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CaFA Film Nights - May 2014 Edition: Male Directors/Female Leads

To the Night
by Kojo McPherson
Guyana, 2013

"To the Night," explores themes related to the life of a sex worker in Guyana. It is the story of a single mother's financial and moral struggles to provide for her family. Upon realizing that sex work is threatening to tear her family apart, Camille attempts to find a new line of work, coming face-to-face with, perhaps, a harsher set of economic realities.

Passage
by Kareem Mortimer
Bahamas, 2013

A twenty-year-old Haitian woman, Sandrine and her thirteen year old brother Etienne are being transported from Haiti to the Bahamas in the hold of a dilapidated wooden vessel filled with several other immigrants in search of a better life. When her brother takes ill, she must use her smarts and strength to avoid him being thrown off the boat and save his life.

Broken
by Demedrius Charles
St. Lucia/USA, 2013

"Broken," tells the story of Lisa's emotional journey as she tries to balance life, love and friendship while working, paying for school in New York City and maintaining a dead beat husband on the island of St.Lucia.