AfroPoP: The Abominable Crime (Producer Chat)
Filmmaker Micah Fink takes a moment to discuss issues covered in his film “The Abominable Crime,” a documentary documenting the lives of gay activists dealing with violence and discrimination in Jamaica.
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After 180 Days
After 180 Days: Hartsville, a panel discussion will explore in more detail the vision for Hartsville, how Sonoco Products Company is making a difference, and how other school districts can learn from the Hartsville experience as well as look at recent developments in statewide public policy and education issues that need to come together to …
Small Man
John Ambrose Kenwyn Rawlins was an ordinary man of modest means. He was a good father, grandfather and husband; an obedient public servant. Yet the most vivid part of his life was lived in was a small workshop beneath his house. In there, at the end of his workday, he made things. From simple push …
A Marriage of Inconvenience
A young man tries to convince his very religious parents to stand by his side on his wedding day. Director FRANKLIN JIN RHO, Written by DERRICK D. PETE, Produced by MILES MAKER with Producer DERRICK D. PETE. A collaboration of the National Minority Consortia and Film Independent’s Project Involve. Check out more shorts like this …
Vivre
A teacher asks his pupils what they want to do when they grow up. While his classmates answer lightly and with great fun, Tom a quiet 10-year-old boy slips away. When his turn comes to speak, Tom embarks himself upon a striking monologue. With passion, humor and bewildering maturity he describes three possible life choices …
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 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 …
Kwa Mashu Voices: Youth in Politics
The democratic South Africa has seen a lot of shift in cultural paridgms. One of the things we have come to accept is the idea of youth in leadership positions. Introduced to the politics of the country by those who used his family home as a hide out from the apartheid government and police Linda …
Kwa Mashu Voices: The Comedian
In a province seen as conservative, the youth has taken control of their destiny. The freedom to chose comes from a negative position of parents who can’t educate their children thus cannot dictate their career choices. In this breakaway young people have taken on careers previously seen as less important and often labelled useless. Mondli …
Kwa Mashu Voices: The Forgotten Guerilla
South Africa’s apartheid violence in the 80’ forced young men and women to sacrifice their youth to join military training in exile. Organisations like African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress had set-up military bases in countries like Zambia, Angola, Tanzania etc. This was to prepare for the armed struggle for the liberation of their …