program Festival FEBRUARY 6-9, 2020

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 , 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 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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. Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean FEBRUARY 6 at . Little Haiti Cultural Complex 10 11 DE LO MIO UNCIVILIZED

Two “ride or die” sisters raised in NYC reunite with their estranged brother Dominican Republic | 2019 Dominica | 2019 Disenchanted with the modern world, Michael Lees heads into the forest in Dominican Republic to clean out their late father’s childhood home. The Spanish with English Subtitles English of Dominica with some basic survival gear, religious texts, a camera, and siblings laugh, brawl, and face their demons as they come to terms with 71 minutes 75 minutes questions: ”Why did man ever leave the forest? And what makes a good life?” letting go of their last connection to their motherland. This achingly alive Just as he starts to acclimatize to his new life, the unthinkable: category five feature debut from Diana Peralta is a richly human look at cherishing the Director Director Hurricane Maria makes direct landfall. Michael must ride out the hurricane past while learning to let go. Diana Peralta Michael Lees in his palm leaf and bamboo hut, and the entire country must now return to a past way of life.

Director Diana Peralta will be in attendance for a Q&A. Director Michael Lees will be in attendance for a Q&A.

Preceded by the short film Foreclosed Home Movie.

Diana Peralta is a filmmaker, producer, and writer from Michael Lees is a Dominican filmmaker whose films City. Her debut feature DE LO MIO had its world explore themes of environmentalism and spirituality, premiere as the closing night film of BAMcinemaFest aiming to connect the dots in the “bigger picture.” Michael in June 2019. The film won “Best Narrative Feature” at attended UNC Chapel Hill, where he spent the first half of 5:30pm • fri Indie Memphis in 2019. Diana was featured in Filmmaker his college career studying business at the Kenan-Flagler 7:45pm • fri Magazine’s annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film” Business School, later switching his major from business FEBRUARY 7 issue in September 2019. She currently works as a Sr. to film. Lees has written, shot, and edited for clients ranging FEBRUARY 7 Little Haiti Cultural Complex Producer at Revlon, Inc. from Billboard to UNICEF. Little Haiti Cultural Complex 12 13 WENDY CARIOKE

The classic story of Peter Pan is wildly reimagined in this ragtag epic from United States | 2020 Karaoke did not begin in the Caribbean, but few people around the world are Benh Zeitlin, director of Beasts of the Southern Wild. Lost on a mysterious English as passionate about caterwauling other people’s tunes as Caribbean folks. island where aging and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save 112 minutes Maybe it’s the rum. Maybe it’s the sorrows of colonialism. Whatever the case, her family, her freedom, and the joyous spirit of youth from the deadly peril karaoke nights in the Caribbean somehow manage to be epic with no frills of growing up. Director whatsoever. Benh Zeitlin Director Benh Zeitlin will be in attendance for a Q&A. Join us at the longstanding Little Havana bar La Esquina de la Fama for Cari-Oke, a special karaoke night during which we’ll be singing Caribbean classics, everything from reggae to salsa, not to mention unexpected regional favorites such as country music classics and sappy old R&B.

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Benh Zeitlin is a writer, director, and composer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. His films include the four-time Oscar nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild, Wendy, and the short Glory at Sea. He composes music for his 10:00pm • fri own films and others such as Brimstone & Glory and 11:00pm • fri Mediterranea. He also works to help emerging filmmakers FEBRUARY 7 making ‘impossible’ projects through the Court 13 FEBRUARY 7 collective – producing on films such as Burning Cane, Give Tower Theater Me Liberty, and No Kings La Esquina de la Fama 14 15 DATELINE CARIBBEAN: CONTINUE THE DOCUMENTARY CONVERSATION: SHORTS BATAY LA

In an ever-changing land and seascape, these short documentary Batay Ouvriye workers say, “We will not stop until our last breath,” and the dispatches examine contemporary issues across the Caribbean. short film Batay La inspires viewers to do the same, not just in support of their struggle, but to resist the forces of imperialism, gentrification, inequality, and fascism in our own backyards. Following Batay La’s screening as part of “Dateline Caribbean”, the conversation continues at The Caribbean Marketplace with organizers from Batay Ouvriye, One Struggle Miami and director Malia Bruker. The discussion will center on social/political organization, independence, and movement.

