Entries Tagged as 'festival'
February 17th, 2021 ·
In 2018, two years after Hurricane Maria devastated the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico, Dominica and St. Croix, Art in America published an exposé by San Juan born and based curator Marina Reyes Franco. Journalists were “comparing Puerto Rico to Greece, Detroit, and New York of the 1970s,” she wrote, “prompting myriad articles about its economic woes and the population’s resilience.” Central to many of these stories were inspiring narratives about artists and entrepreneurs responding to the crisis. In 2019, we journey to the island to record voices from the cultural scene.
The artists we meet in San Juan convey the promise and pathos of this Caribbean island. In this segment of our Puerto Rico Rising series, four Puerto Rican creatives offer insight into how art can join forces with the strength of community to contemplate beauty and the paradoxes of everyday life.
Voices in the episode: Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Michael Linares, Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Llaima Sanfiorenzo
Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Audio in Order of Appearance: Fabián Wilkins Vélez, Listening Session, 2019; Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Celaje (2020); Florian Dombois, Triple Instrument, 2019; Llaima Sanfiorenzo, Let the Beast Breathe, 2020 and 1 sq foot of freedom, 2007
Related Episodes: Puerto Rico Rising—Resisting Paradise, Puerto Rico Rising—Radical Leaders, The Awakening, Juan Botta Makes One-Minute Movies in Puerto Rico, Edra Soto on the Architecture of Connecting Communities, Mapping Caribbean Cultural Ecologies
Related Links: Beta-Local, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Michael Linares, Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Llaima Sanfiorenzo/Self Portrait Factory, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, Marina Reyes Franco, ATLAS SAN JUAN: TROPICAL DEPRESSION, Art in America, Oct 1, 2018.
Tags: contemporary art · film · public art · activism · performance · community · political art · festival
August 26th, 2020 ·
In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami student Luz Estrella Cruz makes her way to the Third Horizon Film Festival at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex in Miami. She’s there to meet filmmakers Diana Peralta (De Lo Mio, 2019) and Michael Lees (Uncivilized, 2020), whose work she’s been researching. Interviewing them and watching their films, Cruz discovers the passion behind their stories and immerses herself in two diasporic experiences from the Caribbean.
Producers: Luz Cruz/Miami Moves Me, Giselle Heraux and Jahné King/FreshArtINTL
Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio
Related Episodes Miami Moves Me/Third Horizon, Fresh Art Student Edition, Fresh Voices Miami, Miami's Caribbean Arts Remix
Related Links Miami Moves Me Podcast, De Lo Mio, Uncivilized, Third Horizon Film Festival, Fresh Art Distance Learning Guide
Tags: Fresh Talk · film · student edition · black culture · community · education · distance learning · festival
March 11th, 2019 ·
The 2019 documentary Pahokee is a landmark project for filmmakers Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan and a sign of hope for the rural South Florida community whose story they tell. An official selection in 2019 Sundance and South by Southwest Film Festivals, Pahokee won the Miami Film Festival’s 2019 Knight Made in Miami Award.
Perched on the Southeastern shore of Lake Okeechobee in the Everglades, forty miles west and a world apart from affluent West Palm Beach, Pahokee is named after the Seminole word meaning "grassy waters.” In the film, we follow four students as they navigate the hope and heartbreak of their senior year at Pahokee High School. All eyes are on the rituals of football, prom and graduation in the town these teenagers call home.
Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Film Audio and Photography courtesy Otis Lucas
Related Episodes: Women Writers on Cuba in Film, Introducing Miami Film Festival GEMS 2017, Alexa Lim Haas on Animating Daydreams, Borscht 10 Film Festival
Related Links: The Film Pahokee, Otis Lucas, Miami Film Festival 2019
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October 15th, 2018 ·
From Port of Spain, Trinidad, we live stream a special radio program about the significance of digital media as a contemporary cultural space in the Caribbean. Joining us in our pop up studio are artist and writer Christopher Cozier, architect Sean Leonard, writer and media producer Janine Mendes-Franco, journalist and podcaster Franka Philip, and artist designer Kriston Chen—all based in Trinidad.
