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’70: Remembering a Revolution (2010)
Feature Documentary Historical | Trinidad and Tobago
A riveting chronicle of the Black Power uprising that took place in Trinidad and Tobago in 1970.
4AM (2011)
Short Art / Experimental | Trinidad and Tobago
Spoken-word poet Muhammad Muwakil narrates one of his compositions, about life in the Belmont suburb of Port of Spain. Arresting images of the streets of Belmont during the early hours of the morning accompany his recital.
A Bess Pelau (2012)
Short Narrative Comedy | Trinidad and Tobago
Sent abroad by his mother to 'grow up', Sean quickly realizes how much he has depended on her when he is faced with the prospect of making his first meal.
A People’s Art (2019)
Featurette Documentary | London, UK
A cultural journey into London’s Notting Hill Carnival
Art Connect (2014)
Feature Documentary
Art Connect reveals how creativity has inspired and changed the lives of "at risk" kids living in the disenfranchised and volatile area of Laventille, in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Arts of Conflict (2019)
Feature Documentary | London, UK
The discourse of Notting Hill Carnival
As I Was Going To St. Ives
Featurette Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Three British born artists living in Trinidad, the United States and England, linked by their relationships with the St. Ives School, discuss their use of text in making the visual image.
Avocado and Zaboca (2014)
Short Narrative Animation | Trinidad and Tobago
Bars on Bars (Feature-length Documentary in early development)
Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Between Two Shores (2017)
| Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe
Johanna and Cristina, natives of the Dominican Republic, left their homeland in search of better lives in Guadeloupe.
Black Hair (2018)
Short Documentary Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
The struggles of having black hair.
Breaking the Cycle (2018)
Feature Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Moving from victim to survivor, Camika, a single mother of seven, shares her personal story of how she got the strength and voice to stop the cycle of domestic abuse in her home.
Caribbean Footsteps (2013)
| London, UK
An arts & culture based series about the Caribbean diaspora in Europe
Caribbean Girl NYC (2017)
Narrative Comedy, Drama | New York City
An original comedy series following the life of Isabelle, a 22 year old aspiring actress, fresh off the plane from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Caribbean Skin African Identity (2010)
Featurette Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Exploring the idea of African identity in the Caribbean - has it changed?
Carnival Messiah (2017)
Feature Documentary | UK
Carnival Messiah is a radical re-invention of Georg Freidrich Handel’s oratorio ‘Messiah’ for large scale stage and theatre.
City on a Hill (2015)
Featurette Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
City on the Hill is a look at the history of the communities erected on the hillside slopes of Laventille. The film examines the evolution of the chequered relationship between the landscape and its inhabitants, as well as selected aspects of Laventille’s architecture.
Coolie Pink and Green (2009)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
An experimental documentary exploring the aesthetics of an Indo-Caribbean population through colour, song and dance.
Dai Ailian (Dance) (2013)
Short Documentary Biography | Trinidad and Tobago
Diva – Enemy of the People (2016)
Feature Documentary | Saint Lucia, UK, France
A tale of fashion and rebellion in paradise
Drink (2013)
Short Narrative Drama | Trinidad and Tobago, U.K.
An undocumented immigrant and his son are smuggled into London, hiding a desperate secret.
Dying Swan (2016)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Peter Minshall returns to mas....
Elza (2011)
Feature Narrative Drama | Guadeloupe
A young Parisian woman of Caribbean descent returns to her native island of Guadeloupe looking for the father she has never known.
Father LSD (Feature-length black comedy in development)
Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
Fragile (2016)
Feature Documentary | Sweden, Liberia, Boliva, India
Fragile is a documentary feature film that shows how the place where we are born determines our lives. In 2005 and 2006 we filmed the birth and the first year of life of four girls from four continents.
Friends of Soldier (Feature-length documentary in development)
Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
From Gangsta to Pastor (2019)
Featurette Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
The documentary chronicles the life of Gary Grant - once a gangster and now a pastor - who works to help the community he once hurt.
Get Free (2019)
Featurette Narrative Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
Grand Rising (Feature-length black comedy in early development)
Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
Her Shorts (2020)
Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago, Curaçao, USA, UK
A Collection of Short FIlms by Caribbean Women
Hinkson (2013)
Feature Documentary Biography | Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidadian Donald 'Jackie' Hinkson talks about his life's work and demonstrates his techniques.
