3rd Annual Flatbush Film Festival: West Indian Edition
Event Date(s): December 1st, 2012
Film Lovers & Caribbean Enthusiasts! caribFILM, a division of caribBEING, presents the 3rd Annual Flatbush Film Festival: West Indian Edition. caribBEING presents 11 classic & contemporary films in 7 nights with 4 US Premieres including Ring di Alarm! (Jamaica), No Soca, No Life (Trinidad & Tobago), Cabbie Chronicles (Jamaica) and an encore presentation of the popular, I’m Santana, The Movie (Trinidad & Tobago) throughout 3 cinemas. The selections will be shown at Maysles, Tribeca Cinemas and Brooklyn Heights Cinemas. See below for films screening at TRIBECA CINEMAS on December 1st , 2012:
Stones in the Sun
7:00 PM
Country: Haiti, US
Year: 2012
TRT: 95’
Director: Patricia Benoit
Synopsis: NEW YORK, the 1980s. Yannick (the writer Edwidge Danticat), a journalist, is forced to move to her sister Micheline’s home to escape the violence in their native Haiti. Ronald and Vita, a married couple, have also fled the country. And Gerald, a political activist, gets an unwelcomed visit from his father, who was an enforcer with the Duvalier regime. All six must learn to heal from the trauma of the past in this poignant, haunting film.
Ring di Alarm! (US Premiere)
9:15 PM
Country: Jamaica
TRT: 80 min
Director(s): Desmond Young, Joel Burke, Kyle Chin, Michael “Ras Tingle” Tingling, Michelle Serieux, Nile Saulter, Storm Saulter
Synopsis: “OUT OF MANY, one people” is Jamaica’s national motto. And out of eight short films this one feature-length film about life in modern-day Jamaica, made by the New Caribbean Cinema filmmakers’ collective, was born. Moving from the majestic Blue Mountains to the gritty ghetto to the stunning north coast, and spinning stories funny, suspenseful, thrilling and poignant, this is a cinematic mosaic as diverse and complex as the island that inspired it.