Meet Our Programmers

Compelling, culturally relevant film programming is a cornerstone of TTFF. Our TTFF/26 programmers are guided by a clear principle: to unapologetically centre the Caribbean by curating the best new films from our region.

In selecting this year’s programmers, we’re actively embedding our pan Caribbean-ness by reaching out across our region to Jamaica, Barbados, and of course, Trinidad and Tobago. We’re delighted to introduce our TTFF/26 programmers!

 

  • Julian Carrington, is from Canada via Barbados
  • Chloe Walters-Wallace is from Jamaica
  • Farrah Rahaman is from Trinidad and Tobago

Julian Carrington

Julian Carrington is Executive Director of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) and a film programmer, curator, and industry consultant. He previously programmed for Hot Docs, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival, and is the founder of For Viola, the Hot Docs Cinema’s community screening series dedicated to celebrating BIPOC filmmakers and expanding documentary audiences. He has also served as a project evaluator for Telefilm Canada and the Jamaica Screen Development Initiative.

As a child, Julian moved to Toronto from Barbados, and he maintains close ties to the island and to the wider Caribbean. Passionate about supporting filmmakers from across the region, he previously served as a juror for TTFF, and is delighted to return this year as a member of the programming team.

 

Chloe Walters-Wallace

Chloe Walters-Wallace is a Jamaican creative with a passion for curation, travel, non-fiction media, dancehall, and installation art. As the director of regional initiatives at Firelight Media, her work focuses on amplifying the stories of emerging filmmakers outside of major media hubs. Committed to championing place-based storytelling, she is the creator and executive producer of the award-winning anthology series HOMEGROWN, now in its fourth season, which brings important regional stories to the forefront of the national conversation.

Expanding her impact across the diaspora, Chloe co-created Third Horizon’s Caribbean Film Academy 2.0 and the Caribbean Think Tank, convening artists and leaders across the region to collaborate across borders, colonial legacies and language barriers. Alongside this work, she has co-programmed BlackStar Film Festival’s Oscar-qualifying documentary shorts programme for the past seven years. Previously, she led the New Orleans Film Society’s Emerging Voices programme, launched the Southern Producers Lab, and guest curated the Southern Circuit Tour.

 

Farrah Rahaman

Farrah Rahaman is a cultural worker from San Fernando. She scaffolds academic research, cultural organizing, curation, and filmmaking to make meaning and chart her peoples in the long story of life on earth. Farrah is a PhD Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania whose interdisciplinary methodology centers Caribbean women’s narratives, political and social imaginations, and visual culture.

Farrah was a part of the BlackStar Film Festival team for a decade, where she served as panel curator and producer, and has provided curatorial and research assistance on the exhibitions Assemblage, Lossless and Swarm: Terence Nance. She is currently producing Venus Flytrap, a performance series and installation for BlackStar Projects with the artist Joiri Minaya and curator Dessane Cassell Lopez. As the 2023-2024 Curator-in-Residence at Express Newark she mounted the film and video exhibition Things We Do in the Dark: Cinematic Experiments in Kinship which featured thirty video works from artists who engage in collaborative approaches to contemporary filmmaking.