Caribbean Film Corner
Congratulations, to all the filmmakers who have won a Caribbean Film Corner award at this year's festival.
looking forward to seeing more films from you all.
Best Documentary:
The First Rasta directed by Helen Lee
Best Short:
Jesus TV directed by Gaston Goldmann
Best Animation:
20 Anos directed by Joel Barbaro Ortiz
Best Cinematography:
Storm for The Coast
Best Directing:
Gaston Goldmann for Jesus Tv
Best Comedy:
The Santana Series directed by Roger Alexis
Best Soundtrack:
Musique Resistance directed by Alice Raulo
Audience Choice Award:
The Santana Series directed by Roger Alexis
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Wednesday 14 6.30-10pm
Feature double bill
(2 amazing films back to back)
The First Rasta (Jamaica/France)
Directed by Helene Lee , 90mins
Thirty years after Bob Marleys death, it is time to pay tribute to Leonard Percival Howell, The First Rasta. At the beginning of the last century, the young Leonard left Jamaica, became a sailor and travelled the world. On his way, he chanced upon all the ideas that stirred his time. From Bolshevism to New Thought, from Gandhi to anarchism, from Garveyism to psychoanalysis, he sought to find his promised land. With this cocktail of ideas Leonard Gong Howell returned to Jamaica and founded Pinnacle, the first Rasta community in 1939. Documentary
Hush11 (Barbados)
Directed by Marcia WEEKES, 102mins
Life for 15 year old Mikisha has been tough over the last year after she becomes pregnant for her boyfriend Troy. Her mother Darlene, a single mom is suffering financially. In These tough times when Mikisha needs help, she meets her wealthy dad Morris and her sister Claire. Could this reunion between Mikisha and her dad be the answer to all her financial needs or is this her worst nightmare? Drama
Thursday 15 6.30-10pm
Short film Corner
(Celebrating the Caribbean's
DIY culture of filmmaking)
Positive & Pregnant, (Trinidad & Tobago)
Directed by Stacey Lela, 24mins
When a pregnant young woman discovers she is HIV positive, her world comes cashing down. As she exhausts her possible options, the damage caused by her own errors overshadows whatever hopes she foresees for her child. Docu-drama
Sweet T&T, (Trinidad & Tobago)
Directed by Andre JOHNSON 38mins
When Sherry, a British subject, suddenly goes missing on carnival Tuesday in Trinidad. Her sweetheart Anton, a Trinidad and Tobago national receives a ransom call. With the assistance of his bloodthirsty friend Jackson, Anton blazes a bloody trail in a bid to recover her alive and unharmed only to stumble unto a shocking discovery. Drama
Musique Resistance, (French West Indies/France)
Directed by Alice Raulo 33mins
Music implies and enables resistance. Filmed in Colombia, Central America and the Caribbean Resistance music gives a voice to artists who struggle every day. Hip-Hop, Eletronic, Blue or ritual their music challenges. Invitation to hear the rhythms and ideas around resistance within the Caribbean basin. Documentary
BREAK 15mins
Y-ning? (Trinidad & Tobago)
Directed by Emilie Upczak 13mins
Y-nini? explores the popular social dance in Trinidad as a new language formed out of the Caribbean experience. Contending that the dance is not only sexual, but also of social and historical relevance. Documentary
Patsy/Santana, (Trinidad & Tobago)
Directed by Roger Alexis 20mins. Comedy
Memoirs of the Blue, ( Antigua & Barbuda)
Directed by Luke MacDonald 42mins
Finding himself through the twilight zone of life and death, stranded on a deserted island. The amnesiac Calo searches for answers to his past and struggles to maintain his sanity when the island proves to be much more than he can handle. Drama
Friday 16 6.30-10pm
Film Corner MASTER's CLASS
(Main speakers Colin GRANT, writer, Playwrite and radio Producer & Stevan RILEY director of FIRE IN BABYLON)
The Coast, (Jamaica)
Directed by Nile Saulter 7mins
When Patasha is called upon to make a routine delivery to Dylan and Veronica, a young tourist couple, she encounters a situation that will test her morality. The young spear-fisherman Samson also wants to make a transaction, but this one is of a more sinister nature. A love letter to the rugged cliffs of Negril, Coast is also an examination of choices, and how ugly or stunningly beautiful this island can truly be. Suspense-Drama
Missed, (Jamaica)
Directed by Michelle Serieux 20mins
A startling reality unfolds for Catherine when she is forced to confront her husbands Blue Mountain roots. MISSED is a story about human folly and the devastation of unmet expectation. Drama
The Village, (Aruba/UK)
Directed by Wayne Brown 14mins
The dreams of a young kickboxing star are challenged when a local gang tries to recruit him by distracting him from attending school. He is determined to make the right choices! Can love save the day? Drama
Rainbow Hill, (Trinidad/Mexico)
Directed by Wendell McShine mins
Stopmotion
20 Anos, (Cuba)
Directed by Barbaro Joel Ortiz, 12mins
The first ever Best Latin American Animation Award went to Cuban animator Barbaro Joel Ortiz for 20 Years, a stop motion/claymation film which explores what goes on behind the closed doors of a marriage. The very real issues of love, frustration, betrayal and domestic violence are explored with great insight in this silent film. Claymotion
Tree Fern Carver, (Dominica/France)
Directed by Pierre Deschamps 7mins
Portrait of a man called Jerry Maka West a simple man, an artist through necesitity, creole for a Man of the Hills. Documentary
Jesus TV, (Venezuela)
Directed by Gastón Goldmann & Hector Rivera Orbegoso 15mins
Jesus TV is a short comedy that has the Son of God returns to earth to realize that his speech is already a bit "old fashioned". Following the advice of her guardian angel and with the help of famed TV producer Pedro A. Postol, Jesus Christ is suited to our times and becomes the star of the most successful reality show recently, "Jesus TV". A prime-time show where the Lord will do the most amazing miracles, know love, and when you least expect it, will come face to face with the real owner of prime time, Lucifer. Comedy
BREAK 15mins
Film Corner MASTERs CLASS: DIY Culture in Caribbean filmmaking 40mins
(Main speakers Micheal De SOUZA one of the
creators of the BBCs children series RASTA MOUSE
& Stevan RILEY director of FIRE IN BABYLON)
Skype interviews with:
Wendell McShine animator/graphic artist (Mexico)
Storm filmmaker (Jamaica), Roger Alexis puppeteer director (Trinidad & Tobago)
The Other side of Carnival, (Trinidad/USA)
Directed by Charysse Tia Harper, 45mins
The Other Side of Carnival explore Carnivals social and economic impact on Trinidad & Tobago. This documentary tries to capture the essence of Carnival, showing the lengths that would go to keep the original idea alive, while others try to interate change. Documentary
El Reino Animal, (Trinidad/USA)
Directed by Ruben Mendoza, 34mins
An old man in Bueno Aires passing through a critical moment of his life. Coupled with a couple of years unemployed, lives with five animals each caged and dying to sleep with someone, but has no money to pay for sex, and no longer has free-love. A girl selling lilies will be his last meeting of this day, an the day of an old sexual eagerness. Drama
Hi ALL DUE TO UN FORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, WE ARE FORCED TO CANCEL THE SATURDAY MORNING (17 sept 2011) ANIMATION CORNER.
The Caribbean Film Corner apologises for any inconvenience caused.
Kind Regards
Caribbean Film Corner
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