Carnival Roots (2002)

An electricfying documentary film about the people and music that fuel Trinidad's breathtaking Carnival. For the last 200 years, the sleeping giant wakes every winter and Trinidad & Tobago braces for another riotous Carnival. The island explodes to the thundering sounds of Steel Drums, Calypso and Soca music, as frenzied masqueraders flood the streets in their magnificent, sexy costumes. This is the moment everyone's been waiting for, the moment to transform into someone else - someone powerful, sexual and completely uninhibited, if only for a few days. Forget Rio. Forget New Orleans. Experience bacchanal Trini style.