nations
Productions - an Amerindian owned and operated business, with full-blooded
Arawaks in Guyana providing the cast for the three productions; for an
estimated cost of US$4,000 (Four thousand dollars) - including editing which
will be done in Barbados.
Sales of the end product VHS trilogy to extra-regional or non-educational
related interested parties such as private citizens or Video rental
operators, will help to subsidize our efforts to provide copies to regional
institutions of learning - FREE OF COST.
It is a source of funding for this meritorious endeavour that we are
desirous of securing, and in addition to officially acknowledging the
kindhearted benefactor/s in the film credits of each documentary - and in
local, regional and international publicity campaigns; your generosity will
also be given prominence in the Honourable Mention section of our
website at www.PanTribalConfederacy.com
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