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csiff2022 official selection artists

Gerelle Forbes is a creative arts specialist with over two decades of experience.  (Trinidad and Tobago heritage.)

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      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.

      A RING: The Short Film

      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.


      American Made

      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. 

      Carpe Diem

      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.

      Clean Teeth Wednesdays

      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.

      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.

      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.

      fuego

      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.” 

      Goombay Kids

      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. 

      Harlem Love

      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

      I F@$%ING QUIT

       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?  

      Lifeline

      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.

      Light and Darkness

      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.


      LOKO

      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

      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.

      Olympic Village 2028

       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.

      Paulette Bolton: Birmingham's Phenomenal Woman

      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.

      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.

      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.

      Sunlight Around the Corner: The Golden Sparrow

      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. 

      The Feeling of Before

      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.


      The Healing

       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.


      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.

      THE UNLOCKING

      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.

      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.

      TUFF GUY

      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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