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Meet the Caribbean women telling stories through film, in the region & Diaspora.
Last updated – March 8, 2021
Published in alphabetical order
Source: Ron Fanfair
Gabrielle Blackwood
Jamaica ▴ 🇯🇲
Denis – Interspersed with imaginative recreations, Denis is a touching, uplifting story about a man battling Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It’s a testament to the dogged and indomitable character of the human spirit.
Source: Kweli TV
Shirley Bruno
Haiti ▴ 🇭🇹
An Excavation of Us – The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon their boat traveling through the mysterious cave named after Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution. It is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history.
Watch An Excavation of Us.
Watch Tezen on Studio Anansi / Kweli TV
Source: Hart House
Katia Café-Fébrissy
Canada/Guadeloupe ▴ 🇨🇦 🇬🇵
Joselie lives in Guadeloupe, F.W.I. When she inherits 5 acres of land from her late father, the former seamstress becomes a farmer at age 48. When Joselie discovers that her land is contaminated and that she cannot grow anything on it, she refuses to give up and is determined to save her legacy and live off her land.
Rhonda Chan Soo
Trinidad & Tobago ▴ 🇹🇹
Nearest Neighbours explores how these refugees and asylum-seekers navigate their environments daily and work to move their lives forward amidst their many challenges, including rampant xenophobia and a lack of legal rights due to the absence of local refugee legislation.
Watch Nearest Neighbours.
Source: Vimeo
Nadia Charlery
Martinique ▴ 🇲🇶
A man is alone in a wasteland when a phone in a booth rings. He hesitates but finally picks up the phone. An unknown woman is talking, mistaking him for someone else
Source: GBHI
Gabri Christa
Curaçoa ▴ 🇨🇼
Un Dia Kada Momentu – A portrait of the engaging Curaçao yoga master Leo Floridas. When he is introduced to yoga in the 1960s, he discovers that he is more than his blackness and becomes a yoga teacher and health activist in his local island community.
Maya Cozier
Trinidad & Tobago ▴ 🇹🇹
Shan is a portrait of a young Trinidadian dancer at the Universoul Circus, which tours the USA.
Watch Shan
Watch Short Drop on Studio Anansi TV / Kweli TV
Watch She Paradise
Source: Mr. Jane and Finch
Sonia Godding Togobo
Haiti/Canada ▴ 🇭🇹 🇨🇦
Adopted ID uncovers the extraordinary journey of Judith Craig as she bravely returns to Haiti to find her birth parents.
Melanie Grant
Barbados ▴ 🇧🇧
A young Spiritual Baptist undergoes the mourning ritual to seek guidance to suppress her desires for the woman she loves.
Watch The Book of Jasmine
Source: Black Women Directors
Lisa Harewood
Barbados ▴ 🇧🇧
Auntie – When a barrel arrives from London bearing an unwelcome parcel, a caregiver in Barbados makes a hasty decision that risks destroying her special bond with a beloved child.
Source: Timehri Film Festival
Charysse Tia Harper
US/Trinidad & Tobago ▴ 🇺🇸 🇹🇹
The Other Side of Carnival is a 45-minute documentary that explores Carnival's social and economic impact on Trinidad & Tobago.
Watch The Other Side of Carnival on Kweli TV / Studio Anansi TV
Source: Martine Jean
Martine Jean
United States of America/Haiti ▴ 🇺🇸 🇭🇹
Purgatorio is a short fictionalized narrative that illustrates the plight of those who were and continue to be unceremoniously thrown across the border into Haiti, with no regard for the law and due process.
Kafi Kareem
Trinidad & Tobago ▴ 🇹🇹
Big Man Dan - In The Ninja, Dan comes to the rescue of his wife Sheila when she spots a cockroach in their bathroom. But when the cockroach flies, Dan loses all sense and his fear of the flying roach leads him to imagine that the roach is a kungfu master who he must fight with all his might to defeat. How will it end?