Unpacking Hidden World Nearest Neighbours Batay La Dir. Annabelle Mullen Pacheco Dir. Kenrich Cairo Dir. Rhonda Chan Soo Dir. Malia Bruker 22 minutes | 2019 32 minutes | 2018 22 minutes | 2019 25 minutes | 2019 Puerto Rico Suriname Trinidad & Tobago Haiti 11:00am • sat 1:30pm • sat FEBRUARY 8 FEBRUARY 8 Little Haiti Cultural Complex Little Haiti Cultural Complex 16 17 REPUBLICS REIMAGINED: MIRYAM CHARLES’ HAITIAN SHORTS BARREL STORIES: AND GARRETT BRADLEY’S AMERICA BEYOND THE FRAME

In an ever-changing land and seascape, these short documentary Director Miryam Charles will be in attendance for a Q&A. In this talk, Lisa Harewood will discuss the evolution of Barrel Stories, dispatches examine contemporary issues across the Caribbean. her project about Caribbean parents and children separated because of economic migration. What started out as a short film on the subject has evolved into a multi-year project that is using storytelling across a number of different platforms (idoc, virtual reality and interactive installation), to help families and communities have important conversations about the benefits and fallout of children being left behind.

Feu de Bengale Vole, vole tristesse Vers les colonies Une forteresse Drei Atlas (Three Second America There will also be an opportunity for a limited number of people to book a (Bengal Light) (Fly, Fly Sadness) (Towards the (A Fortress) Atlas) Generation Dir. Garrett Bradley viewing of her virtual reality work in progress, Love and Seawater. Dir. Olivier Godin Dir. Miryam Charles colonies) Dir. Miryam Charles Dir. Miryam Charles Dir. Miryam Charles 29 mins | 2019 Lisa Harewood is a Barbadian media maker based in 11 mins | 2014 5 mins | 2015 Dir. Miryam Charles 6 mins | 2018 6 mins | 2018 5 mins | 2019 USA London. She has had a varied career as a creative in Co-Presented with Filmgate Miami French with French with 5 mins | 2016 French with German and Haitian Haitian Creole English Subtitles English subtitles French with English subtitles Creole with English and English with advertising, development communication and interactive English subtitles subtitles English Subtitles media. In 2019, her virtual reality project, Love and Seawater, was selected to pitch at Sheffield DocFest Talent Market and IDFA Forum. Lisa’s work has been featured in outlets such as Voices of New York, nbc.com 1:30pm • sat and Caribbean Beat. 3:00pm • sat FEBRUARY 8 FEBRUARY 8 Little Haiti Cultural Complex LHCC Caribbean Marketplace 18 19 18 19 INGLAN MY INGLAN: STONES UNITED KINGDOM HAVE LAWS SHORTS

Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu a Weti) is an immersive initiation into the life Suriname | 2019 United Kingdom These shorts by Black British filmmakers deploy radical uses of form as a of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname. Combining Dutch with English Subtitles English means of resisting the sensational and stereotypical. stories of African ancestral traditions and escaped slavery with enacted 100 minutes 104 minutes contemporary rituals, the film explores how the community’s powerful ties to the land have become endangered as industries threaten to devastate Directors the region through deforestation and mining. Lonnie van Brummelen Siebren de Haan Tolin Erwin Alexander Co-director Tolin Erwin Alexander will be in attendance for a Q&A.

