Movies News – Caribbean Life

ReelAbilities Film Festival co-founder Isaac Zablocki.

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Annual film festival highlights international life stories on disability

By Milette Millington

Marian Makeba in Mama Africa.

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ADIFF celebrates over 30 years of ArtMattan Films

By Nelson A. King

Promised Sky by Erige Sehiri is a Cannes-selected drama about an Ivorian pastor in Tunisia who builds a surrogate family with migrant women.

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33rd African Film Festival lights up NYC

By Nelson A. King

International recording artist Juke Ross, the Guyanese-born singer-songwriter recently hailed by Rolling Stone for his "aching" and "soulful" sound. Here he is jamming to his song "Coffee Love," which serves as a vibrant visual love letter to Guyana’s capital.

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Juke Ross drops ‘Coffee Love,’ a cinematic ode to Guyana

By Tangerine Clarke

Leslie Fields-Cruz.

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Back from the brink: Afropop Season 18 set to premiere

By Nelson A. King

Actor with Down Syndrome Race Eberhardt, who stars in the upcoming action film Strait Undercover (2026), which premiered on YouTube on March 21, in honor of Down Syndrome Awareness Day.

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Actor with Down Syndrome stars in new action film

By Milette Millington

A photo of wearing heels, standing up against a wall with her right knee bent, and her right arm hanging off of a ledge.

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Festival hosts annual film series spotlighting women in African diaspora

By Milette Millington

Ryan Coogler poses with the Original Screenplay Award for 'Sinners', at the 2026 British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) at the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre, London, Britain, Feb. 22, 2026.

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Beware! On Ides, ‘Sinners’ could make Oscar history

By Vinette K. Pryce

A scene from “Men Of Courage” produced by Byron Hart.

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BPM premieres ‘Men Of Courage’

By Nelson A. King

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka in Toyin Ibrahim Adeyeke's “Bigger Than Africa.”

Black History Month

Bigger Than Africa digs deep into Black History

By Nelson A. King

Bronx-born filmmaker Dante Hillmedo.

Jamaica

Bronx filmmaker spotlights Jamaican Diaspora stories

By Nelson A. King

Leslie Fields-Cruz BPM executive director.

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HBCU Student Film Festival to premiere award-winning shorts Jan. 27

By Nelson A. King

A scene from the film “Sugar Island” directed by Johanne Gómez Terrero.

Dominican Republic

‘Sugar Island’ wins 2025 Public Award for Best Film Directed by a Woman of Color

By Nelson A. King

Leslie Fields-Cruz.

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Black Public Media makes urgent GivingTuesday plea

By Nelson A. King

André Holland and Kate Mara in a scene from “The Dutchman.”

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33rd Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival kicks off Saturday

By Nelson A. King

Olunike Adeliyi and Maxine Simpson in “Village Keeper” (2024) directed by Karen Chapman.

Grenada

Film fest spotlights excellence in Caribbean diaspora and beyond

By Vinette K. Pryce

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