Caribbean Studies & Caribbean Diaspora
A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (90)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.
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A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (52)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.
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Living Along the Fenceline
The U.S. has 1,000 bases worldwide. The Pentagon says they make us secure. These women disagree.
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Sweet Sugar Rage
Documents how Jamaica's Sistren Collective theatre uses imporvisation and theatre as a consciousness raising tool among rural and urban working women in Jamaica.
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Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation
“Every diaspora is the passage from unity to multiplicity.” Manthia Diawara’s 2009 conversations with Édouard Glissant detail the latter’s theory of Relation and the concept of Tout-monde.
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Voices of the Gods
This documentary captures the rich legacy of ancient African religions practiced in the United States.
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EL SIGNO VACÍO (the empty sign)
Through found footage and portraits of local artists and activists the film is a playful journey into the complex layers of the US occupation of Puerto Rico.
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NEGRITA: Racially Black, Ethnically Latina
NEGRITA—a Spanish term meaning “little Black girl”—is a personal and probing documentary exploring how anti-Blackness in American and Latino cultures shapes the identities of Afro-Latina women.
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Four Days in May: Kingston 2010
In 2010 Jamaican military and police forces declared a state of emergency in West Kingston to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke—who had been ordered for extradition to the U.S. At least 75 civilians died as a result. This doc juxtaposes the harrowing testimonies of the survivors with footage from the U.S. drone that was surveilling the operation from above.
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Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution
Grenada 1983. Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and a number of his colleagues were machine-gunned to death. Their bodies were never found.
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Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens
A documentary about the 1963 Coral Gardens “incident,” a moment just after independence when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and tortured hundreds of Rastafarians.
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Voodoo Dance: A Tribute to the People of Haiti
Documents the significant role of Voodoo in Haitian culture from the perspectives of Voodoo priests, government officials, historians and politicians.
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Drills of Liberation
In the wake of climate change, a new social movement emerges in Puerto Rico to protest austerity measures imposed by US colonial forces.
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Dal Puri Diaspora
The journey of West Indian rotis across three continents.
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All the Ladies Say
Documentary on Female Breakdancers
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Musica
A rich overview of the development of Afro-Cuban music in the United States, featuring interviews with Mario Bauza and Dizzie Gillespie.
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Deported
DEPORTED follows members of a unique group of outcasts in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America.
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Mas Man
Peter Minshall, Trinidad Carnival Artist.
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The Amerindians
In this documentary, filmmaker Tracy Assing makes a personal exploration of her roots as a member of the Santa Rosa Carib Community based in Arima.
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The Friends
A coming-of-age story about the friendship between two young Black girls growing up in 1957 Harlem, Phyllisia Cathy from a newly arrived, upwardly mobile Caribbean family, and Edith Jackson, Harlem-born and raised.
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The Other Side of the Water: The Journey of a Haitian Rara Band in Brooklyn
The 20-year journey of an unlikely band of activists who take an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn.
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Quienes Son?
An eight minute journey in search of "extraterrestrial" life in Cuba.
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Radio Haiti
New York's Haitian community take it to the bridge to protest a year of mortal policing.
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Gay Cuba
“Gay Cuba” casts a hopeful light on efforts to reform and to humanize a society often maligned for its calcified rigidity.
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No Bois Man No Fraid
A Feature Length documentary film on Kalinda Stick fighting in Trinidad and Tobago
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Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes
A treasure trove of rescued tapes revives the golden age of reggae music and reveals the fascinating story behind one of Jamaica’s most legendary recording studios, Randy’s Studio 17.
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Venceremos Brigade (Newsreel #)
A film shot in Cuba in 1970-1971 about two brigades of 500 Americans that went to Cuba in order to show support by breaking the blockade and to help with the sugar harvest of ten million tons.
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La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx
Art, labor, and family blend in this intimate film about Latina performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better known as ‘La Bruja’.
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Work and Respect
New updated version includes footage of New York State Governor David Paterson signing the 2010 Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.
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‘70: Remembering a Revolution
How did a handful of students contribute to the Black Power Movement worldwide, and change the course of history in Trinidad and Tobago?
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Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano
A look at the work of Cuban Hip-Hop artists, this documentary includes footage of their daily lives, perfomances at the Cuban Hip-Hop festival, and recording sessions in New York City.
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C’est Quitte: The French Creoles of Trinidad
A documentary about the role of the French Creoles in Trinidad and Tobago, including the Catholic church, the French and Patois (Creole) languages, educational institutions, family values and the impact of racism, prejudice and cultural stereotypes.
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Boys of Summer
BOYS OF SUMMER is an inspiring documentary about Curaçao's Little League Team.
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The Survivor’s Project: Voices from the Inside-Out!
The implications of youth, poverty, gangs and gun violence.
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The Insatiable Season
Making Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Solitary Alchemist, The
What happens when talent isn’t enough?
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Resilience
Stories of Single Black Mothers.
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Punta Soul
Chronicles the evolution of popular Garifuna music from Belize and explores the role of the music in Belize's cultural awakening.
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On The Map
Intra-Caribbean migration from Guyana to Barbados.
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Invisible
Children Living with HIV / AIDS.
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Directions
A wonderfully comedic look at how Trinidadians give (or don’t give) directions.
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Caribbean Skin, African Identity
The documentary examines the concept of African identity as it has evolved over the generations in Trinidad & Tobago.
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Calypso Dreams
Calypso like you’ve never heard before.
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Calypso @ Dirty Jim's
The most famous calypso artists invite you to return to the roots of Caribbean music.
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Blood
Captures a lively summit in Havana between Toronto dub poet d’bi.young, exiled American activist Nehanda Abiodun, and feminist Cuban hip-hop trio Las Krudas.
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Autonomy
Struggle for self-governance on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.
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Asé
Dance film showcasing Trinidadian Traditional Orisha Song and Dance
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Reunion: West Indian Women at War
In 1943, 300 middle-class “coloured” women from across the West Indies were recruited to the ATS, a branch of the British Army during WW2.
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Dreaming Rivers
This short fiction piece explores the thoughts and dreams of a middle-aged Afro-Caribbean immgrant in England on her deathbed.
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Our Lady Queen of Harlem: A Portrait of Faith and Rebellion
On a crumbling sidewalk in the heart of Spanish Harlem, a small but impassioned group of women are fighting for their community.
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A Linc in Time
Revealing Portrait of Canadian leader Lincoln Alexander.
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