Fi Dem Another Decade A Protest, a where did we land Fi Dem II Early Years Dir. Zinzi Minott Dir. Morgan Quaintance Celebration, a Dir. Rabz Lansiquot Dir. Zinzi Minott Dir. Morgan Quaintance Stones Have Laws is the result of a collaboration between 6 mins | 2018 27 mins | 2018 Mixed Message 30 mins | 2019 9 mins | 2019 16 mins | 2019 Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan — who did Dir. Rhea Storr research, camera operating, sound recording and editing 12 mins | 2018 — Surinamese theatermaker Tolin Erwin Alexander, and 3:30pm • sat the Maroon community of the former Dutch colony of 6:00pm • sat FEBRUARY 8 Suriname, . FEBRUARY 8 Little Haiti Cultural Complex Little Haiti Cultural Complex 20 21 SECOUSSE: A SEXY-ASS FRENCH CHÈCHE LAVI CARIBBEAN PARTY

Chèche Lavi is a lyrical portrait of two Haitian migrants, Robens and James, USA, Haiti | 2019 We’re all about the close, tight, sweet and steamy partner dancing tonight who find themselves stranded at the US-Mexico border with no way Haitian Creole with English Subtitles to the sounds of the Francophone Caribbean: Zouk, Konpa, Kizonmba, etc. forward and no one to depend on but each other. 76 minutes We’re teaming up with our brother DJ Kumi and his Rum n’Coke crew to hit N’Namdi Gallery for a late night party and the opening of Stephen Arboite’s Their unexpected friendship shines in the eye of an incomprehensible Director show “Dreamscapes: The Metaphor Has Shifted to Healing”. geopolitical storm, even as the two men drift towards drastically different Sam Ellison futures, and a new wall rises on the horizon. This isn’t a film about crossing $5 suggested donation at the door goes to the Community Justice Project. borders, but about how it feels when you can’t cross. And how it feels to start over as a stranger in a strange land.

Director Sam Ellison will be in attendance for a Q&A.

The core creative group of filmmakers here includes perspectives from all sides of the intercultural space our film depicts:Rachel Cantave (producer) is a Haitian- American anthropologist and Haitian Creole speaker who has done extensive field work in Brazil;Abraham 8:00pm • sat Ávila (producer) is a filmmaker from Tijuana whose deep 10:00pm • sat network of connections in his home city allowed incredible FEBRUARY 8 access; and Sam Ellison (director, based in New York) FEBRUARY 8 has deep experience in narrative cinematography and a Little Haiti Cultural Complex documentary education from Harvard and Stanford. N’Namdi Gallery 22 23 QUEER COOLIE-TUDES TIMELESS HAVANA

Queer Coolie-tudes reclaims the slur of “coolie“ and compellingly visualizes Canada | 2019 Cuba | 2019 Felipe, a tortured film director, tries in vain to create an authentic portrayal the inter-generational lives, identities, and sexualities of a range of subjects English Spanish with English subtitles of love that his grandfather could so easily capture in his amateur films of from the queer Indo-Caribbean and black diasporas in Canada. Instead 87 minutes 64 minutes decades prior. Felipe’s lens follows two actors, Edel and May, who play the of succumbing to pressures to find a shared narrative or common ground, characters Alejandro and Rita, strangers with different motives looking for the the documentary is a powerful collection of testimonies: mixed-race Director Director same girl. Their search meanders through a chaotic Havana that gets them identities, , age, and disability are portrayed in nuanced ways. Queer Michelle Mohabeer Jeissy Trompiz simultaneously nowhere and entangled. Likewise, Felipe’s film meanders Coolie-tudes speaks to the limits of identity and and the importance of not from scene to scene, as he confronts his incapacity for love. accepting erasure. Preceded by the short film The Cemetery Lightens. Co-presented with Maven Leadership Collective.

Preceded by the short films My Mother Resents Me and Langston Dreams of Fancy Sailors.

Michelle Mohabeer is -born and lives in Toronto. Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1986, Jeissy Trompiz She is an award-winning filmmaker and media artist. started his career in theater as an actor and writer. He Queer Coolie-tudes (2019) is her second experimental has directed the short films: Me dicen Drupi… (2008), feature documentary, Prior films include the feature essay Bolivar, The Liberator of Souls (2015), Autumn of Socialist documentary: Blu In You (2008), Coconut/Cane & Cutlass Nation (The Collapse of the Soviet Union) (2019) and 11:00am • sun (1994), and various shorts such as Echoes (2003) and more. His work has screened in festivals such the Festival 1:30pm • sun Tracing Soul (2000), and the experimental narrative Child- Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Cuba); FEBRUARY 9 Play (1996). Huesca Film Festival (Spain); Dresden Filmfest (Germany), FEBRUARY 9 Little Haiti Cultural Complex and others. Little Haiti Cultural Complex 24 25 WE OUT HERE: SHORTS

