Link to Poster - WINTER 2010 - Friday Film Night Series - Screening the Caribbean


Friday, January 15 Life and Debt

Life and Debt (Mongrel Media, 2001) (Directed by Stephanie black and using excerpts from Antiguan author Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place, an indictment of Caribbean tourism, this documentary explores neoimperial practices and the effects of economic globalization in Jamaica)

 

Friday, January 22 Sugar Cane Alley
Sugar Cane Alley / Rue Cases Negres (Full Frame, 1983) (Eugene Palcy’s adaptation of Joseph Zobel’s novel of the same title, a study of early twentieth century Martiniquan society from the perspective of a young boy struggling to break free from a labourer’s life on the old sugar plantations.)

Friday, January 29 Rude

 

 

Rude (NFB, 1995)
(Clement Virgo’s debut feature film about black urban life in Toronto, exploring issues of gender, sexuality and racial inequality)
Friday, February 05 Finder of Lost Children

 

to be screened at Princess Original Cinema*

Finder of Lost Children (Richard Scipio, 2009) (Written, directed and produced by Vancouver-based Richard Scipio, this feature film examines the taboo issue of “outside children”, following the story of two half-sisters who meet at the funeral of the father neither of them knew.)


Friday, February 26 Sweetest Mango

 

The Sweetest Mango (Howard Allen, 2001) (Directed and independently produced by husband and wife team Howard and Mitzi Allen, the film is renowned as the first full-length feature film from the eastern anglophone Caribbean; a Torontonian woman returns to her native island of Antigua where she experiences reverse culture shock and falls in love.)  

 

 

Wednesday, March 03 Love, Sex, & Eating the Bones

to be screened at Princess Original Cinema*

Love, Sex and Eating the Bones (David Sutherland, Eating the Bones Production, 2003)

 

(David Sutherland won the Canadian First feature Film Award for his romantic comedy about a sexually dysfunctional young African-American male) Friday, March 05 Agronomist

 

The Agronomist / L’Agronomiste (Frenetic Films, 2004)

 

(Directed by Jonathon Demme, a documentary about Haitian radio host Jean Dominique who, in 1968, bought Radio Haiti Inter and turned it into the one source of information unfiltered by the government to “serve the people” not the French-speaking elite) Friday, March 12 Fresa y Chocolate

 

Strawberry and Chocolate/ Fresa y chocolate (Criterion, 1995)

 

(Winner of several international film awards, directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea, it is a tragi-comic look at homophobia in 1970’s Cuba.)

 

Friday, March 19 Divas

Divas: Love Me Forever (Canadian Filmmakers Distribution, 2002) (a documentary by Cuban-Canadian director Edimburgo Cabrera, about gay life and Toronto’s gay club scene from the perspective of six female impersonators or drag queens)
Friday, March 26 Tropiqe Nord

 

Tropic North/ Tropique Nord (Cinema Libre, 1994)

 

(a film by Michaelle Jean and Jean Lafond, Canada’s Governor General; a study of the haitian diaspora in Montreal and black-Quebecois identities) Friday, April 02 The Harder They Come

 

The Harder They Come (Criterion, 1973) (Produced and directed by Perry Henzell, the film takes a challenging look at issues of race, class, imperialism, art and love in its exploration of the musical genre of Reggae.)