The founder of the inaugural Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival and his friend, director of programming, preview this week’s event.
Jeffers, a Barbados native, musician and former journalist who founded the festival and also serves as its artistic director, and London-based Trinidadian Ali, a veteran programmer who has worked at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and Toronto, believe the time is right for Third Horizon and its particular focus.
The event runs from September 29-October 2 and opens with Guetty Felin’s Ayiti Mon Amour (pictured). All screenings will take place at the O Cinema in Wynwood, Miami.
What’s the idea behind Third Horizon?
Jason Jeffers (from a note previously sent to Ali): Third Horizon came about from this sense, as a kid, that I had of the stories of the Caribbean and Third World being regarded as supplementary to those of the First World. We were bit players in world affairs and in...
Jeffers, a Barbados native, musician and former journalist who founded the festival and also serves as its artistic director, and London-based Trinidadian Ali, a veteran programmer who has worked at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and Toronto, believe the time is right for Third Horizon and its particular focus.
The event runs from September 29-October 2 and opens with Guetty Felin’s Ayiti Mon Amour (pictured). All screenings will take place at the O Cinema in Wynwood, Miami.
What’s the idea behind Third Horizon?
Jason Jeffers (from a note previously sent to Ali): Third Horizon came about from this sense, as a kid, that I had of the stories of the Caribbean and Third World being regarded as supplementary to those of the First World. We were bit players in world affairs and in...
- 9/29/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Campaign aimed at raising $127,000 (£95,000) to fund technology improvements, product development and marketing for world cinema VOD platform.
UK-based VOD platform FilmDoo has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs and raised two thirds of its target within one week.
The campaign is aiming to raise $127,000 (£95,000) to fund technology improvements, product development and marketing, and has so far raised more than $80,000 (£60,000) from 33 investors.
Seedrs is a platform that allows UK investors to participate in the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme that offers generous tax deductions and other financial incentives for investors. See the FilmDoo campaign here: www.seedrs.com/filmdoo.
Launched at the Cannes Film Festival last year, FilmDoo streams world cinema for a global audience. The platform currently has a library of nearly 1,000 features and shorts from over 20 countries, including award-winning indie films such as God Loves The Fighter from Trinidadian filmmaker Damian Marcano and In The Absence Of The Sun (pictured) from Indonesian director Lucky Kuswandi.
The platform...
UK-based VOD platform FilmDoo has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs and raised two thirds of its target within one week.
The campaign is aiming to raise $127,000 (£95,000) to fund technology improvements, product development and marketing, and has so far raised more than $80,000 (£60,000) from 33 investors.
Seedrs is a platform that allows UK investors to participate in the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme that offers generous tax deductions and other financial incentives for investors. See the FilmDoo campaign here: www.seedrs.com/filmdoo.
Launched at the Cannes Film Festival last year, FilmDoo streams world cinema for a global audience. The platform currently has a library of nearly 1,000 features and shorts from over 20 countries, including award-winning indie films such as God Loves The Fighter from Trinidadian filmmaker Damian Marcano and In The Absence Of The Sun (pictured) from Indonesian director Lucky Kuswandi.
The platform...
- 9/9/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
It’s aimed at raising $127,000 (£95,000) to fund technology improvements, product development and marketing,
UK-based VOD platform FilmDoo has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs and raised two thirds of its target within one week.
The campaign is aiming to raise $127,000 (£95,000) to fund technology improvements, product development and marketing, and has so far raised more than $80,000 (£60,000) from 33 investors.
Seedrs is a platform that allows UK investors to participate in the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme that offers generous tax deductions and other financial incentives for investors. See the FilmDoo campaign here: www.seedrs.com/filmdoo.
Launched at the Cannes Film Festival last year, FilmDoo streams world cinema for a global audience. The platform currently has a library of nearly 1,000 features and shorts from over 20 countries, including award-winning indie films such as God Loves The Fighter from Trinidadian filmmaker Damian Marcano and In The Absence Of The Sun (pictured) from Indonesian director Lucky Kuswandi.
The platform...
UK-based VOD platform FilmDoo has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs and raised two thirds of its target within one week.
