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Gerelle Forbes is a creative arts specialist with over two decades of experience. (Trinidad and Tobago heritage.)
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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.
Director: RayMartell Moore
Writer: Monique A. Robinson
Narrative Short Film
Origin: United States
Completion: 2018
LOGLINE:
After a rocky run of a relationship, Shango and Oya, meet to amicably end things; only to discover that neither of them are who they claim to be.
Director:
Tiffany Nichole Greene
Writer:
Christin Eve Cato
Narrative Short Film
Origin: United States
Completion: 2022
Synopsis:
Edwards and Perez are book-binders at a U.S. correctional facility. As Edwards tries to convince Perez to join him on a strike against extremely low wages, Perez is faced with the dilemma of delivering the news to his distraught mate that he has been offered a promising position. New revelations are made as they talk about the injustices of the prison system that perpetuate modern day slavery.
Director/Writer:
Tajha Winkle
Short Animation
Origin: Jamaica
Completion: 2021
Synopsis:
Two College-aged Mango roommates struggle to understand how the other finds meaning in life during an apocalypse.
Director/Writer:
Catherine Bruhier
Narrative Short Film
Origin: Canada
Completion: 2013
LOGLINE:
Told through the eyes of Rachel, an African Canadian six-year-old, the story takes a comedic look at an unlikely group of 1st grade students who stage a secret revolt against the monthly hated fluoride treatments.
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.
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.
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.”
Director:
Lanthro Monroe
Writers:
Marlena Leonard & Kristina Rostad
Web Series/Pilot
Origin: Bahamas
Completion: 2021
SYNOPSIS:
Magic breathes life between myth and reality on the Goombay Kids island adventures! The three best friends find themselves transported back in time to 1720 and captured by pirates, run into magical folklore experiences at Camp Goombay, discover the lost city of Atlantis, learn the legend of Junkanoo and all while learning about their culture and the island of The Bahamas.
Director/Writer:
Rich Joseph
Experimental Short
Origin: United States
Completion: 2017
LOGLINE:
Set in the 1920's a young couple meet and their relationship is instantly tested. The couple must find the strength to stay together, ultimately deciding their fate at the altar
Director/Writer:
Ronissha Marksman
Web Series/Pilot
Origin: United States
Completion: 2021
LOGLINE:
How far will Tiffany go after getting bad news from Martha during their meeting? Is anyone safe?
Director/Writer:
Timothy Joseph
Narrative Short Film
Origin: Trinidad and Tobago
Completion: 2022
LOGLINE:
An overconfident young university graduate working at a suicide call center, encounters a caller that not only challenges her competence but resurrects memories long forgotten.
Director/Writer:
Lee-San Gayle
Narrative Short
Origin: Jamaica
Completion: 2021
SYNOPSIS:
A man recounts his childhood memories of surviving a thunderstorm as he reflects deeply on how his mother inspired him to see the beauty of darkness, and faith in God.
Director/Writer:
Angelina Villapiano
Narrative Short Film
Origin: Puerto Rico
Completion: 2022
LOGLINE:
A modern Latina city girl goes to extreme lengths to connect to her Indigenous island heritage
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.
Director:
Dwayne LeBlanc
Short Documentary
Origin: United States
Completion: 2020
SYNOPSIS:
Olympic Village 2028 is a film about South Los Angeles, a historically Black neighborhood with deep ties to the Great Migration and the modern American story.
Director/Writer:
Tonya Joy Bolton
Short Documentary
Origin: United Kingdom
Completion: 2017
SYNOPSIS: A compelling & heartfelt story about Paulette Bolton, an extraordinary nurse who single-handedly revolutionized the National Health Service and improved the quality of patient care in Birmingham UK. What makes Paulette’s achievements all the more remarkable is her selfless compassion for others and amazing strength of character to survive against enormous odds.
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.
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.
Directors:
Daymé Arocena, Pablo Dewin
Writer:
Daymé Arocena
Experimental Short
Origin: United States
Completion: 2021
SYNOPSIS:
Experimental narrative short film inspired by the lives testimonies of the front-line community health workers in Richmond, Virginia, which tells the story of a woman who manages to break by herself with the cycle of marginalization to which she seemed predestined. The film was conceptualized to personify these stories and activated by several art forms: dance, music, oral narration and body paint.
Director/Writer: Lee-San Gayle
Student Short
Origin: Jamaica
Completion: 2021
SYNOPSIS:
The everyday activities of a lonely female poet are assigned deeper meaning when she completes her routine while delivering a poem about the pain of living during a COVID-19 lockdown.
Director/Writer:
Jean Lodescar, Jr.
Narrative Short Film
Origin: United States
Completion: 2020
LOGLINE:
No matter how much time has passed, we all need healing from traumatic life experiences.
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.
Director/Writer:
Lee-San Gayle
Narrative Student Short
Origin: Jamaica
Completion: 2021
SYNOPSIS:
An experimental film about a girl's journey into a dream world where she is confronted by a manifestation of her fears as she tries to escape her grief and sadness.
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.
Director/Writer:
Yannis Sainte-Rose
Narrative Short Film
Origin: Martinique
Completion: 2021
SYNOPSIS:
Following an inappropriate remark towards a woman, a young man finds himself plunged into a parallel world where he will undergo in a day all a series of remarks and micro-attacks usually reserved for women.
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