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For centuries, the Caribbean has been a place
where people from the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia have converged,
and its stories are far richer and more nuanced than the tourist
brochures would have you believe. As film production becomes less
prohibitive and more democratic, a new generation of Caribbean
filmmakers are seizing the moment to bring these stories to the screen.
And with the current drive for diversity in film, the time has never
been more ripe to share these stories with the world. The Third Horizon
Caribbean Film Festival aims to celebrate and empower the filmmakers
leading this charge.
The festival was founded
by Third Horizon, a Miami-based collective of Caribbean creatives whose
first short film, Papa Machete, had its world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival in 2014 and had its US premiere at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2015, before going on to screen at more than
30 film festivals worldwide. It is being staged in partnership with the
Caribbean Film Academy, a Brooklyn-based not-for-profit organization
whose core mission is to support and distribute the work of Caribbean
filmmakers.