2018 Films & Events
june
Event Details
For Full Details of Each Movie and Trailers please visit: 2018 Films To Book Tickets Click Here
Event Details
A Night of Tribute to Haiti and Haitian-Americans Contribution to the United States
Proceeds to benefit Connect and Elevate, a non-profit that brings Athletics, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (ASTEAM) to Haiti and other under-served places.
Haiti is a Nation of Artists
This documentary showcases Haitian artists creating transformational art after the devastating earthquake in 2010. The film aims to introduce positive images of Haiti and its people while seeking to reframe the stereotypical narrative of a country largely seen as naive and primitive.
Country: U.S.A.
7:45 pm FEATURE: The Empty Box
Due to his health condition, Toussaint, a 60 year old Haitian native, goes to live with Jazmin, his 30 year old daughter in Mexico City. Toussaint is a man who wasn’t able to take root in any of the places he lived. He was not a loving father and he is a complete stranger to Jazmín. Through this compelled cohabitation, Toussaint will put together the puzzle of his past with his remaining memories and Jazmín will be able to forgive and move on with her own life.
A 60 ans, en raison d’une santé fragile, Toussaint doit s’installer chez sa fille Jazmin, qui vit à Mexico. D’origine haïtienne, Toussaint n’a jamais été capable de prendre racine nulle part. Il n’a pas été un père aimant et est un parfait inconnu pour Jazmin. Au gré de cette cohabitation forcée, Toussaint recompose le puzzle de son passé sous le regard tantôt sévère, tantôt bienveillant de sa fille. Il permettra à Jazmin d’aller de l’avant avec sa propre vie.Director: Claudia Sainte-Luce
Producers: Christian Kregel, Lola Ovando
Executive producers: Christian Kregel, Alina Uribe, Eric Lagesse, Jimmy Jean-Louis
Associate producer: Jim Stark
Country: Haiti
I Can Dream
This song is from the film “Luces”, where the singer asks a dangerous gangster for a job and finally falls in love with his bodyguard.
Country: Spain
Florina
After a dispute with her mother, Florina decides to travel through the city of Cartagena to find her father.
Country: Panama/Columbia
Pull Up
The journey of 4 mysterious warriors in a forgotten world.
Country: Martinique
Sound of the Future: HAITI
Once known as ‘The Pearl of the Antilles’, Haiti has become a place where many fear going and are just as eager to escape. However, a renaissance of sorts is underway. Young Haitians in the arts are working together to make their country the destination of the Caribbean.
This film follows the story of the most well-known modern Haitian musician, Michael Brun, as he takes it upon himself to show his fellow countrymen that Haiti is worth fighting for. He channels his music to bring people together, to fuel the change that’s occurring in the country. Through the power of music, Haiti can once again become The Pearl of the Antilles.
Country: Haiti
The Sky Underwater
It’s 2050. Six years old Mia lives in the city of Bergen, under a glass dome, 537 meters under the sea level. Every night, the Big Light wakes her up, clean and beautiful, unlike the rest of the world underwater, which is full of trash. Mia wants to travel out of the dome to see the Big Light, but the Adults hold her back and tell her everything is dangerous out there, because it’s full of sharks. Mia escapes anyway, and finds out that neither the sharks nor the world outside the dome are as dangerous as the fearful Adults want her to believe. Gathering the trash around her with the help of her friends, she will fly up to the surface to see the Moon for the first time.
Country: Norway
Time
(Monday) 5:30 pm - 10:00 pm PST
Organizer
CaribbeanLens Film Festival
Event Details
For Full Details of Each Movie and Trailers please visit: 2018 Films 5:30 pm Ready for a Baby
Event Details
For Full Details of Each Movie and Trailers please visit: 2018 Films
5:30 pm Ready for a Baby
A young woman in her thirties feels very happy and excited – she has a partner, everything in her life is under control, so now is the perfect time to have a baby. It should be easy and natural, with love and fun and everything else … right?
Country: Australia
5:35 pm The Sounds of Street Vendors: Havana, Cuba
A portrait of the music and the sounds of street vendors in Havana
Country: Cuba
5:43 pm Scars of Our Mother’s Dreams
Scars Of Our Mothers’ Dreams is a short documentary that offers a unique, intimate glimpse into the complexities of parental migration through the lenses of children left behind. Years after her own personal struggle to overcome the feeling of childhood abandonment, filmmaker Meschida Philip returned to Grenada in search of others with similar childhood experiences, to find out how their lives were impacted after their parents migrated.
Country: U.S.A./Grenada W.I.
5:56 pm Unbound
Follow Detective-Sergeant Mia Richardson as she tackles the brutal rape of a young woman. As a member of CISOCA she is bound by an oath to protect the vulnerable but her investigation is derailed by a man who is neither friend nor foe; a rogue officer of the JDF known only as Roman. Mia’s investigation uncovers a sinister human trafficking ring but also betrays a secret from her past. Now she must put an end to a personal evil and dive head first into a confrontation that she cannot hope to win on her own.
