Film
Panorama: Jamming to the Top + Lifted
- 7:15PM
Post-screening Q&A
with Panorama director Christine Shaw, editor Davone Alexis, Lifted director Miquel Galofré, and Leila Jane Nassif (Chief of Mission of UNHCR’s Trinidad and Tobago Office)
Dir. Christine Shaw
2018, 74min
Panorama follows a vibrant community in Brooklyn that loves the steel pan and is fighting to keep it alive in the borough. As the band Steel Xplosion prepare for the annual Panorama steel band competition, we follow their journey across one challenging summer as they face down various obstacles in their bid to come out on top.
Dir. Miquel Galofré
2019, 25min
Carlos, a Venezuelan refugee who lives in Trinidad with his mother and older brother, finds respite from his troubled life by learning the art of stilt-walking.
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