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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Enamoured by the creative world, Reyda Gay has been pursuing an artistic career from a young age with interests in film, theatre and creative writing. Her passions have evolved over the years and led to a career working with regional and international film and cultural productions.
As an independent filmmaker, her most noted work thus far is Beneath the Dock (2016), a fantasy film involving the Barbados Landship. The film was integrated into the Caribbean regional CSEC Theatre Arts syllabus as a learning resource in 2020 and has won several awards on the local scene. More recently, she was commissioned to write a digital comic series entitled, COVID Comic (2020), published by the National Cultural Foundation to educate the populous at the beginning of the pandemic. Abstracts of the comic series were later published in the print edition of the NIFCA Winning Words Anthology 2019-2020.
Reyda further specialized in screenwriting with a MA in Writing for Script and Screen at Falmouth University in 2019 and continues to work in the film industry.
Currently, she is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, and an Other Universals Fellow 2020-2022, researching Cinema, Identity, and the poetics of space in Barbados.
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