A collection of short documentary and fiction films from the region and the 69 minutes France, Haiti | 2019 Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living Diaspora that form a patchwork portrait of Caribbean identity. French and Haitian Creole hell of the sugarcane fields. In , 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion with English Subtitles d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a 103 minutes group of new friends—never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable. Director Bertrand Bonello

Yves & Variation Measure Black Composer November/December Jerk Dir. Lydia Cornett Dir. Karen Chapman Trilogy Part I: A Quality Dir. Elenie Chung Dir. Raine Allen-Miller 15 minutes | 2019 9 minutes | 2019 of Light 11 minutes | 2020 10 mins | 2018 USA, Haiti Canada Dir. Madeleine Hunt- Trinidad and Tobago UK Ehrlich | 8 mins | 2018 Bertrand Bonello was born on September 11, 1968 in Nice, USA Alpes-Maritimes, France. He is a director and writer, known for Nocturama (2016), On War (2008) and Saint Laurent 3:30pm • sun (2014). 5:30pm • sun FEBRUARY 9 FEBRUARY 9 Little Haiti Cultural Complex Little Haiti Cultural Complex 26 27 INNA DE YARD

A house filled with old vinyl perches on the hilltops of Kingston. On its UK, Jamaica | 2019 SHO terrace, legendary voices of the golden age of reggae unite: Ken Boothe, English Winston McAnuff, Kiddus I, Cedric Myton, The Viceroys, and Judy Mowatt. 100 minutes They sang with the greats in the backyards of the ghettos, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Jimmy Cliff. Now, Director these legendary musicians want to return to the musical, spiritual, and Peter Webber RTS political roots of their art, and pass them on to younger generations.

Peter Webber is a British director born in 1968. His previous work includes Girl With A Pearl Earring, Hannibal Rising and The Sand and The Rain. 8:00pm • sun FEBRUARY 9 Little Haiti Cultural Complex 28 29 JERK ANOTHER DECADE FI DEM FI DEM II

Winston arrived in London from Jamaica back when the streets Another Decade combines archival and found footage from Fi Dem is the first of a body of work that will be made annually on Fi Dem II reflects on the first National Windrush Day, which were paved with promise. A lifetime later, he’s become the the 1990s, with recently shot 16mm film and video. Focusing on the anniversary of the Empire Windrush docking in the UK on sits in the middle of UK Pride Month and gets lost amongst smiling face around the neighborhood that everyone knows— testimonies and statements made by artists and theorists, the 22nd June 1948. The piece takes the moment of Windrush Day celebrations surrounding its longer-established contemporary. the friendly local jerk chicken shop owner. Today, the mask is work seeks to exhume evidence buried in the shallow grave of to focus on those who move and have been moved. What does this mean for those like the filmmaker, Black British beginning to slip. cultural amnesia of another decade that promised a future still first- and second- generation children and grandchildren of yet to arrive. Windrush migrants who are LGBTQI?

UK, Jamaica | 2019 Jerk screens as part of UK | 2018 Another Decade UK | 2018 Fi Dem screens as part of UK | 2019 Fi Dem II screens as part English We Out Here: Shorts on English screens as part of English Inglan My Inglan: United English of Inglan My Inglan: United 10 minutes Sunday, February 9 at 27 minutes Inglan My Inglan: United 6 minutes Kingdom Shorts on Saturday, 9 minutes Kingdom Shorts on Saturday, 3:30 pm. Kingdom Shorts on February 8 at 6:00pm. February 8 at 6:00pm. Director Director Saturday, February 8 at Director Director Raine Allen-Miller Morgan Quaintance 6:00 pm. Zinzi Minott Zinzi Minott

Raine Allen-Miller is on a mission to make Morgan Quaintance is a London-based Zinzi Minott’s work focuses on the Zinzi Minott’s work focuses on the you smile. Reliably colorful and surprisingly artist, writer and curator. His moving- relationship between dance, bodies and relationship between dance, bodies and subversive, Raine’s film work tackles image work has been shown recently at politics. Strongly identifying as a dancer, politics. Strongly identifying as a dancer, the truth with a wide grin. In 2016, Raine LIMA, Amsterdam, Cubitt Gallery, London; she seeks to complicate the boundaries she seeks to complicate the boundaries directed her breakthrough video Storm for Jerwood Space, London; and London Film of dance and the place of black female of dance and the place of black female Salute – a joyful celebration of immigration Festival. bodies within the form. bodies within the form. in the immediate wake of the Brexit vote.

