1.5 to Survive: Sea Level Rise, Pine Ridge Forest, Climate Change

Director: Suzette Zayden
Country: Belize
3 min./ Color / DVD
Genre: Documentry
Year: 2009
Language: English
Rated: G

Low lying Caribbean countries arguably face the highest global threat due to Climate Change. What happens to our climate, our sea level and our pine ridge forests if air temperatures are not checked and left to continue to rise higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius? 1.5 to survive is a call to action to all developed countries to reduce their carbon emissions.

22 Years from Home

Director: Malachi Leopold
Country: USA / Sudan
37 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2009
Language: English

In 1983, after an 11 year hiatus, civil war reignited between northern and southern Sudan. Two million southern Sudanese were killed. 27,000 children reached refugee camps in Ethiopia.
They are the Lost Boys of Sudan. Driven from Ethiopia be rebel forces in 1991, the children fled to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. During their one year march to Kenya, they faced starvation, military assaults, animal attacks, and disease. Fewer than 16,000 survived. This is the story of 1 boy- Kuek Aleu Garang.

At Sea

Director: Neisha Agostini
Country: Tobago
27 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Documentary
Year:2009
Language: English

Parlatuvier is a serene fishing village in Tobago. This well-made and evocative documentary tells the story of the men and their families who dedicate their lives to fishing. But more than this, as the story unfolds the stream of consciousness narratives draw on the symbols evident within fishing culture, and from it larger patterns emerge and parallels are drawn to describe the similarity between fishing and life.

Change the Game

Director: Berne Velasquez
Country:Belize
60 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2010
Language: English
Rated: G

This uplifting, exciting and riveting documentary will grab your attentions from start to finish as you become motivated and inspired to change the game. Change the Game is a documentary made to open the eyes of the public to what is really happening in the Entertainment Industry in Belize today. Its intentions are to create opportunities and build the entertainment industry. Brace yourself for major changes!

Choice Earth Beautiful

Director: Daniel Velazquez
Country: Belize / Japan
19 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2010
Language: English
Rated: G

Choice, Earth Beautiful, is an experimental art film shot in Belize and Tokyo , by Multi media artist Daniel Velazquez. Run with a child through the beautiful green Belizean jungle as he inspires you to make the change! Choose a better more beautiful earth.

Derrick Banos: Belizean Talent Knocking On Opportunity’s door

Director: Daniel Velazquez
Country: Belize / USA
22 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2010
Language: English
Rated: G

“Prodigy - an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration.” Derrick Banos, a humble high school student born and raised in San Pedro Town, Belize, may have successfully earned that label. This short documentary attempts to capture the emerging personality and talents of a young musician. Meet the people who have been influential in Derrick’s life as he refines his musical gift. Watch as his community embarks on a quest to send him to a prestigious summer camp in the United States where they hope he will be discovered.

Hope For Climate Change: Harpy Eagle

Director: Carol Farneti Foster/Richard Foster
Country: Belize
20 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2010
Language: English
Rated: G

A 19 minute educational/conservation video about the release of “Hope”, the Harpy Eagles into The Rio Bravo Conservation and Managements Area in the northern part of Belize. The release of “Hope” is symbolic of the need to preserve our natural environment to combat climate change and for the benefit of mankind. This story directly relates to the importance of the rain forest, not only to its wildlife but to humans and how when burning it effects the planet.

Humiliated and Offended

Director: Javier Horacio Alvarez
Country: Bolivia
47 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Political Documentary
Year: 2008
Original Language: Spanish with English Subtitles

In Sucre, Bolivia on the 24th May 2008, Bolivians arrived to celebrate what turned into a brutal nightmare. This documentary reveals the violent racial acts inflicted on the peasants and indigenous leaders by police and university students.

I Guana Go to Cayo

Director: Daniel Velazquez
Country: Belize
18 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Wildlife Conservation
Year: 2010
Original Language: English
Rated: G

I Guana Go to Cayo, was made to celebrate 15 years of San Ignacio Resort Hotel’ s creative conservation of the Green Iguanas. Follow exciting and educational footage of this sustainable conservation project as project founders Mariam Roberson and Daniel Velazquez relive its growth.

