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fl@tbush film fest's Grand Finale with Haiti Night!

2011-11-17T22:14:00.000-08:00

Don't miss fl@tbush film fest's Grand Finale with Haiti Night!

After four successful nights, cariBBeing's 2nd annual fl@tbush film fest will come to close this Friday, November 18 at MoCADA in Brooklyn with Haiti night. This will be the final opportunity to check out the fest's art exhibition showcasing a diverse selection of visual art and photography from some of the Caribbean's most innovative artists. Haiti night will feature the World Premier of Michele Mitchell's Where Did the Money Go?. Come and be the first to check out the controversial film before it debuts on PBS in 2012. Where Did the Money Go? is a groundbreaking film that dissects where the $ 1.4 billion that U.S. households donated to the country went after the earthquake of 2010. Also screening is Daniel Goudroufe's photo eassay "Haiti Renaissance." A reception with food, wine and refreshments will precede the films.

Double Dose of cariBBeing @ Maysles Cinema

2011-11-12T11:17:00.000-08:00

This weekend is a double dose of cariBBeing as Maysles Cinema will be the home to Jamaica night (Night 3) on Friday, November 11 and a return to Trinidad (Night 4) on Saturday, November 12. Jamaica night will include a screening of Man Free, narrated by the late Perry Henzell (The Harder They Come) and encompassing some of the last footage of Henzell before he passed. Man Free takes a look into the lives of everyday people in beautiful Jamaica as they fight politics, crime, drugs and more.

Night 4 will showcase the surrealist fantasy drama SistaGod and selected works from acclaimed Trinidadian filmmaker Yao Ramesar. SistaGod is the first feature of a trilogy that tells the story of the coming of a black female messiah in the future, during a period known as the Apocalypso – a global holocaust that she alone survives. SistaGod will also be supplemented be shorts from Ramesar.

See you later,

Shelley

cariBBeingART: Q&A w/ Film Director/cinematographer Janluk Stanislas (Guadeloupe)

2011-11-06T23:00:00.000-08:00

When did you know you wanted to be involved in the arts?

I was involved in the arts since my younger age without really knowing it. Through my mother who incited us (my brother & I) to get involved into music, photography, filming and also sports. But I think I really became conscious of it 20 years ago. After graduating from science and the death of my grandmother, my quest about life and my Caribbean-African identity manifested into art and mostly cinema.

Who or what inspires you?

Life inspires me, encounters, history, injustice, my grandmother, my understanding of where I’m coming from, who am I today and where I’m going. The life of great artists. The movement of life definitely, it’s a long process…

What's unique about being an artist in or from your country?

This is a difficult question, but I think that all artists carrying with them their culture and identity have a special vision that feeds them since they born. I don’t think I have something unique, the only thing about it is that we are all unique as individuals…it’s the nature of life and science. It’s solely about being me or ourselves that makes us unique.

From your perspective, what is it about New York that brings Caribbeans together?

New York is a place built out of melting pots of communities. What bring the Caribbean together is the movement of the city toward curiosity, discovering, and from my point of view, understanding. But the different communities from the Caribbean islands that live today in New York must know that a Caribbean identity can only be built without the fear of moving towards the future. One plus one is something else. We mustn’t be afraid to lose something to gain something else.

How important is it to culturally educate through your art?

It’s about knowledge, building step by step a culture who is perpetually in evolution. It’s about understanding yourself and also understanding others. Cinema is the 7^th art form, means that it gathers all the other ones. Being a Caribbean from the French West Indies, that makes me want to educate myself first by understanding the Caribbean…it’s about a learning process first before rendering it and attempting to educate. Education is important in my art only if the education is important in my life. Art is a way to express feelings about life. It’s about understanding ourselves as Caribbeans.

What is the message that you are trying to portray through your work?

Difficult question…today I’ll say that some topics are important for me…aesthetics, beauty of life, commitments, simplicities. Years ago I would really want to incorporate messages, today I’m mostly trying to talk about my heritage from life, culturally, socially and artistically. But I’ll need more time to develop this question.

What can we do to help raise artistic awareness in your country?

