4TH ANNUAL SIDNEY POITIER FESTIVAL
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Classic Caribbean: Exotic constructions of the West Indies complicated by representations from Caribbean actors and filmmakers.
11AM Festival Opening
12PM Sugar Cane Alley
Native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a young boy learning to reconcile the value of his shanty-town roots with the education opportunities that beckon him to the big city.
2PM Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak in the West Indies, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
4 PM Live and let Die
007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.
6 PM Wide Sargasso Sea
Jane Eyre’s Mrs. Rochester recalls how she met her future husband and eventually came to be imprisoned in the attic at Thornfield Hall.
8PM To Sir, With Love
Idealistic engineer-trainee teaches a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2013
The Caribbean as a saturnalian space, servicing the world’s desires for sex and drugs are placed alongside new narratives that provide a critical perspective on the Caribbean service economy.
12PM My Father the Hero
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.
2PM Wah Do Dem
Max wins a cruise for two to Jamaica and decides to go it alone after his girlfriend dumps him.
4 PM A Raisin in the Sun
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
6 PM Life and Debt
Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.
8 PM Blow
The story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970s.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2013
While some new filmmakers find room to celebrate Caribbean artistic and social accomplishments, new Hollywood and Caribbean films continue to reinforce stereotypes of Caribbean life and history.
11 AM The Agronomist
The true story of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist.
1 PM Mas Man: Peter Minshall
Peter Minshall makes leap from designer in the Trinidad Carnival to an artistic director for three Olympic Games.
3 PM Out the Gate
Everton leaves his home in Jamaica to make it big in the music business in America.
5 PM Marley
A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.
8 PM Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Celebration of Bahamian Filmmakers
1 PM Redial Sunshine
By Travon Patton
3 PM Children of God
By Kareem Mortimer
6PM The Future of Bahamian Filmmaking
Featuring Kareem Mortimer, Travon Patton, Jasper Haeward, and Stephen Hanna
7PM The Making of Gippie’s Kingdom
By Travon Patton and Ian Strachan
ALL SCREENINGS AT THE HARRY MOORE LIBRARY, THE COLLEGE OF THE BAHAMAS, NASSAU CAMPUS