Listen to find out when the internet begin playing a vital connective role in the region and which social media platforms currently inform and inspire the local creative community. Hear diverse perspectives on how locally produced radio, citizen journalism and podcasting might diversify, amplify and document critical conversations about contemporary art and culture.
Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Audio: Talk 'Bout Us/Trini Good Media; Jamie Lee Lloyd, Unease, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, University of West Indies, 2008; 1000 Mokos, Douen Islands: In Forest and Wild Skies, featuring Sharda Patasar; Moko Jumbie special on Kelly Village TV, 2017; Sugar Cane Arrows; Attorney General TV news bulletin during 1990 attempted coup, via Wondershare; The Street, 91.9FM; IRadio.TT, Music Matters, The Caribbean Edition; 1990 Coup Special on Gayelle TV; David Michael Rudder, Accapella on Instagram, 2018; Don't Be Rude, mix created by Ozzy Merriq, 2011
Related Episodes: LIVE from the Dominican Republic with Tilting Axis, Miami's Caribbean Arts Remix, Diaspora Vibe: Art with Caribbean Roots
Related Links: Alice Yard, Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, #1000Mokos
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May 7th, 2018 ·
Today’s conversations on Miami’s Caribbean Arts Remix reveal the genesis and goals of the three-year old
Third Horizon Film Festival and the first-ever
Tout-Monde (all the world) Festival. Both initiatives aim to introduce some of the boldest of today’s emerging Caribbean-born artists, filmmakers and musicians in Miami, a portal to the international contemporary art and culture scene.
Sound editing: Anamnesis Audio
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March 19th, 2018 ·
Today, we invite three women writers to talk about Cuba as a character in newly released films. Our portal to the Cuban psyche is the 35th Miami Film Festival that brings diverse cultural perspectives to the big screen in theaters across Miami, Florida. Sharing their expertise and personal knowledge of Cuba's socio-political landscape are two sisters born in Miami, to Cuban parents: writer and filmmaker Carmen Peláez and food writer Ana Sofia Peláez. New York based journalist and filmmaker Michelle Memran joins us to remember her own encounters with the culture while making a documentary film with Cuban American playwright María Irene Fornés.
In this conversation, we consider the value of creativity, resilience, family and friendship in Cuba. The country’s historic relationship and chaotic rupture with the Soviet Union is the backdrop for the three stories we introduce. (The 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union catapulted Cuba into a life-changing economic crisis from which Cubans around the world are still recovering.) The films: Cuban Food Stories, director Asori Soto; The Rest I Make Up, director Michelle Memran; and Sergio and Sergai, director Ernesto Daranas.
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March 2nd, 2018 ·
In this conversation, we talk about how the island country of Haiti has long inspired contemporary art, books and films and how the cultural complexity of immigrant communities is a creative force in South Florida. Come with us to the heart of Miami's
Little Haiti neighborhood for a walk about with
Carl Juste, a local cultural activist, photojournalist and artist whose family comes from Haiti and Cuba. Haitian-born writer
Edwige Danticat introduces
Foreigner's Home, a new film to premiere at the
35th Miami Film Festival. Miami-based curators
Marie Vickles,
Edouard Duval-Carrié and
Tosha Grantham (with family ties to Greece and Africa, Haiti, Asia and America, respectively) talk about connecting cultural history to contemporary art in exhibitions at the
Little Haiti Cultural Complex and share what sparked
Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom, the traveling exhibition that recently premiered in Miami. Cuban-born
Lissette Mendez and Carl Juste share some of the stories behind the collective exhibition and book project
Havana, Haiti and the annual
Little Haiti Book Festival.
Tags: · · · · · · · · Fresh Talk · contemporary art · film · curator · black culture · black art · museum · community · education · political art · exhibition · festival
July 6th, 2017 ·
Artist Alexa Lim Haas talks about Agua Viva, her newest animated short film. Agua Viva was among the twenty-four projects selected for a special one-night screening at the 2017 Borscht Film Festival in Miami, Florida.
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