First of all, understand the needs of my country before trying to help it. It’s not an easy path to build and raise awareness. Our community is coming from all parts of the world. So doing a festival like cariBBeing is a first step to establishing a relation into building together. We mustn’t forget that we’re coming from different tribes but we are all the same, human beings.

cariBBeing Fl@tbush Film Festival on NY1

2011-10-31T22:11:00.000-07:00

Come and joins us on Friday, November 4th @ Maysles Cinema in beautiful Harlem 6:30pm-11pm for reception and the screening of Janluk Stanislas's "Nou Yorkers." For more information regarding the night's events click here.

For NY1 full article visit: http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stories/149910/flatbush-film-festival-celebrates-all-things-caribbean

cariBBeing's "fl@tbush film fest 2nd edition": Opening Ceremony @ Mocada

2011-10-26T17:35:00.000-07:00

On Friday, October 28th, cariBBeing's "fl@tbush film fest 2nd edition" will celebrate its opening ceremony with a night showcasing emerging filmmakers and artists from Trinidad. The festivities kick-off at 6:30pm at MoCADA, located at 80 Hanson Pl in Brooklyn, NY. A reception with wine and refreshments will be held before the films.

Opening the night will be Daniel Goudrouffe's photo essay, "Black Men Are Good" and Roger Alexis' short film, "Contemporary Sorcerer." In the spirit of Halloween weekend, the evening's feature film is "3 Line," a shocking supernatural thriller filled with Caribbean folklore. "3 Line" follows six friends who head to a quiet fishing village to make an investigative documentary. What starts out as a routine film shoot in a supposed paradise quickly turns into hell as the friends find themselves preyed on by a demented family of sadists. "3 Line" delivers a thrilling cinematic experience that will leave the audience shocked in their seats.

cariBBeingART: Q&A w/ Fashion Designer Robert Young (Trinidad & Tobago)

2011-10-24T08:25:00.000-07:00

When did you know you wanted to be involved in the arts?

This was late. I was 21 when I started the cloth. Maybe when I was 32 I realized I was actually working as an Artist.

Who or what inspires you?

Persons like CLR James, Peter Minshall, Keith Haring, Lloyd Best, and Christopher Cozier.

What's unique about being an artist in or from your country?

What’s unique is that we create space but the development of those spaces is not supported by the state, the government, by the elite, by the masses. We have to fight. It’s a place where anarchy can exist easily limbo, a dance developed here to ritualize the experience of our African ancestors coming to the new world, is performed. It symbolizes that act of making space where none was provided. Here space can be created and fought for. The unequal forces of the perceived market work against your projects from your perspective.

What is it about New York that brings Caribbeans together?

Well it’s a small island, speaking about Manhattan, with a population of 50 million around it. Many of my people who have played mas (taken on new identities) and danced the limbo (adapted to fit into society given much adversity), have made the choice to migrate to New York City, mostly for economic reasons. When we are here we find each other to break the isolation.

How important is it to culturally educate through your art?

I have difficulty in answering this question. I do what I do and it impacts in many ways. What I try to place in front of you is more the politics of the body and how those bodies dress themselves. Every wearer has a different body. When the clothing is worn the person is read in many ways. It may be voiced as, “she dress nice eh.” or “why all them colours?”

What is the message that you are trying to portray through your work?

You can be yourself, you may choose to be Caribbean and Caribbean is being defined a new way every day.

What can we do to help raise artistic awareness in your country?

Let this show be seen in the islands where the artist are from.

* Be sure to check out the limited edition bags by Robert Young exclusively available at our opening show, October 28th 6:30pm-11:00pm @ Mocada (80 Hanson pl Brooklyn NY)

For more information on Robert Young and his clothing line The Cloth please visit:

http://www.thecloth.net/

http://www.facebook.com/theclothcaribbean?ref=ts

cariBBeing presents Fl@tbush Film Festival, 2nd Edition

2011-10-14T23:20:00.000-07:00

October 28th & November 18th
CariBBeing Presents:
Fl@tbush Film Festival, 2nd Edition
Curated by Shelley V. Worrell

cariBBeing presents the fl@tbush film festival 2nd edition and Salon 1.0 (on view at MoCADA) October 28 – November 18, 2011. The festival features documentaries, photo essays, and art by emerging Caribbean artists and filmmakers. The festival will be held in both MoCADA and Maysles Cinema.

Click here for line-up:

cariBBeing is an emerging festival whose mission is to build community through the lens of Caribbean cinema and art. Based in Flatbush, Brooklyn and founded in 1999, cariBBeing is the brainchild of Shelly V. Worrell.

