Caribbean Creativity Presents ‘Kool Runnings’

At the Unique Caribbean Short Film Program at Rode Loper Festival in Amsterdam on  Saturday September 26, the Caribbean Creativity Foundation will present Kool Runnings.

A wide range of productions will be screened at the Oosterpark, from documentaries and trailers to animation films and music videos. Together they represent the diversity and quality of the current media landscape of the (Anglophone) Caribbean. Armed with a digital camera, a new generation documents the rich stories from the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora.

In the short documentary Brooklyn Racine (2009) we follow a young group of Haitian immigrants who have taken their ancient music (rara) from the Caribbean hills and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn, while the T&T animation Small Thing Mentality (2009) explores the typical Caribbean phrase ‘small thing’ and how it is really a ‘big thing’ for a person under pressure. And in One Cup of Coffee (2008) we take a look at the fair trade coffee plantation of Rohan Marley, son of Bob Marley, in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica.

The Kool Runnings short film program is composed by Caribbean Creativity in cooperation with the Caribbean Tales Film Festival (Canada), Animae Caribe Animation Festival (Trinidad), Nice Time Productions (Jamaica/France/Netherlands) and several independent Caribbean filmmakers.

For more information, please visit www.caribbeancreativity.nl or email info@caribbeancreativity.nl.