By Subhana Shiwmangal
Mason Richards, a Brooklyn, USA-based Guyanese award-winning filmmaker, professor, and creative producer, recently spent two weeks in Guyana, in search of a location to shoot scenes for his upcoming feature film, “Beyond the Seawall”.
Although the date of the release of the film is yet to be announced, the writer/director/producer with 20-plus years’ experience in the entertainment industry revealed that it builds upon his short film “The Seawall”.
The short film, Richards explained, is about migration; about a boy leaving Guyana to be with his mother in Brooklyn, New York. In the feature, “Beyond the Seawall”, the boy, now an adult, returns to Guyana to sell his grandmother’s house. In so doing, he discovered things about his past that prompted him to begin his own investigation. He meets up with his best friend, Anil, and goes on a deeper journey into the heart of Guyana to find his father who had left the family when he was born.