Going Beyond the Beach: Programming a Caribbean Film Festival in Miami
Jonathan Ali is currently studying for an MA Film Programming and Curating. At the start of this year, my decade-long association with the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival—a Caribbean-themed film festival in my native country—came to an end. Over the ten years spent with that festival I had built up quite a store of knowledge about, not to say enthusiasm for, Caribbean cinema. It was thus a great pleasure several few months later to be invited to programme—along with…