{"id":45693,"date":"2013-12-31T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=45693"},"modified":"2014-01-07T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:12:04","slug":"passage-becomes-first-bahamian-film-to-screen-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/12\/passage-becomes-first-bahamian-film-to-screen-in-cuba","title":{"rendered":"Passage Becomes First Bahamian Film To Screen In Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45694\" title=\"kareem-mortimer-passage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/kareem-mortimer-passage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/kareem-mortimer-passage.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/kareem-mortimer-passage-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/kareem-mortimer-passage-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nassau, Bahamas &#8211; Three-time award-winning short film Passage, by Kareem Mortimer became the first Bahamian film to screen in Havana, Cuba at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in the festival\u2019s 35 year history.<\/p>\n<p>Passage tells the story of a young woman and her brother fighting for survival while being smuggled into the United States on a fishing vessel. The film was featured in a showcase presented by the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF) entitled \u2018Caribbean Calling.\u2019 The showcase included four feature length films and five short films, all of which screened at this year\u2019s TTFF where Mortimer\u2019s Passage won best short film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassage was included in our Havana presentation as it is a moving, well-crafted film that is particularly resonant for our region,&#8221; stated Annabelle Alcazar, Program Director of The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The films featured in \u2018Caribbean Calling\u2019 represent a wide cross-section of the non-Spanish speaking Caribbean and come from countries such as Aruba, Barbados, Martinique and Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have traveled to Cuba several times as a filmmaker and the honour of Passage having a place at such a vibrant, exotic festival that is a must for any serious filmmaker making content in Latin America and The Caribbean is a dream come true,\u201d stated Mortimer.<\/p>\n<p>Passage was one of five film proposals chosen by the Commonwealth Foundation\u2019s initiative Commonwealth Shorts, beating out thousands of applicants from around the Commonwealth in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Premiering in Auckland, New Zealand in February 2013, the film has received critical acclaim in the festival circuit winning Director\u2019s Choice at the Portland Maine Film Festival, Best Short Film at the Trinidad &amp; Tobago Film Festival and an Open Category winner at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Grand Bahama this year alone.<\/p>\n<p>Passage will screen in Nassau, Bahamas in January, followed by several festival dates in France and the United States in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion IMC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning short film Passage, by Kareem Mortimer, became the first Bahamian film to ever screen in Cuba at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":45694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[26,30],"class_list":["post-45693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-arts","tag-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}