Festival Program FEBR U AR Y 6-9, 2020
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Festival FEBRUARY 6-9, 2020 program 1 Contents 4 About Third Horizon 5 Welcome to the Fourth Edition 6 Letter from the Programmer FESTIVAL 7 Film & Event Schedule PROGRAM 8 Featured Artist 29 Shorts ATTEND 43 Tickets & Admission 43 Venues & Events 44 Festival Team 2 3 WELCOME TO THE FOURTH EDITION What is home? For those of us who Perhaps our foundation lies in our stories, know it to be the Caribbean, however in bearing witness to each other, our far we may have traveled away from triumphs and struggles, fostering a knowing it, there is no simple answer. As the from which we cannot be uprooted. A world’s crossroads in both history and reawakened knowing of ourselves and geography, this region of small islands others that will power us to victory against and nations has been settled by every all that still seeks to claim dominion over our kind of person imaginable, sometimes bodies and these lands. by choice and often by force. In many ways, we are a people defined by As a collective, we’ve been unable to shake movement—be it migration or gyration— these thoughts since our last edition of and our pathways, seeded with the the festival, and it has deeply informed this accumulated spirit and knowledge of year’s programming. We hope these films all that came before us, continue to lay both enliven and enlighten in these perilous the tracks for so much culture the world times, and help us find home, first and knows. foremost, in each other. We hope to see you this weekend at Third Horizon Film Festival Recent history has once again put 2020. forces beyond our will against us, setting us on the move. Monster hurricanes spawned by environmental carelessness — primarily due to the policies of larger nations — Jason Fitzroy Jeffers have ravaged our region first and Festival Director most devastatingly. Meanwhile, our neighborhoods in these more THIRD HORIZON is a creative collective dedicated to producing, exhibiting and developed countries are increasingly distributing film and other arts which give voice to stories of the Caribbean, its diaspora being torn apart by callous gentrification and other marginalized and underrepresented spaces in the Global South. Our flagship and systemic racism. Where is there initiative is Third Horizon Film Festival, which takes place every year in Miami. shelter? What is truly home? 4 5 LETTER FROM THE PROGRAMMER There’s been much discussion lately about what cinema is, or to grips with a fresh set of challenges such as intensifying what it isn’t. What makes a film, a film, or something else (like a climate change and continue to navigate existing predicaments theme-park ride). Such debates can, of course, be the breeding including systemic racism, the cohort of filmmakers whose grounds for snobbery, a palpable irony given that cinema has work we are honoured to share—comprising Caribbean and always been essentially a gloriously popular artform—to say Caribbean-descended filmmakers in the region and outside nothing of the fact that such snobbery has never been in the of it, non-Caribbean filmmakers who take the region as their interests of those who come from the traditional margins, like subject, and collaborative teams of both—have responded to Caribbean people. these issues in ways that eloquently reflect the THFF ethos better than we could have hoped. Yet if we say we’re passionate about cinema, and in particular Caribbean cinema, then the question “What is cinema?” is one Much of this work, embracing the power of the brief gesture, we must always ask in one way or another. Not only because favours the short form over the feature-length film. The sche the future of the artform depends on its ability to evolve within result: a greater number of shorts programmes in the festival a rapidly changing global landscape, but also because in our than ever before. Many films also roundly reject the fiction/ small, scattered islands, where what’s known as a film industry documentary binary in favour of a more radically liberating has never existed in any real sense of the term, we still thrillingly hybrid approach, one that recognises—deliberately or not—the possess the ability to decide for ourselves what we want fluidity of Caribbean identity, and the region itself as the ultimate dule Caribbean cinema to be. hybrid creation. Yet even where the lineup hews to the more conventional fiction or documentary feature, the filmmakers It’s that sense of possibility, not only of telling stories too-long in question have set about their task with no less intelligence, untold through the medium of cinema, but also of telling them audacity and imagination. in ways that appropriately reflect and respond to the complex circumstances that made the Caribbean