a glimpse into csiff '22
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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