Caribbean women are film night focus
If you’ve got the time, the Queen’s College of Guyana Alumni Association (N.Y.) and the Caribbean Film Academy is offering films at the “QCAANY Night of Film: Cinema Femme — The Caribbean Woman in Frame” next week.
Next Saturday, the select group of female-connected films will be screened at BKLYN Commons, 495 Flatbush Ave., from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The second edition of the “Night of Film” series is curated by Romola Lucas, the founder of CaFA, and Yaphet Jackman. The films and filmmakers include: • “Ori Inu: In Search of Self,” from Chelsea Odufu, tells of an immigrant woman making a choice between cultural norms of America and her Afro-Brazilian roots.
• Canadian Ian Harnarine, who was born to parents from Trinidad and Tobago, directed “Caroni,” a film about a nanny in New York longing to be in Trinidad for her daughter’s birthday.
• “Cross My Heart,” by filmmaker Sontenish Myers, is the story of a teenage girl from America who discovers a secret while visiting relatives in Jamaica.
• “Sugar,” a Michelle Serieux film about a black Jamaican girl “on the brink of womanhood” working at a Jamaican resort.
For tickets, http://bit.ly/cinemafemme_2019.
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The “2019 Katra Film Series - Spring Edition” continues Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse, 445 Albee Square in Brooklyn, starting at 6 p.m. The evening of film is complemented by a networking session and an after-party. For tickets, visit katrafilmseries.com/tickets
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