Soca Power in Trinidad and Tobago

Directed by Claude Santiago
Country: Trinidad & Tobago / France
60 min / Color / DVD
Genre:Documentry
Year: 2007
Original Language: English

The criticisms of Soca Power are obvious and valid: it seems a trifle unsure whether it’s for Us or Them; in it’s brief hour it follows four different musicians, each worthy of a considerably longer film in his or her own right; it over-explains where it bothers to explain (as in Fay-Ann Lyons discourse on wining) while leaving the camera on for fairly long passages, silent apart from background noise (as in her perambulations in Arima with hubby Bunji); and it does not touch Carnival itself at all. Half-an-hour longer, and/or with a narrator or more extensive use of sub-titles, it might have cured all these defects. The film’s strengths, though, more than compensate for its shortcomings: the subject performers are strong and very comfortable in front of the camera.(Fay-Ann Lyons manages to look even better with the camera behind her.) The music is strong, the concert footage captures all the excitement of Trinidad Carnival super-fetes – including fence-top wining. More than anything, the film is very strong visually – the least you’d expect of a partially French film. Yes, they could have thought it out a bit and shown us a lot more; still, if it doesn’t give you satisfaction, you should give up your passport. Recommended like pelau without pigtail.

The Black Mozart In Cuba / Le Mozart Noir à Cuba

Director: Steve James
Country: Guadeloupe
52 min ./ Color / DVD
Year:
Genre : Documentry
Language: The film’s naration is in english. Most interviews are in french and panish with english subtitles
Rated: Suitable for all audiences

Born In guadeloupe from the love between a black slave and a French nobleman, Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, became one of the most remarkable figures of the 18th century. Best fencer in Europe, violonist virtuoso and genius composer, but also the first black free mason and general in the army, he influenced the music and the political life of his time.

After his very existence had been erased from history by Napoleaon for 200 years, he is now rediscovered by a few dedicated writers and musicians. In this documentary, Cuba, an exceptional island on the artistic level, dedicates a week of cultural activities to his memory and welcomes Saint Georges as “a great hero of the Caribbean”

The Boxer / Peleador

Dirección: Pablo José Lozano Hernández
Country: Cuba
22 min / Color / DVD
Year: 2009
Genre: Documentary
Language: Spanish w/ English subtitle

Leonardo is a boxer kid who likes to train fighting fish. He lives in Old Havana where the violence and force are an everyday occurrence. Leonardo reveals his fighter condition versus life, versus the hard sports training and versus his opponent in a boxing fight.

Wayne Hammon

Director: Daniel Velazquez
Country: Belize
10 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Art and Culture
Year: 2009
Original Language: English
Rated: G

South African artist Wayne Hammon travels to San Antonio Village, Cayo to fulfil his lifelong dream to scuplt clay along with the Indigenous Maya of Belize. He and the women’s group in this humble village collaborate to revitalizes an ancient beautiful art form in Belize: clay sculpting.

Within the Shadowz of Belize A Green Day Arises

Director: Clyde Gillett
Country: Belize / USA
40 mins / Mixed / DVD
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2007
Original Language: English
Rated: G

Tentayape: The Last House / Tentayape: La Ultima Casa

Director: Roberto Alem
Bolivia
52 min./Color/DVD
Year: 2009
Genre: perdon docDocumentary
Language: Spanish, Quechua w/ English Subtitles
Rated: G

Despite the nearby intrusion by oil companies, the Ava Guarani of Tentayape still live in a community of solidarity, freedom and austerity, at one with nature and their cultural traditions. What insight can their way of life offer to our world that has taken itself so far from its origins?

Tribute To Haiti: Haiti Trembles

Director: Claude Mancuso

Haiti
10 min / Color / DVD
Documentary / 2010
Language: English

Producer: Claude Mancuso
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Images following the earthquake of January 2010 that devastated the country of HAITI and its capital, Port Au Prince.

Tribute To Haiti: Port Au Prince is Mine / Port Au Prince se pam

Director: Rigoberto Lopez

Haiti / Cuba
57 min./Color/DVD
Documentary /2000
Language: In French Creole w/ English Subtitles

Producer: Frantz Voltaire
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This documentary provides a portrait of the beleaguered city. Port au Prince, the capital of the Republic of Haiti, is today a victim of overpopulation, lack of urban infrastructure, and environmental degradation.