If we agree that films can affect the way that we perceive ourselves, then can they also effect change? In this session, panellists who work in social-justice and -issue filmmaking discuss how seeing ourselves onscreen (whether big or small) might have a positive impact on our society’s development.

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date: Sunday 25 September, 2022
time: 4.30pm–5.45pm
location: NALIS (AV Room)
rsvp: pre-registration required. Sign up here!
tickets: free of charge
moderator: Franka Phillip

Within the Caribbean – traditionally a deeply homophobic region – the LGBTQIA+ community faces an alarming level of danger and censure. In this context, making films that openly explore LGBTQIA+ characters, themes and stories is both revolutionary and risky, so   Caribbean filmmakers have tended to tread lightly around queer experiences for fear of harassment, rejection, stigmatization and even physical violence. But determined to tell their own stories, filmmakers are increasingly pushing back against this reticence.

Join us as we hear from filmmakers as they discuss the importance and challenges of centring queer experience in their storytelling.

logistics

date: Friday 23 September, 2022
time: 2.30pm–4.00pm
location: NALIS (AV Room)
rsvp: pre-registration required. Sign up here!
tickets: free of charge
moderator: Franka Philip

featured image: production still from ‘Judgement Day’ directed by Francesca Hawkins