30 31 WHERE DID THE CEMETERY NOVEMBER/ MEASURE

WE LAND LIGHTENS DECEMBER Nine-year-old Shane seems to be wandering the streets of Toronto alone, but he is on a secret mission that is too important where did we land is an ongoing experiment interrogating A radio transmits that Havana and nearby towns have fallen. In a prestigious all-girls secondary school in Trinidad, the to fail. He has one last thing to do before his mother finds out the effect of images of anti-black violence produced and Hundreds of young people dance in a bunker and a man Michaelmas term seeps with anxiety for all in their last year. that he’s been suspended from school. reproduced in film and media. This iteration takes the form of whispers verses from the Bible at a railway station. Life Cyan, indecisive about her university choices, finds herself a visual essay that explores the complex and often adverse explodes on a night of death. at odds with expectations of where she should go. As exams effects of such images in film as a tool for fostering solidarity. approach, one by one, young girls are vanishing in the school grounds.

UK | 2019 where did we land Cuba | 2019 The Cemetery Trinidad & Tobago | 2019 November/December Canada | 2019 Measure screens as English screens as part of Spanish with English subtitles Lightens screens on English screens as part of We English part of We Out Here: 30 minutes Inglan My Inglan: United 14 minutes Sunday, February 9 at 11 minutes Out Here: Shorts on 9 minutes Shorts on Sunday, Kingdom Shorts on 1:30 pm, preceding the Sunday, February 9 at February 9 at 3:30 pm. Director Saturday, February 8 at Director feature film Timeless Director 3:30 pm. Director Rabz Lansiquot 6:00pm. Luis Alejandro Yero Havana. Elenie Chung Karen Chapman

Rabz Lansiquot is a filmmaker, writer, Luis Alejandro Yero is a Cuban filmmaker Elenie Chung is a filmmaker born and raised Born to Guyanese parents, award-winning curator and DJ. She works alongside Imani whose short films have been awarded in Trinidad and Tobago and currently based filmmaker Karen Chapman is a graduate of Robinson as the artistic and curatorial internationally at festivals such as Mar in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Her films bring the Emily Carr University, an alumna of the Banff collective Languid Hands. del Plata, FICUNAM and Havana. He is a everyday into sublimity and the unfamiliar to Centre, and a Hot Docs Accelerator Fellow. graduate of the Documentary program at the everyday. In 2018, she was named one of Playback EICTV. Magazine’s 5 filmmakers to watch.

32 33 MY MOTHER LANGSTON DREAMS FORECLOSED EARLY YEARS RESENTS ME OF FANCY SAILORS HOME MOVIE

Victoria, an only daughter, tries to decipher her mother’s Before he was a poet, Langston Hughes was a sailor who A memoir of losing a home in Miami, in 1930, becomes the sister Early Years is a portrait of Jamaican-born artistic polymath resentment towards her by parsing through old photographs crossed boundaries in more ways than one. Langston Dreams tale to a foreclosure in 2013. Unable to accept the loss of her Barbara Samuels, featuring an account of her first generation, and new footage. of Fancy Sailors is a film poem that explores questions foreclosed home, the filmmaker’s mother recounts its rooms as diasporic experience in London, and her discovery of the surrounding Hughes’ sexuality as well as his ties to the Black she reminisces. liberatory possibilities for self-actualisation offered by an early Diaspora outside of the US. entry into creative life.

