TRAVELLING CARIBBEAN FILM SHOWCASE SELECTIONS
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MacPherson
Screening: 6:20PM - 6:30PM, Centre Stage (Harquail Theatre) Director: Martine Chartrand
Date of production: 2011
Length: 10 min.
Genre: Animated film
Synopsis: In Quebec during the early 1930s, young poet Félix Leclerc befriended Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican born chemical engineer. A jazz fan and a university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company, Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives. Leclerc entitled it "MacPherson" in honour of his friend and, through poetry, transformed him into one of those men who dance on logs. Somewhere between documentary and fiction, MacPherson depicts turning points in history and, with great sensitivity, captures in lavish images the deep feelings shared by the Jamaican engineer and one of the poet's sisters.
20 Years (20 Años)
Screening: 6:30PM - 6:45PM (Harquail Theatre) Director: Barbaro J. Ortiz
Date of production: 2010
Length: 15 min.
Genre: Animated short film
Synopsis: A woman lives grappled to a happy past, but her present is very different. 20 years of indifference and mistreatment has challenged the love of this person. In order to get the attention of her husband, she'll try even the impossible.
Rumbero by Birth (Rumbero de Nacimiento)
Screening: 7:45PM - 8:10PM (Harquail Theatre) Director: Angel Alderete
Date of production: 2012
Length: 25 min.
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: A film on all rumba traditions from generation to generation by Angel Alderete - an award-winning filmmaker and photographer who has photographed over forty documentaries from 1972 to 1982.