THE DELIVERER

category: narratives, short films

THE DELIVERER

Joseph Chike, a fisherman on a hunger strike, leads his family and a handful of villagers in a failed protest of an oil refinery threatening to displace them off their ancestral land. One evening out at sea, Joseph rescues a wounded drug runner; Shane Khan near an old oil rig and hides him in the village. When a corrupt government official suggests that Joseph pay her a bribe to save his home, he accepts Shane’s prior offer to traffic cocaine cross the rough waters of Serpents Mouth; a perilous 7 miles of sea separating Trinidad and Venezuela, to raise the cash.
After Joseph and Shane oust rival cartels and secure impunity from the police the village cartel expands as does Shane’s greed for money and power. After much loss and bloodshed, the survival of the fishing village lies in the balance and Joseph must find the courage to confront Shane and deliver the village from Shane’s grasp.

directed by PAUL PRYCE
As a filmmaker, Paul’s debut film Come Out, Come Out World Premiered at the Cannes Short Film Corner 2017 and was an official selection of the 2017 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. His recent film THE DELIVERER premiered at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Short and the People’s Choice award. It was screened at Caribbean Tales International Film Festival in Toronto, The Montreal International Black Film Festival, Toronto Black Film Festival and Arpa International Film Festival among others. His other film Between Us, shot both in South Korea and New York City screened at Woods Hole Film Festival, Route 66 Film Festival and KAFFNY. His original television series SERPENTS MOUTH was selected for the 2018 Caribbean Tales Incubator film lab and won both the First Prize and the Audience award at the 2018 Breakfast at TIFF BIG PITCH competition at the Toronto International Film Festival. His feature length screenplay THE DELIVERER was a shortlisted finalist at the 2017 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, 2018 Stowe Story Lab Finalist, Quarter-Finalist at 2018 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards and landed in the Top 20 percentile of 9,000 entries of the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and was a Second-Rounder at the Austin Film Festival script competition. Both THE DELIVERER and BETWEEN US are proof of concepts for feature films currently in-development. As an actor he appeared on Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Unforgettable on A+E and has performed in many plays across the United States, the Caribbean and internationally. Paul is a Yale School of Drama alum and was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. For more information please visit: www.paulpryce.com,www.thedeliverermovie.com.

Trinidad & Tobago | 2018 | 14 MINS