Davina Lee
St. Lucia ▴ 🇱🇨
Gina and Gerald secretly cast love spells on each other. Now, they are unhappily together, but unable to leave the relationship, because of their spells. Can they undo what they’ve done?
Watch The Knot on Studio Anansi TV / Kweli TV
Source: Color Web Mag
Sharon Lewis
Canada/Trinidad & Tobago/Jamaica ▴ 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇯🇲
Chains is the story of a woman who is starved for beauty in her desolate underground community of scavengers, in a dystopian future, and risks death to grow a flower.
Photo Source: T&T Newsday
Asha Lovelace
Martinique ▴ 🇲🇶
A gambler concocts a risky plan to escape to the promise and fantasy of America. Prepared to leave everything behind, including his newly-found romance with the village beauty, he sets out for his final destination.
Source: YouTube
Maharaki
Martinique ▴ 🇲🇶
A teacher asks her class, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” While his joyful classmates respond, Tom, a quiet 10-year-old boy, slips away.
Source: Twitter
Karen Martinez
Trinidad & Tobago/UK ▴ 🇹🇹 🇬🇧
After Mas tells the story of a love that flourishes under the cover of darkness during the festival of J’ouvert on the streets of Port-of-Spain
Watch After Mas on Studio Anansi TV / Caribbean Tales TV
Source: Belize Film Festival
Juliette McCawley
Trinidad & Tobago▴ 🇹🇹
One Good Deed tells the story of 10-year-old Johnny who encounters Douens – mischievous spirits of children that haunt the forest – when he’s left alone to look after his brother one day.
Source: Mariette Monpierre
Mariette Monpierre
Guadeloupe ▴ 🇬🇵
Between 2 Shores chronicles two Dominican women, who left everything behind, including their own children, to move to Guadeloupe in hope of a better life. More than ten years later, they still fight every day to bring their children across to their new home. Two women, two shores, one dream.
Co-directed by Christelle Théophile
Source: Loop News Caribbean
Shari Petti
Trinidad & Tobago ▴ 🇹🇹
Sorf Hair explores the natural hair experience in Trinidad & Tobago, as people from all walks of life and with different hair textures reveal their stories and challenges.
Watch Sorf Hair on Studio Anansi TV / Kweli TV
Danielle Russell
Jamaica ▴ 🇯🇲
This City of Mine – A young woman struggles to navigate Kingston's public transportation system and some harassing encounters, all while trying to make it to her new job on time.
Watch on Studio Anansi TV / Kweli TV
Source: Loop Barbados
Alison Saunders-Franklyn
Barbados/Trinidad & Tobago ▴ 🇧🇧 🇹🇹
Panama Dreams transports us on the modern-day search of the filmmaker for descendants of an ancestor who left Barbados in the early 1900s to build the Panama Canal – one of the seven wonders of the modern world. She uncovers the complex history of that migration and troubling issues of race and discrimination that faced the West Indians on the Canal Zone and their descendants to the present day.
Source: Frances-Anne Solomon
Frances-Anne Solomon
Trinidad & Tobago/Canada/UK ▴ 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Six Black men, all patrons at Miss G’s Caribbean TakeAway Restaurant, form an ill-fated support group in an attempt to salvage their broken spirits and besieged community, following the local shooting death of a young child.
Source: Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival
Ina Sotirova
Jamaica▴ 🇯🇲
In this animated short, on a utopia Caribbean island inhabited by the survivors of a slave shipwreck, a young priestess must overcome her insecurities, defy tradition and step into her power to save her people from impending danger.
Mary Wells
Jamaica/Canada ▴ 🇯🇲 🇨🇦
In an off-beat nuanced film, Rocksy, (Christopher 'Johnny' Daley) a small-time hustler, journeys into chaos to steal a car while his lady friend Rosie (Camille Small Peart) hangs a watercolor painting in their modest room and dreams of peace.