Dominican Republic | 2019 My Mother Resents Me Trinidad & Tobago | 2019 Langston Dreams of USA | 2019 Foreclosed Home UK | 2019 Early Years screens as part Spanish with English subtitles screens on Sunday, English Fancy Sailors screens English Movie screens on English of Inglan My Inglan: United 7 minutes February 9 at 11:00 am, 7 minutes on Sunday, February 9 at 8 minutes Friday, February 7 at 16 minutes Kingdom Shorts on Saturday, preceding the feature 11:00 am, preceding the 5:30 pm, preceding February 8 at 6:00pm. Director film Queer Coolie- Director feature film Queer Coolie- Director the feature film De Lo Director Victoria Linares Villegas tudes. Andre Bagoo tudes. Lisa Danker Mio. Morgan Quaintance

Victoria Linares is a filmmaker based in Andre Bagoo is a Trinidadian poet and Lisa Danker is an experimental and Morgan Quaintance is a London-based the Dominican Republic. Her short film writer, the author of four books of poetry, documentary filmmaker, who primarily artist, writer and curator. His moving- Stay Quiet (2018), was premiered at the Trick Vessels (2012), BURN (2015), Pitch works with Super 8 and 16mm. Her films image work has been shown recently at International Film Festival in Quito (2018) Lake (2017) and a book-length visual poem, explore the intersections of place, history, LIMA, Amsterdam, Cubitt Gallery, London; and has been awarded in several festivals The City of Dreadful Night (2018). and identity. Jerwood Space, London; and London Film for Best Short Film, People’s Choice Award Festival. and also Best Actress.

34 35 A PROTEST, A UNE FORTERESSE VERS LES COLONIES VOLE, VOLE CELEBRATION, A (A FORTRESS) (TOWARDS THE TRISTESSE (FLY, FLY COLONIES) SADNESS) MIXED MESSAGE After the death of their adoptive daughter, a couple goes to Haiti looking for her relatives. There, they meet with a DNA specialist Celebration is protest at Leeds West Indian Carnival. A look at who might have the power of resurrection. When a young girl is found off the Venezuelan coast, a medical Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voice of all forms of authority, this film asks who performs and who has examiner will try to determine the cause of death before the the inhabitants of an island, a Finnish journalist goes there in power. Following Mama Dread’s, a troupe whose carnival theme body is repatriated. order to find a hermit with mysterious powers. Canada, Haiti | 2018 Une forteresse (A is Caribbean immigration to the UK, we are asked to consider French with English subtitles fortress) screens the visibility of black bodies, particularly in rural spaces. Canada, Haiti | 2016 Vers les colonies Canada, Haiti | 2014 Vole, vole tristesse 6 minutes as part of Republics 5 minutes (Towards the French with English subtitles (Fly, Fly Sadness) Reimagined: Myriam Colonies) screens 5 minutes screens as part Director Charles’s Shorts and UK | 2019 A Protest, A Celebration, Director as part of Republics of Republics Miryam Charles Garrett Bradley’s English A Mixed Message screens Miryam Charles Reimagined: Myriam Director Reimagined: Myriam America on Saturday, Miryam Charles 12 minutes as part of Inglan My Inglan: Charles’s Shorts and Charles’s Shorts and February 8 at 1:30 pm. United Kingdom Shorts Garrett Bradley’s Garrett Bradley’s Director on Saturday, February 8 at America on Saturday, America on Saturday, Rhea Storr 6:00 pm. February 8 at 1:30 pm. February 8 at 1:30 pm.

Rhea Storr is an artist filmmaker born in Miryam Charles studied film production at Miryam Charles studied film production at Miryam Charles studied film production at Leeds UK. Through working between 16mm Concordia University. She is the director of Concordia University. She is the director of Concordia University. She is the director of and digital, she makes work concerned the shorts films Fly, Fly Sadness, Toward the shorts films Fly, Fly Sadness, Toward the shorts films Fly, Fly Sadness, Toward with the way in which Black culture is the Colonies, A fortress, Drei Atlas and the Colonies, A fortress, Drei Atlas and the Colonies, A fortress, Drei Atlas and represented. She is the winner of the Second Generation. She produced and Second Generation. She produced and Second Generation. She produced and inaugural Louis Le Prince shot several short films: Danger of Death shot several short films: Danger of Death shot several short films: Danger of Death Prize and won Best Artist Film at Aesthetica (Pour Pénélope), La boutique de forge, Full (Pour Pénélope), La boutique de forge, Full (Pour Pénélope), La boutique de forge, Full Short Film Festival 2019. Love, Bengal Light, and the features A jazz Love, Bengal Light, and the features A jazz Love, Bengal Light, and the features A jazz fable and Nouvelles, Nouvelles. fable and Nouvelles, Nouvelles. fable and Nouvelles, Nouvelles. 36 37 FEU DE BENGALE SECOND DREI ATLAS HIDDEN WORLD (BENGALE LIGHT) GENERATION (THREE ATLAS)