Country: Jamaica
6:12 pm Pimento & Hot Pepper: The Mento Story
In Jamaica, before ska, reggae and dancehall there was mento. This is a history of Jamaica’s first commercially viable music, which peaked with the popularity of Calypso. The film captures performances from some of the bands that have been playing for over 50 yrs, as well as interviews from leading authorities on mento.
Country: Jamaica
7:12 pm S0.CI3.TY
J0.hn an emotionless and regulated citizen of THE CITY awakes on a deserted island where he’ll have to embrace his own humanity to survive…
Country: Martinique
7:39 pm It Ain’t Easy Being Green
For decades, mysterious and prehistoric looking green iguanas in the U.S. Virgin Islands were a rare sight. Now their population is exploding out of control and it’s up to a bunch of islanders with radically different ideas to figure out what to do next! Tourists, scientists, and government administrators also dive into the madness, joining on-going efforts to figure out how the islands’ two and four-legged residents can co-exist.
Country: U.S.A. Virgin Islands
8:15 pm District 28
Richard David is a local activist of Indo-Guyanese origin seeking the city council seat in District 28, Queens, New York City. Coming from a country divided along racial lines, David aims to bridge the two racial sides of the Van Wyck Expressway. His story is supported by other leaders, positively representing the Indo-Caribbean community in Queens, New York City.
Country: U.S.A.
8:40 pm Torments of Love
A film from Guadeloupe based on hidden love and untold feelings between two sisters in their thirties and their father.
Country: Guadeloupe, French W.I.
9:35 pm Darkroom
In “Darkroom” an overbearing father finds his teenage son has transformed the basement of their New York townhouse into an amateur darkroom. There the boy develops gruesome and voyeuristic images from his late-night crime scene photography.
Country: U.S.A
Time
(Tuesday) 5:30 pm - 10:00 pm PST
Organizer
CaribbeanLens Film Festival
Event Details
For Full Details of Each Movie and Trailers please visit: 2018 Films To Book Tickets Scroll Down to the Ticket Section 5:15 pm Aun Aqui/Still Here “This no-budget
Event Details
For Full Details of Each Movie and Trailers please visit: 2018 Films
To Book Tickets Scroll Down to the Ticket Section
5:15 pm Aun Aqui/Still Here
“This no-budget silent short film is our tribute to the disappeared and their families, as well as a call to non-violent activism. No ideology can justify kidnapping, so for this short i chose to leave the kidnappers and their motivations in the shadows and simply cast a brief light on the victim and her desire for freedom, a right of every human being.” -Andres Useche
Country: Colombia
5:30 pm Colloidal Croco
Stanley, a male child crocodile living in a zoo, was being attracted to fireworks set off far away on a certain night. But just finding him getting on a fence, Stanno, his father, brought his painful memory back and scolded Stanley severely. The next day, Stanley finally decided to escape from the zoo, with a longing heart for the outside world and rebellion spirit to his father in his mind.
Country: Japan
5:47 Sorf Hair
Sorf Hair explores the natural hair experience in Trinidad and Tobago as several people from different walks of life with different hair textures unearth their stories, challenges and give their point of view on how and why naturals are treated the way they are in this country.
Country: Trinidad & Tobago
6:00pm Encounter of Separated Souls
Two pairs of twins meet in an old patio. They have brought a personal item and a song. Two birds, a handkerchief and a painting of a grandmother. It’s an encounter of separated souls and a story about brotherhood.
Country: Denmark
6:09 Voice of the Monolith
Voice of the Monolith is a musical short film about gentrification in rapidly changing Crown Heights, told through the voices of a Black punk rocker new to the neighborhood, and a Brooklyn raised rapper with a chip on his shoulder. The outsider, O.G., is a recent transplant to Crown Heights and runs afoul of the Marlon, a neighborhood local who is trying to protect his through intimidation. Marlon’s exertion of pressure unleashes in the song Bad Block as he tries to set O.G. in his place as an outsider that doesn’t belong. Set against interaction of O.G. and Marlon is O.G.’s band, the Spades. Both D.D. and Rob are tired of being in a cover band and want O.G. to create new music. This need for new music comes to a head in the song Say Something, as D.D. pleads to O.G. about their need for music that has a message about what’s going on in their scene and the world at large. With the pressure coming at all sides O.G. begins to crack and unleashes his feelings in the climactic song De-gentify.
Country: U.S.A.
6:14 Kung Pao Love
This short romantic comedy is about an American/Chinese couple in Shenzhen, China, that started off hot but has fallen out of love after 5 years of marriage. Both partners secretly turn to a new dating app to find romance.