The campaign is aiming to raise $127,000 (£95,000) to fund technology improvements, product development and marketing, and has so far raised more than $80,000 (£60,000) from 33 investors.
Seedrs is a platform that allows UK investors to participate in the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme that offers generous tax deductions and other financial incentives for investors. See the FilmDoo campaign here: www.seedrs.com/filmdoo.
Launched at the Cannes Film Festival last year, FilmDoo streams world cinema for a global audience. The platform currently has a library of nearly 1,000 features and shorts from over 20 countries, including award-winning indie films such as God Loves The Fighter from Trinidadian filmmaker Damian Marcano and In The Absence Of The Sun (pictured) from Indonesian director Lucky Kuswandi.
The platform...
- 9/9/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Controversial in that, the main protagonist happens to be a pot dealer which, no doubt, some people will object to. But then again, nothing gets more people more curious to watch anything than controversy. The 10 episode series is called “Chee$e”, which is still in production, and was created and directed by Damian Marcano, a native of Trinidad & Tobago, and whose previous work includes, "The Little Boy & The Ball," and the feature film "God Loves The Fighter” Starring Akil Williams, Lou Lyons and Julio Prince, Marcano describes his film as the story about a young man, Skimma (Williams) whose world is turned upside down when he gets the news that...
- 7/30/2015
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Every day, more and more films are added to the various streaming services out there, ranging from Netflix to YouTube, and are hitting the airwaves via movie-centric networks like TCM. Therefore, sifting through all of these pictures can be a tedious and often times confounding or difficult ordeal. But, that’s why we’re here. Every week, Joshua brings you five films to put at the top of your queue, add to your playlist, or grab off of VOD to make your weekend a little more eventful. Here is this week’s top five, in this week’s Armchair Vacation.
5. Do I Sound Gay? (VOD)
The first of two documentaries included on this week’s list, this film comes from filmmaker David Thorpe, and covers a rather interesting subject. Coming out of a breakup with his boyfriend, Thorpe decides to go on a journey of self-discovery, through an outlet we...
5. Do I Sound Gay? (VOD)
The first of two documentaries included on this week’s list, this film comes from filmmaker David Thorpe, and covers a rather interesting subject. Coming out of a breakup with his boyfriend, Thorpe decides to go on a journey of self-discovery, through an outlet we...
- 7/17/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Every day, more and more films are added to the various streaming services out there, ranging from Netflix to YouTube, and are hitting the airwaves via movie-centric networks like TCM. Therefore, sifting through all of these pictures can be a tedious and often times confounding or difficult ordeal. But, that’s why we’re here. Every week, Joshua brings you five films to put at the top of your queue, add to your playlist, or grab off of VOD to make your weekend a little more eventful. Here is this week’s top five, in this week’s Armchair Vacation.
5. Doomsdays (VOD)
While post-apocalyptic action films seem to be all the craze in modern action cinema, few genres have taken to the moments before the apocalypse, let alone comedic ventures. However, from director Eddie Mullins comes this self described “pre-apocalyptic comedy,” Doomsdays. The film introduces us to two roaming squatters named Dirty Fred and Bruho,...
5. Doomsdays (VOD)
While post-apocalyptic action films seem to be all the craze in modern action cinema, few genres have taken to the moments before the apocalypse, let alone comedic ventures. However, from director Eddie Mullins comes this self described “pre-apocalyptic comedy,” Doomsdays. The film introduces us to two roaming squatters named Dirty Fred and Bruho,...
- 6/5/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Exclusive: Other Iffr pick-ups include God Loves the Fighter.
Newly launched French sales company Stray Dogs has picked up world rights to Mexican horror-thriller I Stay With You (Me quedo contigo) following its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) last month.
Reversing traditional male-female kidnap narratives to shocking effect, I Stay With You follows a group of women who abduct and abuse an unsuspecting cowboy they meet in a bar.
“This is a mind-blowing and crazy film about violence and the battle of the sexes,” says Nathan Fischer, who launched Paris-based Stray Dogs last month.