what it is—nothing Whatever you think cinema is, then, and even what you might less than the first truly modern society—that has driven not have thought it to be, you’ll find at this year’s THFF. We invite the curatorial impulse of Third Horizon Film Festival from you to dive in, and embrace a Caribbean you perhaps didn’t its inception. We privilege cinema that explores the infinite know you needed to see—and one that you definitely won’t possibilities of the form, going beyond mere representation soon forget. while still doing the necessary work of telling our Antillean tales, with empathy and awareness. This year, I’m pleased to say, it’s even more of the same. As Jonathan Ali the Caribbean and its diaspora, no strangers to adversity, get Programming Director 7 SANDRA OPENING BREWSTER: NIGHT PARTY FEATURING BLUR FOREIGNER Join us for the opening reception of Sandra Brewster: Blur at Third Sandra Brewster is a Canadian visual artist Horizon, curated by Christopher Cozier, on Wednesday, February 5 at based in Toronto. Her work engages notions IPC ArtSpace in Little Haiti. Brewster and Cozier will be in conversation of identity, representation and memory, TH fam Foreigner returns to Little Haiti to usher in our fourth with Dr. Pat Saunders of the University of Miami, and guests will be centering Black presence. The daughter of edition! The acclaimed Trinidadian-Venezuelan DJ who is treated to complimentary rum courtesy of Rhum Clément (Martinique), Guyanese-born parents, she is especially beloved in the L.A. underground for his entrancing mixes of Chairman’s Reserve (Saint Lucia), Foursquare (Barbados), and Worthy attuned to the experiences of people of Afro-diasporic brown body sounds will be on the decks in the Park (Jamaica). Caribbean heritage and their ongoing Little Haiti Cultural Complex’s courtyard. relationships with back home. Brewster’s Free with RSVP. work has been featured in the Art Gallery of Free and open to the public. Ontario (2019-2020), she is the 2018 recipient of the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Sandra Brewster: Blur will be on view throughout Prize and her exhibition It’s all a blur… received the weekend at IPC Artspace in Little Haiti. the Gattuso Prize for outstanding featured exhibition of CONTACT Photography Festival Thursday February 6 6 PM – 10 PM 8:30pm • wed 2017. Brewster holds a Masters of Visual Friday February 7 5 PM – 8 PM 8:30pm • thu Studies from University of Toronto. She is Saturday February 8 12 PM – 8 PM FEBRUARY 5 represented by Georgia Scherman Projects. Sunday February 9 12 PM – 8 PM FEBRUARY 6 IPC ArtSpace Little Haiti Cultural Complex 8 9 A RADICAL EMPATHY: ESERY MONDESIR’S HAITIAN TRILOGY openIng night Canada, Haiti This opening night program contains the following short films: Haitian Creole with English Subtitles 95 minutes Director Esery Mondesir Three documentary films exploring the lives of Haitian and Haitian-descended communities in Cuba and Mexico by Haitian-Canadian director Esery Mondesir. Esery Mondesir is a Toronto-based filmmaker who was born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti. He worked as a high school teacher, a book designer, and a labour organizer Paria, Mon Frère Una Sola Sangre What Happens to a Dream Deferred? Director Esery Mondesir will be in attendance for a Q&A. before receiving an MFA in cinema production from York 30 mins | 2019 40 mins | 2018 25 mins | 2019 University (Toronto) in 2017. His work, which includes In Tijuana, Mexico, Saul and and his father- Despite not seeing their father’s homeland It’s New Year’s Eve in Tijuana, Mexico. As documentary, fiction, and experimental narratives, takes in-law Mathieu sell recycled tennis shoes. until their sixth decades, the Galde family Wood and Colonel make soup joumou to a critical stance on modern-day social, political, and After a long trek from Haiti they wait to claim of Cuba have long been marked by their celebrate Haitian Independence, memories cultural phenomena to suggest a reading of our society asylum in the US. We too shall wait, passers- Haitianness – an identity they negotiate in of the perilous journey that brought them here from its margins. His work has been shown in Canada and by on “The Route” to the springs hoping to various ways. Through moments of work, resurface. Now they’re sandwiched between internationally. In 2016, he received the Lawrence Heisey quench the thirst for freedom, liberty and rest, and celebration, Una Sola Sangre their dream of entering the US and an American Graduate Award in Fine Arts and, in 2017, he received the the pursuit of happiness. produces a profound portrait of a family, a president who calls Haiti a “shithole” and 6:30pm • thu Paavo and Aino Lukkari Human Rights Award from the neighborhood, and a nation. believes all Haitians have AIDS.