Movies News – Caribbean Life

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

Movies

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.

Movies

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.

Movies

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.

Movies

Black Public Media makes urgent GivingTuesday plea

By Nelson A. King

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

Movies

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

Movies

BPL presents LitFilm: A film festival about writers

By Nelson A. King

A poster highlighting Caribbean Cinema at the ADIFF NYC 2025.

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Caribbean stories to take center stage at ADIFF 2025

By Nelson A. King

Alkaline

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Alkaline drops ‘Key Man’

By Nelson A. King

Adlib Steel Orchestra at CLACC-C Youth Pan Festival in 2017.

Movies

CLACC-C hosts Annual Youth Pan Fest

By Nelson A. King

Screen grab of co-directors of “The Ride Ahead Samuel Habib” and his dad, Dan Habib, American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreter, and Tony Award-winning actor and The Ride Ahead cast member, Ali Stroker.

Movies

New film highlights life experiences of disabled filmmaker

By Milette Millington

Brooklyn-based Haitian-American director Wanly Florexile.

Movies

‘Joseph,’ an emotionally charged, character-driven thriller: Marie Driven

By Nelson A. King

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