In another Iffr acquisition, Fischer has world rights excluding Us and the Caribbean to Trinidad and Tobago-born, Los Angeles-based Damian Marcano’s debut God Loves The Fighter.
Set against the backdrop of east Port of Spain, dubbed the murder capital of the Caribbean, the film revolves around a homeless criminal’s tragic struggle to help a young prostitute in trouble...
Newly launched French sales company Stray Dogs has picked up world rights to Mexican horror-thriller I Stay With You (Me quedo contigo) following its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) last month.
Reversing traditional male-female kidnap narratives to shocking effect, I Stay With You follows a group of women who abduct and abuse an unsuspecting cowboy they meet in a bar.
“This is a mind-blowing and crazy film about violence and the battle of the sexes,” says Nathan Fischer, who launched Paris-based Stray Dogs last month.
In another Iffr acquisition, Fischer has world rights excluding Us and the Caribbean to Trinidad and Tobago-born, Los Angeles-based Damian Marcano’s debut God Loves The Fighter.
Set against the backdrop of east Port of Spain, dubbed the murder capital of the Caribbean, the film revolves around a homeless criminal’s tragic struggle to help a young prostitute in trouble...
- 2/10/2015
- ScreenDaily
Iffr reveals Big Screen Awards nominees and the complete line-up for its Bright Future and Spectrum strands, including world premieres from the Us, China and the Netherlands.
Second Coming, starring Idris Elba and Nadine Marshall, has been named as one of 10 films up for the Big Screen Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 21 - Feb 1).
The UK film, written and directed by Debbie Tucker Green, will be vying for a prize of €10,000 ($12,000) awarded specifically to support theatrical distribution of the film in The Netherlands
The 10 nominees are from Iffr’s Bright Future and Spectrum programmes with the winner chosen by a specially selected audience jury. Other titles include Lisandro Alonso’s Cannes Fipresci winner Jauja and Carlos Vermut’s San Sebastian winner Magical Girl.
The nominees are:
I Swear I’ll Leave This Town, Danial AragãoJauja, Lisandro AlonsoKey House Mirror, Michael NoerThe Lesson, Kristina Grozeva, Petar ValchanovMagical Girl, Carlos VermutA...
Second Coming, starring Idris Elba and Nadine Marshall, has been named as one of 10 films up for the Big Screen Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 21 - Feb 1).
The UK film, written and directed by Debbie Tucker Green, will be vying for a prize of €10,000 ($12,000) awarded specifically to support theatrical distribution of the film in The Netherlands
The 10 nominees are from Iffr’s Bright Future and Spectrum programmes with the winner chosen by a specially selected audience jury. Other titles include Lisandro Alonso’s Cannes Fipresci winner Jauja and Carlos Vermut’s San Sebastian winner Magical Girl.
The nominees are:
I Swear I’ll Leave This Town, Danial AragãoJauja, Lisandro AlonsoKey House Mirror, Michael NoerThe Lesson, Kristina Grozeva, Petar ValchanovMagical Girl, Carlos VermutA...
- 1/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Carlos Lechuga’s Melaza has won the juried best feature prize at the 2013 trinidad+tobago film festival.
Top honours for the best documentary were shared by Raoul Peck’s Fatal Assistance and Miquel Galofre and Amanda Sans’ Songs Of Redemption.
The Best Local Feature Film award went to Damian Marcano’s (pictured) God Loves The Fighter, which also won the People’s Choice Feature award.
Songs Of Redemption was the audience favourite in the documentary category.
The festival ran from September 17 and will end on October 1. All in all 142 films screened at the Caribbean event. For the full list of winners visit the official website.
Top honours for the best documentary were shared by Raoul Peck’s Fatal Assistance and Miquel Galofre and Amanda Sans’ Songs Of Redemption.
The Best Local Feature Film award went to Damian Marcano’s (pictured) God Loves The Fighter, which also won the People’s Choice Feature award.
Songs Of Redemption was the audience favourite in the documentary category.
The festival ran from September 17 and will end on October 1. All in all 142 films screened at the Caribbean event. For the full list of winners visit the official website.
- 9/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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