Hit Me With Music (2012)
Feature Documentary | Jamaica
Documentary about the origins and impact of Dancehall music and dances in Jamaica
How Many Times? (2014)
Short Art / Experimental Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
I Don’t Call It Ghetto (2020)
Featurette Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Trying to be a part of the solution, Onika works hard to build trust in her role as a police officer.
Immune (2020)
Narrative Drama, Sciencefiction | United Kingdom
In a world scourged by a terrible disease, a healthy mother-to-be must escape the clutches of an authoritarian government or risk losing her life and that of her unborn child.
Jab in the Dark (2013)
Short Narrative Drama, Thriller | Trinidad and Tobago
The discovery of a secret diary draws a drug addicted security guard into a world of demons and a struggle for inner redemption.
Jab! The Blue Devils of Paramin (2006)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
The district of Paramin, at Carnival time sheds its rural languor and erupts into an inferno of bluepainted ‘jabs’ or devils.
Julia and Joyce: Two Stories of Two Dance Pioneers (2010)
Feature Documentary Biography | Trinidad and Tobago
Julia and Joyce: Two Stories of Two Dance Pioneers, marks important dance heritage of Trinidad and Tobago and the world, as told through the fascinating histories of two Trinidad and Tobago dance pioneers, now in their seventies. Both Julia Edwards and Joyce Kirton tell their respective stories, full of challenges, humour and triumphs.
Knockabout (2013)
Short Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
The past can lead to an old rift...
La Gaita (2012)
Feature Documentary
A story of two very different brothers.
Lady in the River (2015)
Short Narrative Fantasy | Trinidad and Tobago
Haunted by the ghostly image of a woman, a young man suffers a nervous breakdown.
Last Street (2019)
Feature Documentary | Jamaica
Violence in Jamaica is always portrayed as drug related, this film unveils a real truth which links a culture of violence to masculinity and shooting guns.
Leftovers (1994)
Short Documentary | Canada
A girl, her mother, a turkey and a knife.
Lifted (2019)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Set against frank conversation about diversity in Trinidad and Tobago, 'Lifted' follows a day in the lives of a refugee family as they journey to a Moko Jumbie (stilt-walking) class.
Minutes to Midnite (2009)
Narrative Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | Trinidad and Tobago
Once upon a time there was Snake, this is how his life changed in a matter of minutes
Moving Parts (2017)
Feature Narrative Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
Zhenzhen is smuggled to the island of Trinidad where her brother Wei works construction.
My Father’s Land (2016)
Feature Documentary
Papa Jah, a humble Haitian gardener, has lived in the Bahamas for 40 years. As his marginalized community, faces a strict new deportation policy and growing xenophobia in the Bahamas, he returns to Haiti, to reunite with his 103 years old father and the land he left behind.
Nearest Neighbours (2019)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Venezuelan refugees move to Trinidad and Tobago with hopes of bettering their own lives and that of their families, only to find an unwelcoming environment and the uncertainty of their future while caught in a legal limbo.
No Bois Man No Fraid (2013)
Feature Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Two internationally certified, multi-disciplined, Trinidadian martial artists re-discover their roots in the unique Trinidadian martial art of Kalinda or Stickfighting, and are accepted for mentorship by living legends of the art, as they enter the potentially lethal arena of the Gayelle which to them is a ring of liberation!
No Soca No Life (2012)
Short Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
One Good Deed (2010)
Short Narrative Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
A young country boy has an encounter with a mythical creature in the woods.
Oso (2020)
Feature Documentary | Spain
OSO is a journey through the story of a pop icon told by its own protagonists, the Tous family, the most famous jewellers in Spain.
Paddlin’ Spirit (2016)
Short Documentary | Jamaica
In her work the controversial Jamaican artist Laura Facey explores the indescribable cruelty of slavery, but also the resilient nature of the human being.
Paradise Lost (2015)
Featurette Documentary Historical | Trinidad and Tobago
Carnival artist Peter Minshall tells the story of the design and construction of Paradise Lost, his first masquerade band for the Trinidad and Tobago carnival in 1976.
Plain Sight (2017)
Featurette Drama
Forged from the love of... money.
Play the Devil (2015)
Feature Narrative Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
An encounter with a successful businessman derails the plans set by his family...
Prepared to Fight (2012)
Feature Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
The rise of Tubal Uriah Butler and his contribution to the development of the Labour Movement in Trinidad and Tobago.
