YURUMEIN, ( HOMELAND)
Produced, directed and self-distributed this 50-minute documentary about the Caribs / Garifuna of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. Completed in 2014
SELECTED SCREENINGS
- International Congress Caribbean Cultural Diversity, Cuba
- Garifuna International Research Conference, St. Vincent
- Caribbean Studies Association Conference, New Orleans
- Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles
- Society for Visual Anthropology, Washington, D. C.
- Critical Heritage Studies Conference
- African Diaspora International Film Festival, NYC
- Caribbean Tales Film Festival, Toronto
- Belize International Film Festival
- Sacred Journeys Conference, Oxford, England
- AFI – DC Caribbean Film Fest
- Garifuna International Film Festival, Los Angeles
- Rincón Film Festival, Puerto Rico
- St. John Film Society, USVI
- Caribbean Museum of Art, USVI
JAMESIE, KING OF SCRATCH
Produced, directed and self-distributed this 70-minute documentary about a musical tradition bearer from the U. S. Virgin Islands. Completed in 2006.
AWARDS / SCREENINGS
- Reelworld Film Festival, Toronto
- Bahamas International Film Festival
- Dominican International Film Festival
- Bay Street Film Festival, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada: People’s Choice Award
- Turks and Caico’s Film Festival
- Globians International Documentary Film Festival, Potsdam, Germany
- Women’s International Film Festival
- Santa Cruz Film Festival
- Aarhus Film Festival, Denmark
- Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Brazil
- Park City Music Film Festival: GOLD MEDAL for Best Documentary on a Musical Subject
THE GARIFUNA JOURNEY
Co-produced, directed and self-distributed this 45-minute documentary about the Garifuna community in Belize. Completed in 1998.
AWARDS / SCREENINGS
- International Conference of Traditional Music, Rio de Janerio, Brazil
- American Museum of Natural History, Caribbean Heritage Fest, New York
- National Educational Film & Video Festival: BRONZE APPLE
- 18th Bilan du Film Ethnographique, Paris, France
- Cartegena Film & Video Festival, Columbia
- Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles, California
- Smithsonian, National Museum of American Indian, New York
- Telluride Film & Video Festival
- Columbus International Film and Video Festival: HONORABLE MENTION
- Breckenridge Festival of Film, Colorado
- Philadelphia International Film Festival: HONORABLE MENTION
- Huntington International, NY: Artistic Excellence in Ethnographic Video
- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois
- Latin American Studies Association Film Festival: AWARD OF MERIT
- American Anthropology Film Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Caribbean Studies Conference, Antigua, West Indies
- Echoes of the Bone Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
THE LONG ROAD HOME
Produced, directed and self-distributed a 30-minute documentary about Guatemalan Maya refugees living in Chiapas, Mexico. Completed in 1992.
AWARDS / SCREENINGS
- National Educational Film & Video Festival: BRONZE APPLE
- Smokey Mountain Media Festival
- Earth Peace International Film Festival: CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION
- Chicago Latino Cinema Film Festival
- Festival Cine Latino, San Francisco, California
- Columbus International Film & Video Festival: HONORABLE MENTION
- Big Muddy Film Festival
VOODOO AND THE CHURCH OF HAITI
Produced, wrote and self-distributed a 46-minute film about Voodoo in Haiti. Completed in 1989.
SELECTED SCREENINGS
- PBS, Chicago Filmmakers
- Chicago Cultural Center
- Du Sable Museum, Chicago
- University of Wisconsin
- University of Chicago
- National Association of Black Studies Conference
- African Studies Conference
- American Anthropological Association