As Jamaica’s beaches are increasingly captured by private and tourist interests, a movement fights to reclaim access to the island’s coastline, exposing how tourism displaces communities, disrupts livelihoods, and degrades environments. Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica’s Coastline...
Film Location Jamaica is an upcoming documentary series mapping the history of Jamaica as a film location for both overseas and homegrown filmmakers. Caribbean Creativity serves as the producer of this documentary, which is planned to be completed by the...
Zwarte Ibis (Black Ibis) is a short poetic film made by Belgo-Dutch grassroots media platform Black Speaks Back portraying a young Black woman’s quest for intimacy in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the...
Eating Papaw on the Seashore is a short coming-of-age film produced by the Georgetown Film Festival in collaboration with the Commonwealth Foundation two queer Guyanese boys, who are navigating their feelings in a homophobic society. Caribbean Creativity was one...
Yung Kunta is a short Afrofuturistic love story on migration, homophobia and racism. After yet another bullying incident, Yung Kunta, a young African DJ grappling with his sexual identity, decides to leave his home country, the Gambia, and to...
Blipster Chronicles is a feature-length documentary showing the lives and times of Afro creatives in the Netherlands. Blipsterism is a state of mind of black youngsters between their twenties and thirties who are alternative, independent, creative and love art...
Studio Drummie One and the History of Rock Steady Music is a feature-length documentary on the development of rocksteady, the predecessor of reggae, in Jamaica in the 1960s, with a specific focus on the role of the famous Studio...
Gifts from Babylon is an award-winning short film exploring the impact of Africa-EU migration through the lens of a Gambian return-migrant. The film captures the personal and cultural conflicts that arise when Amadou, a young West African, returns to...
After being smuggled into Trinidad and Tobago to be with her brother Wei, Zhenzhen, an illegal Chinese immigrant, discovers the true cost of her arrival. Moving Parts is one of a handful of new feature films being produced within...
Welcome to the Smiling Coast is a feature-length documentary that offers a rare insight into the daily lives of fifteen youngsters who are struggling to make ends meet in the margins of the Gambian tourism industry. Although the smallest country...