Public Spaces (2012)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
An exploration of the architectural work of Colin Laird
Quiet Revolution (2016)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Quiet Revolution follows a group of everyday heroes who aim to give voice to permaculture ("the quiet revolution") in Trinidad and Tobago
Rain (2008)
Feature Narrative Drama | Bahamas
A young Bahamian girl, Rain, boards a local mail boat from Ragged Island and sets sail for Nassau. Stranded in an unfamiliar environment that fills her with dread and confronted by a mother she has never known, Rain searches desperately to find her own place in the world.
Riding Bull Cart (2015)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
Riding Bull Cart captures a time-capsule moment, and depicts a symbiotic and pure relationship of human and animal (non-human) working together.
Sally’s Way (2015)
Feature Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
Sometimes you find a way. Sometimes the way finds you. A 12-year-old orphan feels determined to have a say in her destiny, despite life's sudden changes.
Salty Dog (2017)
Short Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
When the rug is pulled from under his feet, a savvy old salt, must navigate the stormy waters of his relationship with his estranged son.
Same Old Shit (2018)
Short Narrative Comedy, Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
When a tempered rock icon is confronted with an unlikely souvenir from his outrageous past, he is enticed to return to his true nature.
Sampson’s Heart (2019)
Short Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
A young widower haunted by the death of his wife has an en unexpected visitor from his past, which forces him to face his present.
Sans Souci (2009)
Short Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
Seventeen Colours and a Sitar (2010)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
A visual and sonic Caribbean feast featuring British born painter Rex Dixon and Trinidadian sitarist Mungal Patasar.
Shan (2014)
Short Documentary Biography | Trinidad and Tobago, USA
Shan Fernandez is a Trinidadian dancer, trained in the art of Limbo dance. She performs in front of international audiences three times daily as a member of the Universal circus.
Short Drop (2017)
Short Narrative Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
An elderly man gets mistaken for a taxi driver while on a drive through the busy streets of Port-of-Spain. What follows is a long day of reckoning with memories, friendships and revelations.
Siege (2008)
Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago
The documentary also recounts the Army’s ferocious counter-attack against the Muslimeen in Trinidad and Tobago
Smallman: The World My Father Made (2013)
Short Documentary Biography | Trinidad and Tobago
Smallman is Richard Mark Rawlins’ personal exploration of the real and imagined worlds that his father, Kenwyn, made, in the workshop beneath their house.
Songs of Redemption (2013)
Feature Documentary | Jamaica, Spain
'Songs of Redemption' captures the moving story of redemption and rehabilitation of inmates of the General Penitentiary in Kingston, Jamaica.
Temple in the Sea (2017)
Short Narrative Animation | Trinidad and Tobago
A young girl is seeking - answers to questions that are relevant to her own life, as well as questions inspired by Siewdass' life.
The Apartment, About Last Night (2015)
Short Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
The Cutlass (2016)
Feature Narrative Drama, Thriller | Trinidad and Tobago
Set in Trinidad, a weekend getaway turns to horror as a young woman finds herself in the grasp of a disturbed abductor.
The Deliverer (2021)
Feature Narrative Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
After his son is kidnapped, a Trinidadian fisherman brokers a drug deal with a Venezuelan refugee to traffic cocaine to rescue his son and save his village from a corrupt government official, in exchange for helping her find asylum for her family.
The heat of May (Feature-length period drama in early development)
Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
The Last Kill (2016)
Feature Narrative Thriller | London, UK
Crimes of retribution cannot stay secret forever.
The MidNite Affair (2011)
Short Narrative Drama, Fantasy | Trinidad and Tobago
The roaring 70s (In development)
Narrative | Trinidad and Tobago
Three Minutes (2018)
Short Narrative Comedy | Trinidad and Tobago
A couple get more than they bargained for in three minutes.
Tickle Me Rich (2012)
Short Narrative Comedy | Trinidad and Tobago
Got horned? Get even.
Towards Mecca (2019)
Featurette Documentary Religious | Guadeloupe, Martinique
An intimate exploration of the life of the Muslim Community in the French West Indies through the testimonies of women and men formerly Christians and now converted to Islam.
Trafficked (2015)
Feature Narrative Drama | Trinidad and Tobago
Three friends on vacation on a Caribbean island are seduced by a wealthy stranger, and become pawns in a deadly game.
Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast? (2011)
Feature Documentary
'Why do Jamaicans Run so Fast' reveals how athletics and music have become ways to escape from poverty and violence in Jamaica.