72 Hours: A Brooklyn Love Story

Our friends over at Reel Works Teen Filmmaking are doing some great work. They’ve been supporting emerging media makers for years and now they are taking advantage of the crowd-source funding model to essentially make a crowd-sourced feature film – ambitious and wonderful! Here is what one of the young filmmakers had to say about …

God Might Love Uganda, But He Hates You

Someone once said there’s a thin line between love and hate. (I think it was Martin Lawrence? Right? Yeah, let’s go with that.) Roger Ross Williams paints a riveting picture of that thin line in his beautiful, lyrical documentary “God Loves Uganda” – also known as how I spent my Sunday afternoon. It’s great to …

Auntie

AUNTIE is a middle-aged seamstress and respected caregiver in her rural Barbadian community. 12-year-old KERA is her latest ward and a special child to whom she has grown uncharacteristically close. Seven years after Kera’s mother emigrates to England in search of a better life, Auntie is confronted with the day she long dreaded when the …

Auntie from Barbados: Women and the Caribbean International Family

Lisa Harewood is a socially motivated artist whose short film, “Auntie,” invites contemplation of Caribbean life, immigration, extended matriarchal families and those left behind. Her debut effort as a writer and director, Harewood’s film is the result of a last- minute decision to enter the Commonwealth Foundation’s development scheme. More than a lark, Harewood said …

Auntie

AUNTIE is a middle-aged seamstress and respected caregiver in her rural Barbadian community. 12-year-old KERA is her latest ward and a special child to whom she has grown uncharacteristically close. Seven years after Kera’s mother emigrates to England in search of a better life, Auntie is confronted with the day she long dreaded when the …

Passage

A
 twenty-
year-
old 
Haitian 
woman, 
Sandrine 
and
 her 
brother
 thirteen
-year-
old 
brother
 Etienne 
are 
being 
transported
 from 
Haiti
 to 
the
 Bahamas
 in 
the 
hold 
of 
a 
dilapidated
 wooden
 vessel
 filled 
with 
sever al
other 
immigrants
 in
 search
 of 
a
 better
 life.
 During 
the
 journey, 
a
young
 woman
 gets
 violently 
ill. 
A 
rule 
of 
the
 sea 
in 
transportin g
persons
 dictates
 …

Passage

A
 twenty-
year-
old 
Haitian 
woman, 
Sandrine 
and
 her 
brother
 thirteen
-year-
old 
brother
 Etienne 
are 
being 
transported
 from 
Haiti
 to 
the
 Bahamas
 in 
the 
hold 
of 
a 
dilapidated
 wooden
 vessel
 filled 
with 
several 
other 
immigrants
 in
 search
 of 
a
 better
 life.
 During 
the
 journey, 
a
young
 woman
 gets
 violently 
ill. 
A 
rule 
of 
the
 sea 
in 
transportin g
persons
 dictates
 …

A Modern Day Middle Passage

Bodies washed ashore on white sand beaches. Immigrants’ corpses littering the shores of paradise. These are images Bahamian Filmmaker Kareem Mortimer recalls of his youth. “I had always known about this” Mortimer said in a recent interview for NBPC’s AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. Mortimer said he remembers hearing, night after night, the reports as …