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a glimpse into csiff '22

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CSIFF2022 Award winners

CSIFF 2022 - AWARD WINNING FILM TRAILERS

BEST DIRECTOR

LOVENA 

Director/Writer: Olivier Sagne

Narrative Short Film 

Origin: French Guiana 

Completion: 2020 

 
LOGLINE: 

Lovena becomes French Guiana’s chess champion. An opportunity and a burden for an illegal Haitian immigrant teenager.

BEST FILM/BEST LEAD PERFORMER

SINS OF THE FATHER 

Director/Writer: 

Azriel Bahadoor 

Narrative Short Film 

Origin: Trinidad and Tobago

Completion: 2022


SYNOPSIS: 

A priest has his devotion put to the test, as he listens to the confession of an ex convict; one that was incarcerated at a prison he visited years ago.

BEST ANIMATION

RISE UP! 

Director/Writer: 

Grace Stelk 

Short Animation 

Origin: Netherlands

Completion: 2021


Synopsis: 

A bird who lived happily in the jungle has been kidnapped, abused and captured. When he realizes his fate he has to make a choice. Give up or Rise up.

Best music video

A Better Tomorrow 

Directors: Gerelle Forbes, Mark Loquan 

Writer: Gerelle Forbes 

Music Video 

Origin: Trinidad and Tobago 

Completion: 2022  


SYNOPSIS: 

A better tomorrow is created through the choices we make for ourselves, through the power of the mind, our talent, or how we choose to lift up others.

best screenwriter

FUEGO 

 Director/Writer: Edwin FrankO 

Narrative Short Film 

Origin: United States 

Completion: 2022  


LOGLINE: 

Giovanni, a workaholic bartender shares a story with his bar patrons Joel and Eddie, questioning whether he found his late Father’s “fuego.” 

Audience Choice

Entre Puerto Rico y Richmond Women in Resistance Shall Not Be Moved 

Director:

 Alicia Diaz 

Writer:

 Patricia Herrera 

Experimental Short 

Origin: United States 

Completion:2020  


Synopsis: 

This dance film combines biography, poetry, and ritual with the energy of live performance to bridge stories of resistance and liberation, honoring Black women tobacco workers in Richmond, VA and Puerto Rican tobacco factory readers and anti-colonial activists Dominga de La Cruz Becerril and Luisa Capetillo.

best web series

FAB 4 AND THE SILENT RETREAT

Director: 

Peter Sagnia 

Writer: 

Diane De La Haye 

Web Series/Pilot 

Origin: Jamaica 

Completion: 2021  


Logline: Four feisty Caribbean friends in their 40s who are struggling with a myriad of issues, consider a Silent Retreat in Nepal.

BEST DOCUMENTARY

THE JILL OF THE TRADE

Director/Writer:  

Charysse Tia Harper

Short Documentary

Origin: 

United Kingdom

Completion: 2021


SYNOPSIS:

THE JILL OF THE TRADE introduces five women who speak about their successes and hardships when working in male-dominated professions, including one of the few female mayors in Afghanistan.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

THE WHISPER OF THE LEAVES 

Director/Writer:

Amir Aether Valen 

Experimental Short 

Origin: Cuba 

Completion: 2021  


SYNOPSIS: 

A meditation on the effect of time through the perspective of three elderly land workers living in a small community in the outskirts of Bauta, Cuba.

award ceremony

Magaly Colimon-Christopher and Alexandra Foucard - 

Ceremony Co-Hosts

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