A maid is suspected of murdering her former employer. The elderly Father Amoksi has the gift of contacting the spirit Antilles, 1994. On the eve of the arrival of foreign military forces A few days before her wedding, a young woman learns that Questioned by the police, she will reveal the existence of a world in his remote Maroon village. The rituals must be strictly on the island where they grew up, members of a peaceful group her fiancé is accused of sexual assault. She goes to Haiti to supernatural power. adhered to in order not to get into conflict with the ancestors. kidnap a soldier in order to find information that could forever confront the alleged victim. Amoksi wants to pass his knowledge to his son, but the young alter the political destiny of their country. man isn’t interested. Canada | 2014 Feu de Bengale (Bengale Canada, Haiti | 2019 Second Generation screens Canada, Haiti | 2018 Drei Atlas (Three Atlas) Suriname | 2019 Hidden World French with English subtitles Light) screens as part of English, Haitian Creole as part of Republics German, Haitian Creole screens as part of Republics Auccaans with English subtitles screens as part of 11 minutes Republics Reimagined: 5 minutes Reimagined: Myriam 6 minutes Reimagined: Myriam 32 minutes Dateline Caribbean: Myriam Charles’s Shorts Charles’s Shorts and Garrett Charles’s Shorts and Garrett Documentary Shorts Director and Garrett Bradley’s Director Bradley’s America on Director Bradley’s America on Director on Saturday, February Olivier Godin America on Saturday, Miryam Charles Saturday, February 8 at 1:30 Miryam Charles Saturday, February 8 at 1:30 Miryam Charles 8 at 11:00 am. February 8 at 1:30 pm. pm. pm.

Olivier Godin studied cinema at Collège Miryam Charles studied film production at Miryam Charles studied film production at Kenrich Cairo was born on September Ahuntsic and then at Concordia University. Concordia University. She is the director of Concordia University. She is the director of 26, 1972 as the 5th child in a family of 8 in In 2014, a retrospective of his work the shorts films Fly, Fly Sadness, Toward the shorts films Fly, Fly Sadness, Toward the town of Moengo. The urge to archive was presented at the Cinémathèque the Colonies, A fortress, Drei Atlas and the Colonies, A fortress, Drei Atlas and his culture brought him, as a layman, into québécoise. His cinematic desire led him to Second Generation. She produced and Second Generation. She produced and contact with 8mm video and photography. produce, direct and write, in just a few years, shot several short films: Danger of Death shot several short films: Danger of Death five feature films and numerous short films. (Pour Pénélope), La boutique de forge, Full (Pour Pénélope), La boutique de forge, Full Love, Bengal Light, and the features A jazz Love, Bengal Light, and the features A jazz fable and Nouvelles, Nouvelles. fable and Nouvelles, Nouvelles. 38 39 BATAY LA UNPACKING NEAREST YVES & VARIATION

In Haiti “Batay La” has been ongoing since the slave revolution Unpacking portrays the reality of the undocumented NEIGHBOURS Every day, concierge Yves Deshommes practices his violin that founded the Caribbean nation. Led by anti-imperialist immigration of Dominican women to Puerto Rico. Through the behind the front desk of a Manhattan office building. But during movement Batay Ouvriye, Haitian workers continue the stories of these women, we approach the harsh reality that is Since 2015, at least 16,000 Venezuelans are confirmed to have the hours outside his shift, Yves’s life is revealed to be equal revolutionary struggle. “the crossing”: a trip that begins in a “yola”—in which they are fled to Trinidad and Tobago. Many are unaware of the harsh parts intrepid and inspiring. completely unprotected—and ends in Puerto Rico, the place in reality that is to welcome them. Through the interwoven stories which they hope to fulfill their dream of a better future for their of four sets of characters, Nearest Neighbours explores how family left behind in the Dominican Republic. the asylum seekers navigate their daily lives.

