Renee Pollonais
Renee Pollonais is a graduate of the UWI/St.Augustine campus film programme and has many poignant short films under her belt.
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Penny Hynam
Before her return to Barbados in 1992, Penny Hynam had a 25-year career in Canada in film, television, arts administration and writing. A graduate of the University of Alberta with an Honours degree in English and Theatre, she worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and at CITY television, co-founded the documentary production company Mobius Productions, worked as a Script Reader for Telefilm Canada and as a Script Supervisor/Continuity on the set of over 40 movies and television dramas between 1975 and 1991. She was the founding Assistant Director of the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies, a prestigious training school set up by Director Norman Jewison, and President for two years of Toronto Women in Film and Television.
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Rachele Magloire
Born in Port au Prince, Haiti, Rachèle Magloire was raised in Montreal, Quebec where she graduated in Communications in 1987. Back to Haiti the same year, she worked as a reporter for the privately owned Télé Haiti and wrote for Haîti en Marche, a weekly published in Miami. In 1991 she had a brief stunt at Haiti National Television as Chief Editor and then News Director. From 1991 to 1995, Rachèle Magloire was a stringer for the Montreal dailies La Presse and Le Devoir and collaborated to Le Point, a Radio Canada TV magazine. Since 1995, she directs documentaries within Fanal Productions, an audiovisual production company founded with Director of Photography and Director Carl Lafontant.
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Rasheida Adrianus
Rasheida Adrianus is a Dutch-based Director, Producer and Filmmaker. She’s the creator of the Girls’N Cocktails talk show which was launched in the Caribbean, by Tempo Networks, and in the Netherlands. In 2017 Rasheida created a teenage drama series called Ezki’ Schoolleven and the show gained a million views on YouTube. The show is also nominated for a VEED award, the biggest award show for online content in the Netherlands. In April this year, she will launch a new drama series called “De Flirt Squad.”
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Ruby Robinson
Ruby Robinson is an IT and Telecommunications Executive; who with her musician husband, Everton Hardweare (an unlikely couple who met and fell in love some 10 years ago), created a reality TV series called, ‘The Hardweares.’ The show is based primarily in Jamaica with scenes of the couple building their dream home and at their Miami home and coverage of Everton as he travels for his career in music
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Sharon Syriac
Sharon Syriac & Oyetayo Raymond Ojade together co-produced & directed, “The Madonna Murti” documentary that utilizes narrative, drama, illustrations and song to tell the tale of a religious statue who offers health, hope, help and happiness to those who come to her most in need of it. This film features candid interviews with poojaris, pilgrims, pundits and priests as well as academic experts who have tried to understand her, artists who have tried to capture her illusive image and writers who have tried to tell her story. http://caribbeantales-tv.com/product/the-madonna-murti/
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Shirley Bruno
Shirley Bruno’s films draw from her Haitian heritage preserving and radicalizing her ancestral traditions and mythology. She creates modern myths that expose the slippery spaces between the physical and metaphysical world, between collective memory and history. In her work, she explores the every day, the Sacred, and the intimate violence in the things left unsaid that mark us. Her work has shown in film festivals, galleries, and television worldwide. Shirley holds a Masters with Distinction from London Film School and a Masters II with Mention from Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains where she was an artist fellow. She works alternately between France, New York, and Haiti. http://caribbeantales-worldwide.com/movies/movies/the-things-i-see/
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Mandisa Pantin
Mandisa Pantin is a writer, film producer and director, and has been the script supervisor on three award winning films, Jab in Dark, 2013, Pan! Our Musical Odyssey, 2014 and Sally’s Way, Green Days By the River, 2017. She is currently working on a bio-documentary of her father, the late Raoul Pantin. Falling in love with the way that the camera could reshape the world, she delved headlong into a multifaceted career within film and television
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Nicole Brooks
Nicole Brooks is an award-winning filmmaker, director, performer, singer, playwright, composer, curator, teacher and “art-ivist,” who has devoted over 15 years producing innovative content (for the stage and screen), with a focus on narratives that illuminate the peoples of the African Diaspora.
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Mariette Monpierre
Born in Guadeloupe and raised in Paris, writer/director Mariette Monpierre began her career as a producer of award-winning, powerful short films. Her first feature film, Le Bonheur d’Elza received favourable reviews from both the New York Times and Indiewire. See Mariette’s latest project for television, CarribbeanGirl NYC on CTTV
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