Country: China
6:30 Happy Marriage Anniversary
A falling marital relationship of a suffocated husband and a wife, both decided to move on for a better lives but not without confronting, confessing and making peace with each other before one of them kills the other.
Country: India
7:00 Panomundo Part 1: The Evolution of the Steelpan
Slavery may have been the catalyst, but culture and passion formed this sound in Trinidad & Tobago. The steelpan (steel drum) can take the claim of being the only acoustic instrument invented in the 20th century. However, this sound not only moves people today, but it paralleled the island’s history of colonization and the demand for independence.
The first section of this two-part film highlights the precursors of the steelpan and the creation of the instrument until it gained international recognition in Britain in 1951. Interviews from steelpan legends, such as Ellie Mannette, Sterling Betancourt, Cliff Alexis and Ray Holman, are included.
Country: Trinidad & Tobago
7:42 pm Rain
The Rain feels insecure.
Country: U.S.A.
7:47 pm Déjà vu
A story between two lovers of how did they meet for the first time.
Country: United Arab Emirates
7:55 Invisible
Anthony Spencer is dealing with grief from the death of his brother. A simple mistake changes his entire world.
Country: U.S.A.
8:20 Just Another Friday 2
After the tragic death of his friend, John turns to God and feverishly begins to work in the community where he was once a member of Glock’s gang. Armed with his newfound faith and with Sonia, his friend’s sister, as his girlfriend and ministry partner, he sets up a community center to assist the youth and needy families. But he soon finds himself on a collision course with Glock and Blu, John’s replacement in the gang as well as Rammy Don, an ambitious young gangster. As Sonia faces her own doubts she must also deal with her family’s lingering pain of losing a loved one and the impending death of another. John finds himself with a tough decision and his life on the line. How much can his faith withstand?
Country: Jamaica
Time
(Wednesday) 5:15 pm - 10:00 pm PST
Organizer
CaribbeanLens Film Festival
Event Details
Proceeds to benefit the Los Angeles-based Jamaican Cultural Alliance (To purchase tickets or for more information visit
Event Details
Proceeds to benefit the Los Angeles-based Jamaican Cultural Alliance
(To purchase tickets or for more information visit www.JamaicaCulture.org).
6:00pm: Cross My Heart
6:15pm:The Revolution of the Fairytale
- Snow White (incorporating Vitiligo awareness, and speaking on the story of Gene Miles of Trinidad)
- The Wizard of Oz (incorporating The heroes of the Haitian Revolution, incorporating Orisha elements )
- Alice in Wonderland (the story of the black Caribs ) Ras-punzel – merging Caribbean folklore.
7:05-7:45 – Panomundo Part 1:The Evolution of the Steelpan
Just added!
7:45pm: iRony
A film that explores the relationship between man and technology…told from the perspective of a phone. Variously described as an Animation, an Experimental Film, a Narrative, a Documentary or a Film-Poem depending on who you speak to, this hand drawn animated film is based on the poem ‘Seven Billion’ written by the film director that won 2 National poetry awards: The Young Australian Writer’s National Award for Poetry, selected out of a field of 30,000 and the Karen W Treanor Poetry Award (Youth).
Genre: Sci-Fi, Technology, Film Poem
Director: Radheya Jegatheva
Writer: Radheya Jegatheva
Producer: Radheya Jegatheva
Country: Australia
8:00pm: Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones’s bold aesthetic. A larger-than-life entertainer, an androgynous glam-pop diva, an unpredictable media presence – Grace Jones is all these things and more. Sophie Fiennes’s documentary goes beyond the traditional music biography, offering a portrait as stylish and unconventional as its subject. Taking us home with her to Jamaica, into the studio with long-time collaborators Sly & Robbie, and backstage at gigs around the world, the film reveals Jones as lover, daughter, mother, and businesswoman. But the stage is the fixed point to which the film returns, with eye-popping performances of “Slave to the Rhythm,” “Pull Up to the Bumper,” “Love is the Drug,” and more. Jones herself has said watching the film “will be like seeing me almost naked” and, indeed, Fiennes’s treatment is every bit as definition-defying as its subject, untamed by either age or life itself.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Country: U.K./Ireland
(To purchase tickets or for more information visit www.JamaicaCulture.org).
Time
(Friday) 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm PST
Location
Veterans Memorial Building Rotunda
4117 Overland Avenue, Culver City CA 90230
Organizer
CaribbeanLens Film Festival
Event Details
Saturday, June 16, 2018 6:30PM
Event Details
Saturday, June 16, 2018
6:30PM to 7:45PM
Cocktails, Art Exhibit & Blue Carpet Arrival
7:45PM to 11PM
Dinner, Awards Show & Dance
Dress: Black-Tie Optional
Purchase tickets at www.CaribbeanHeritage.org.
Time
(Saturday) 6:30 pm - 11:00 pm PST