Haiti | 2019 Batay La screens as part Puerto Rico | 2019 Unpacking screens Trinidad & Tobago | 2019 Nearest Neighbours USA, Haiti | 2019 Yves & Variation Haitian Creole of Dateline Caribbean: Spanish with English subtitles as part of Dateline English screens as part of Dateline English screens as part of We with English subtitles Documentary Shorts on 22 minutes Caribbean: 22 minutes Caribbean: Documentary 15 minutes Out Here: Shorts on 25 minutes Saturday, February 8 at Documentary Shorts Shorts on Saturday, February Sunday, February 9 at 11:00 am. Director on Saturday, February Director 8 at 11:00 am. Director 3:30 pm. Director Annabelle Mullen Pacheco 8 at 11:00 am. Rhonda Chan Soo Lydia Cornett Malia Bruker

Malia Bruker is a filmmaker, media Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Rhonda Chan Soo is a Trinidadian Lydia Cornett is a documentary filmmaker artist, and Assistant Professor of Digital Annabelle Mullen Pacheco, a lawyer by documentary filmmaker. Above all, and video producer based in Brooklyn. Media Production at Florida State profession and a producer by vocation, has she loves stories of everyday heroes, Her independent work focuses on artistic University. Working primarily in the realm produced fiction and documentary films. overturning stereotypes, and participating performance and personal histories while of documentary, Bruker’s films skirt the Unpacking is her first short documentary in bringing marginalized voices to the her professional assignments span visual boundaries of non-fiction, drawing from as Director. mainstream. journalism and a wide array of literary artists’ moving image, dance film, and other content. experimental genres. 40 41 TICKETS & ADMISSIONS TICKET PRICES $13 General Admission (+ fees) $5 Secousse: A Sexy-Ass French Caribbean Party Free Festival Talks $150 Weekend Pass

ADMISSION POLICIES Seating for ticketholders is guaranteed up to the advertised screening time. At show time, all empty seats will be sold to the rush line on a first come, first served BLACK COMPOSER AMERICA basis. No refunds or exchanges will be offered to any TRILOGY PART I : A customer who loses their seat due to tardiness. QUALITY OF LIGHT

A Quality of Light draws on the filmmaker’s family’s history to A cinematic omnibus rooted in New Orleans, challenging shed light on untold stories of black women artists. This film the idea of black cinema as a “wave” or “movement in time,” weaves together archival footage and quotes by revolutionary proposing, instead, a continuous thread of achievement. & EVENTS and writer Aimé Césaire with scenes that foreground the effects of aging on the director’s grandmother, who was a prolific composer. Little Haiti Cultural Complex TOWER THEATER 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami, FL 33137 1508 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33135 USA | 2019 Black Composer Trilogy USA | 2019 America screens as part of English Part I : A Quality of Light English Republics Reimagined: Myriam 8 minutes screens as part of We Out 29 minutes Charles’s Haitian Shorts and Here: Shorts on Sunday, Garrett Bradley’s America on IPC Artspace nnamdi gallery Director February 9 at 3:30 pm. Director Saturday, February 8 at 1:30 pm. 225 NE 59th Street, Miami, FL 33137 6505 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33138 Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Garrett Bradley VENUES

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich makes work Garrett Bradley works in a variety of LA ESQUINA DE LA FAMA about the private lives and worlds of black platforms most of which explore socio- 1380 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33135 women. Her practice is rooted in archival economic injustice, human conflict, research and field research, which then historical reflection, place-based adventure, gets translated through a writing process, and the beauty that is plainly in view. and then finally a filmmaking process that includes narrative, documentary and experimental film technique. 42 43 THIRD Associate Director, HORIZON Operations Robert Colom

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