OPENING NIGHT
Friday, October 28, 2011
@MoCADA
6:30 – 11pm

cariBBeingART
Photo Essay: Black Men are Good, Photographed by Daniel Goudrouffe
2011 / 4’

cariBBeingCINEMA
Contemporary Sorcerer, Directed by Roger Alexis
2009 / 6’

cariBBeingCINEMA
3 Line, Directed by Christopher Din Chong
2011 / 87’
Wine and refreshments will be served

CLOSING NIGHT
Friday, November 18, 2011
@MoCADA
6:30 – 10pm
United We Stand II: Ayiti Then & Now

cariBBeingCINEMA
Where Did The Money Go, Directed by Michelle Mitchell
2011 / 58’

cariBBeingCINEMA
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, Directed by Maya Deren
2006 / 60’

cariBBeingART
Photo Essay: Haiti Renaissance, Photographed by Daniel Goudroffe
2010 / 4’
Wine and refreshments will be served

EXHIBITION @ MoCADA’s Extended Gallery
Salon 1.0
An exhibition of emerging Caribbean film + art + performance
on view at MoCADA: October 28 – November 18
curated by Shelley V. Worrell
Exhibiting artists include
Alain Caprice • Daniel Goudrouffe • Brianna McCarthy • Teanna Woods

Links
www.cariBBeing.com
facebook.com/pages/caribbeing
twitter | @cariBBeing
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/29996883

The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association and the Maysles Cinema Present:

2011-10-09T19:53:00.000-07:00

Thursday, October 13th, 6:30pm
The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association and the Maysles Cinema Present:

The Best of the New York Children’s International Film Festival
and
Anime Caribe and the CariBBeing Film Festival’s Animated Shorts
@ the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park
(122nd Street and Mt. Morris Park West/Fifth Ave)

RAIN LOCATION:
Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church
(15 Mount Morris Park West at 122nd Street)
100% Free
Strictly for the Young and the Young at Heart!!!!!!

The Best of the New York Children’s International Film Festival
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Dean Fleischer-Camp, 2010, 3 min.
An up-close and personal interview with Internet video star Marcel, a
tiny shell with one eyeball, two shoes, and a really great
personality!
Don’t Go
Turgut Akacik, 2010, 4 min.
Awesome, thumpy, electronic disco music propels this non-stop chase
scene of a movie – as a cute, pink-bellied, one-eyed CGI bunny gets
chased around an apartment by a live action black cat.
Gravity
Renaud Hallee, 2009, 2 min.
Falling objects are synchronized to produce rhythms and patterns.
Johnny
Malena Modéer, 2010, 4 min.
Colorful stop motion, goofy live action, surreal homemade sets, and a
ridiculous pigeon costume come together to humorous effect in the
story of Johnny – a hilariously narrated, tongue-in-cheek fable about
what happens to little boys who don’t drink their milk!
Book Girl and Cabinet Girl
Jane Wu, 2010, 3.5 min.
Two girls realize the value of their friendship after a journey of
broken hearts, torn pages and reconciliation.

Pixels
Patrick Jean, 2010, 2.5 min.
Old-school video game icons take over New York City (and the world) in this music video for French techno-pop band Naïve New Beaters.
The Lost Thing
Andrew Ruhemann/Shaun Tan, 2010, 15.5 min.
A boy encounters a strange creature on a beach and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to think about. This beautifully animated film comes from Passion Pictures, producers of past NYICFF favorites City of Paradise and Dog Who Was a Cat Inside.
Ormie
Rob Silvestri, 2010, 4 min.
Ormie is a Pig, in every sense of the word. Pig see cookie. Pig want
cookie. But they are out of reach... or are they?
The Deep
PES, 2010, 2 min.
Metallic objects come to life in the depths of the sea, in the newest
film from New York’s brilliant stop-motion artist PES – whose past
NYICFF selections include Western Spaghetti, Dogs of War, and Game
Over.
The Best of Anime Caribe and the CariBBeing Film Festival’s Animated Shorts
Jerk Chicken
Samuel Stewart, 2010, 6 min.
Jerk Chicken is an animated comedic short that explores the work day
of a Jamaican jerk chicken chef named Ron. However, Ron’s passion for
his craft is short lived as the frustrations of the chicken eventually
emerge.

