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Caribbean Cinematic Festival

Time: Feb. 25, 2017, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Location: Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee Street, Syracuse

The Community Folk Art Center highlights the richness of Caribbean culture through a series of film screenings, performances, workshops and discussions, February 23-26, thanks to support from African American Studies and the College of Arts & Sciences.

The Humanities Center is pleased to provide support for Saturday's film festival. The tentative schedule includes:

11 a.m.
Songs of Redemption (Jamaica) – 1 hour 18 minutes
A group of inmates at the General Penitentiary in Kingston, Jamaica are involved in a rehabilitation program based in music.

1:30 p.m.
Murder in Pacot (Haiti) - 2 hours 10 minutes
After the terrible January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a privileged couple struggles to reinvent a life amid the rubble of their villa in Port-au-Prince's upscale neighborhood of Pacot. Destitute and in desperate need for money to repair their home, the couple decides to rent the remaining habitable part of the villa to Alex, a high-level foreign relief worker, accompanied by Jennifer, aka Andrémise, his sassy, ambitious Haitian girlfriend.

4 p.m.
Dominica – 45 minutes
This is part 2 of a domentary depicting the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Dominica in October of 2016. 

Tamar Smithers, African American Studies / Community Folk Art Center