389

 

Dead Eyes

 

Towel Talk

 

Backlash

 

She

 

The Vault

 

The Eliminator

 

The Biggest Fan

 

All of Emily

    

Comfortably numb: Trinidad and Tobago waking up after terrorism

 

Jacques and his Master

    

2007

 

2007

 

2006

 

2006

 

2005

 

2005

 

2004

 

2002

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

1998

type

    

short film

 

feature film

 

short film

 

feature film

 

short film

 

feature film

 

feature film

 

feature film

 

short film

 

feature documentary

 

 

theatre play

role

 

producer/ editor

 

producer/ writer

 

producer/writer

 

producer

 

producer

 

producer/ writer

 

co-producer

 

co-producer

 

producer

 

producer/ camera

 

 

producer/ director

bio

 

cauri began his career in theatre and television as an actor on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. While still a teenager he realised that the Caribbean had few productions in which to act. Not one to concede defeat, he bagan to produce for the theatre. The theatre introduced cauri to the world of television where he quickly attempted every role possible in front of and behind the camera. He eagerly worked as a gaffer, grip, camera man, actor, director, producer, writer, editor, art director, special effects designer and production manager.

 

After a few years cauri opened his own company and worked up and down the caribbean islands producing ads for tv, multimedia presentations, web sites (from 1997), print and radio. In the midst of this, various film companies from abroad visited Trinidad and he worked on every project that came along in one capacity or another.

 

Eventually a local film, produced by a Hollywood-educated young producer, hired cauri as an actor... and a special effects designer. The fast-paced action-adventure called for all manner of stunts and effects of which Trinidad had access to none of the equipment. After blowing a 1 metre hole in the garden, littering the driveway with scrap materials and staining the kitchen counter relentlessly cauri managed to create explosives, bullet hits, fake blood, miniature people and helicopters, breakaway furniture and stunt gags... for US $400! As an additional challenge cauri convinced the director to add in a scene where the "bad guys" blow up a barn while chasing the hero. cauri built the miniature barn and the surrounding countryside and, quite unceremoniously stuffed it will condoms full of natural gas and blew it sky high! The image of the exploding barn reached the poster of the film, helped the distributor sell it to cable channels like Showtime and helped seal a long-standing relationship between this distributor and the film's producer and, more recently, cauri himself.

 

Following this cauri moved to Hollywood where he decided that to work as a good producer or director he had to know what every person on the set goes through. No better way exists to get that knowledge than to do the jobs himself. He worked in every department on low and medium budget films.

 

Following Hollywood cauri took a break from film as he got embroiled in his hobby of computers and multimedia. After a number of years running dot com companies, doing project management and working in design, cauri returned to film. He contacted his producer friend in Hollywood and joined him in his quest to put out a slate of 14 profit-making low-budget films over a 5 year period in the competitive, international direct-to-dvd market.

 

When not making films he lectures on production & post production in London, mentors young filmmakers, builds websites and databases for friends and practises kung fu. He presently works with partners in London, Netherlands, the Caribbean and Los Angeles to bring together his productions, enjoying every minute of it.