Longtime US-based film critic Michael Oliver-Goodwin has named Calypso Dreams, the award-winning documentary chronicling Caribbean calypso that recently played on Grenada Channel 12, as one of the Top Films of the Decade in a list released to international media and cineastes this past week.
 
 Originally known as the Black Shadow Awards when Oliver-Goodwin served as a contributor to Rolling Stone and Take One magazines, the list is now intended as an informal celebration of international filmic arts between 2000-2009.
 
 Oliver-Goodwin, a frequent visitor to T&T over the past two decades, has previously described Calypso Dreams as “far and away the best film ever made about calypso.” He also praised the film of doing “a fantastic job of introducing and celebrating the complex history and unique energy of the art form.”
 
 This latest recognition marks yet another in a long list of accolades for the film that was shot entirely on location in Trinidad and Tobago in the first half of the decade. A rough-cut of Calypso Dreams, directed by Dr. Geoffrey Dunn and Michael Horne, was named Best Caribbean Documentary at the Jamerican Film Festival, and the film has gone on to be selected for first-tier film festivals throughout Europe, North America, South America and the Caribbean.
 
 Regionally, it was featured part of the First Traveling Caribbean Film Showcase, sponsored by UNESCO and coordinated by internationally renowned Cuban film producers Rigoberto Lopez and Luis Notario, touring some 17 countries including Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, Guyana, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, and Suriname. It was also featured at a World Cultural Forum sponsored by the United Nations.
 
 Just this past year, Calypso Dreams was recently identified at a film conference in Florida as “the most important cinematic expression out of Trinidad and Tobago” and “one of the greatest films of the English-speaking Caribbean.”
 
 The film was co-produced in Trinidad and Tobago by Alvin Daniell and Andrew Marcano (Superior). Cinematographer Eric Thiermann and US-based filmmaker Mark Schwartz also served as producers. International reggae star Eddy Grant served as Executive Producer.
 
 The documentary also includes commentaries by David Rudder and Harry Belafonte and interviews with scores of artistes, including Grenada-born Mighty Sparrow, Mighty Bomber and Brother Valentino.
 
 Dr. Dunn has expressed interest in helping to develop the film industry in Grenada.