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I Love Ana Cut
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A first-generation Jamaican-American, high school student named Mars, is suffering from anorexia in silence and gets involved in a pro-anorexia group chat called “I Love Ana.” The group guides her to starve herself and get involved in self-destructive behaviors. Mars is a creative spirit with a passion for ballet and poetry but feels pressure from her parents, ballet instructor, and crush (Ziggy), to be perfect and relies on the group chat to make her that way; but will she lose herself in Ana’s control? Based on a true story.

Director/Screenwriter: Alyssa G. Mullings
Country: USA

COMING SOON…
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Aaah-Inspiring Antarctica – A Jamaican on Ice
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A thought-provoking 16-minute film about Judith’s experience on her journey to Antarctica but more importantly, about the changing experiences of the wildlife and ice caps being affected by climate change and the effects this will have on us all. After all, we have but one Earth.

Director: Judith Falloon Reid
Country: USA

Panomundo Part 2: Pan Worldwide
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From the innovative minds of the people from Trinidad & Tobago to the ends of the world! “Panomundo Part 2: Pan Worldwide,” is the follow up to “Part 1: The Evolution of the Steelpan,” which showcases the global influence of the steelpan from Trinidad & Tobago to Canada, Japan, Nigeria, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.

Director: Keith Musaman Morton
Country: Trinidad & Tobago

The Other Side of Carnival
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“The Other Side of Carnival” is a 45-minute documentary that explores Carnival’s social and economic impact on Trinidad & Tobago. With more than 60 interviews from professors, medical staff, police officers, government officials, students, tourists, everyday locals and more, The Other Side of Carnival is able to highlight that while Carnival is an exciting occasion, it is a festival that creates turmoil, which is not widely visible…or is it just simply ignored? Known as “The Greatest Show on Earth”, this documentary captures the roots of Carnival and how far some go to keep the original idea alive, and how others attempt to integrate change.

Director: Charysse Tia Harper
Country: Trinidad & Tobago

Our Island Our Home
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This short educational film documents the activism and insights of a well-known historical figure in the US Virgin Islands, Senator Theovald Moorehead (1916-1995), to remind young Virgin Islanders to dream, be brave, and stay the course as they struggle today to manage the luxury tourism development of their home island, St. John. As one young St. Johnian explains, “the space has lost its deep culture.”

Director: Crystal Fortwangler
Country: USVI

Zeen?
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Chad is a pretentious white Jamaican film director. With his ragtag Caribbean cast and crew, he aims to shoot a highbrow social drama called “Brothers in Babylon.”

Director: Calyx Passailaigue
Country: Canada

Trois Machettes (Three Blades)
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Haiti, nowadays. One day in the life of a family of men, alone with their dreams and frustrations; three generations under the burning sun. A day like every other day… And between them, everywhere, in every hand, there are blades– machetes. So, when the night eventually comes…

Director: Matthieu Maunierrossi
Country: France/Haiti

The Quiet
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When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realization.
The truth is written in the stars, but what will he uncover?

Director: Radheya Jegatheva
Country: Australia

Tecuani and the Duende – The Voice of the Jaguar
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Young Tecuani is unaware of the adventure she is about to embark on as she chases a purple lizard into a forest cave. Her journey begins with an encounter with the fearsome Tata Duende, a legendary guardian of the forest known for his missing thumbs, backward-facing feet, and his love for playing the guitar. Tata Duende awakens young Tecuani to an epic story of the rise and fall of an ancient civilization that has been forgotten for a thousand years. A story of greed and deceit, but also heroism and redemption. Will the fearless Hunahpu’s efforts to escape from Abya Yala and secure another chance for a peaceful life be for nothing? What will become of the king of the jungle, the mighty jaguar? Can Tecuani fulfill her destiny and become the ‘voice of the jaguar’ to awaken her people once again?

Director: Lee Mcloughlin & David Daniel Smith
Country: Belize

Sampson’s Heart
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A young widower lives in self-imposed exile deep in the country, haunted by a tragic secret. An unexpected visitor from his past makes him confront his shattered life.

Director: Juliette McCawley
Country: Trinidad & Tobago

Home Sweet Home
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When the ghost of a far-removed Jamaican past shows up at her humble Brooklyn apartment, sixty-year-old Esmerelda, a kindly illegal immigrant who works as a home health aide, is dumbfounded. The proverbial ghost, her estranged ex-husband, has flown from Jamaica, eager to find her, and bears news of their terminally ill son; the child he denied her when she was forced to flee Jamaica some thirty years prior. The son’s dying wish is to meet the mother he has never known, but Esmerelda is torn; America is home. If she leaves, there is no going back, but she has long yearned to be reunited with her only child and going back now is her only chance.

Director: Natasha Griffiths
Country: USA

Death Offers Life – Last Moments of Vincent Van Gogh
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The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer, which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully.

Director: Saheer Abbas
Country: India

But You Are Not Black
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A Chinese-Caribbean-Canadian woman, driven by people’s inability to separate her skin colour from her culture, tries to own the Trinidadian identity she knows should feel like hers.“But You’re Not Black” opens on Toronto’s Caribana, which Danielle Ayow has attended for most of her life. The festival represents her parents’ Trinidadian culture, but Danielle is also Chinese and visibly so. She struggles with how people see her background, and how she should see herself.
Using heart and humour, Danielle tries to anchor herself to the culture she knows should feel like hers. She speaks to her Chinese-Caribbean-Canadian peers, to Trinidadian locals, and to experts. The film challenges perceived correlations between race and culture, asking the audience to examine their own assumptions about cultural identity while Danielle navigates hers.

Director: Danielle Ayow
Country: Canada

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