Mathurin Emmanuel, Actress, Director, Screenwriter

Mathurin Emmanuel is the creative energy and force behind Iyanola Pic-tures and Vizyon De Lavi. Born and raised in Desruisseaux, Micoud, she was the sixth of twelve children of Gerald Charles St. Ange, and Mary Francita St. Ange. She attended the Desruisseaux Combined School, the Micoud Junior Secondary School, the Vieux Fort Secondary School and the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College where she graduated with a teaching diploma. Beginning at age seventeen, Ms. Emmanuel has spent most of her adult life teaching. She taught twenty-three years at the Desruisseaux and Blanchard Combined Schools, and, retiring from the public school system in 2000, she took up a teaching position at the Montessorie Center, a private primary school at Rodney Heights.

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strength, resilience, and triumph In Nana’s Paradise, a young man overcomes extreme poverty, a dys-functional home, peer ridicule, and death in his family to embark on an epic journey that takes him to England on an island scholarship. There he overcomes cultural shock, the bitter London cold and homesickness to return home triumphantly and do right by his mother, Nana, who, fac-ing desperate poverty, spousal abuse and infidelity, was single-handedly responsible for holding her family together.

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family values The movie includes heart felt performances by Keddy Emmanuel, who plays Nana’s oldest child and the hero of the story; comical, exuberant and moving performances by a cast of Nana’s younger children played by Eli Kelvin Peters, Rebecca Chitolie, Shannice Louis, and Nicole Augustin; and strong performances by John Philipson who plays Nana’s husband and father of her children. But it is Mathurin Emmanuel’s dra-matic flair and mesmerizing performance that bind the movie together and set it apart as one of a kind.

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“A great triumph!”

“A mesmerizing and one of a kind movie”

“Mesmerizing!”

“A testament to the strength, resilience, and triumph of the human spirit over all odds”

“One of a kind!”

“The epic story of a young man beating the odds to emerge triumphantly”

“A True Epic!”

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Iyanola Pictures was established to produce and bring to market films set in St. Lucia and of a St. Lucian flavor and to create video educational material for primary and second-ary schools. The company focuses on mate-rial that has entertainment value yet imparts positive social values and exposes viewers to St. Lucian history and culture.

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