How Anancy Became Famous
Andrew Davies and Ananse Animation Project, 2010, 4:41 min.
Most times Anancy, without working hard, without playing by the rules,
comes out on top. He has a way of getting into scrapes and a
wonderfully cunning way of getting out of them. Anancy also represents
the resilience and survival instinct of a people who can come through
any situation.
Kina Sky
Corretta Singer, 2009, 6:13 min.
A robot girl trapped on a floating island longs for freedom and
finally her dream comes true after a stroke of inspiration.
Krik Krak Anansi
Camille Selvon Abrahams, 2010, 7 min.
Anansi is not amused when he hears Brer Monkey announce that there is
a shortage of Bananas. This is by far his favorite food and he cannot
stand to have to share. But as usual he concocts a mischievous plan.
Pretending to be selfless and caring Lil Anansi tricks his friends
into giving him quarter of each of their Bananas. Little does Anansi
know that what goes around comes around.
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"A Night of Caribbean Shorts"

2011-08-28T19:54:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile but we're back on board! Seeing that the festivities will begin this October/November, things are beginning to pick up for us at cariBBeing. There has been some bumps in the road but, what's a great idea without challenges? The hurricane has passed over here in Brooklyn and we are ready to get busy! Besides, Labor day is just around the corner...you know what that means?

Just recently we had a great day hosting "A Night of Caribbean Shorts" @ Kidflix for Mocada. Unfortunately, the official day got rained out so we hosted it on Saturday. Never the less, we had a blast and the shorts received a great response from the kids and adults. Thank you Casym with an amazing performance along with the Moko Jumbies.Thank you Mocada for allowing us the pleasure and we look forward to Oct/Nov. The community was there in full effect...Bed-Stuy! Thank you for everyone who came! If you missed that night, we plan on showing a chosen few from the program during our upcoming festival. Stay tuned! Here's some shots from the night...

Unfortunately, the night made for a bad photo opt so I couldn't get any good film shots. Rest assured that there was laughs and smiles all around.

Mocada and African Film Festival New York Presents... the 12th annual KIDFlix Film Festival

2011-08-02T23:46:00.000-07:00

The 12th annual KIDFlix Film Festival kicks off this Friday the 5th with "Brownstones to Red Dirt" including a live dance and performance by Creative Outlet @ Fulton Park Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn!! This film is amazing and it doesn't disappoint! The film focuses on a group of kids from Bed-Stuy projects and a group of orphans from Sierra Leone finding one another through a pen pal program. You can read more about the film here. All days of the festival fall on a Friday and start at 7pm (Saturday being the rain date). Our kids are our future, our hope and they the deserve the best but, most importantly a great time!! This is a free event as always so bring your family and friends. Let's enjoy the last month of Summer the Brooklyn way! KIDFlix is an amazing event with four Fridays that you can't afford to miss.

We have been privileged to host along with Anime Caribe Friday night, the 19th of August as we present to you... "A Night of Caribbean Shorts." The shorts will be followed with a live performance by Casym Steel Orchestra and delicious food donated by Sugarcane Restaurant. We can't wait to present to you such an incredible line-up!!

Please take some time out to look at the program and the great line-up of events to come. There is a reason why this is the 12th annual KIDFlix Film Festival. With a community outreach at heart, these events deserve to last forever.

Since Day 1...

2011-03-02T00:17:00.000-08:00

I was first introduced to Shelley Worrell the founder of cariBBeing over a awkward three way call that included her and her cousin. I think I perform best in awkward situations...maybe not. Although, that time...I can say it did lead to something great. During the time of our acquaintance Shelley was wrapping up the final prep work for the first ever Caribbean film fest in New York. It was held in the Whitman Hall at Brooklyn College, where she once attended. We soon became good friends due to our similar mind state and aspirations. As the time was winding down I'll helped her gather some loose ends and before you know she finished her opening speech, the lights went down and things were rolling (no pun intended). With it's ode to Haiti, the first ever Caribbean film fest opened and closed on a great note. At the time while I was shooting some photos, I couldn't help to realize that cariBBeing was such a grand idea with such an intimate ideology. After things wrapped up, I let my camera rest over my shoulders and dazed out the mezzanine windows. With live music playing in the background, It was then while looking out over the campus and still seeing fragments of the community intertwined...that everything just fell into place..."Building community through the lens of caribbean cinema + art." It all makes perfect sense. October will be here before you know...it only gets better!!!

Ready to do it again?