Kareem Mortimer

Kareem J. Mortimer is a Bahamian director and video artist. Over the past decade, he has won over 30 awards including two Icon Awards, a Black Reel nomination, and an African Movie Academy Award. His films have made the top ten lists of BET, The Independent, Caribbean Beat, and Cine Caribes, and he has been named as a filmmaker to watch by Moving Pictures and ARC Magazine. His work has been distributed in over 50 countries and includes his coming of age debut feature, Children of God which had theatrical exposure in the UK, Netherlands, and the United States; broadcast on Showtime and won 18 festival awards; the family comedy Wind Jammers and most recently Cargo which has won five awards and has had theatrical releases in ten countries across the Caribbean Basin to success. It has also been picked up in ten additional countries including China. His short films include the ten-time award-winning Passage which has aired on PBS and AsPire and Float which has won five awards and broadcasted on LOGO. As a prolific video artist, his video installations have been exhibited in museums across the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. He is an Alumni of Berlinale Talents, Tribeca/Worldview Lab, Cine Qua Non, and Toronto International Film Festival talent- lab.

Children of God

In Children of God we follow three very different individuals: Lena, the conservative wife of a secretly gay pastor; Romeo, a handsome young black man hiding his sexuality from his close-knit family; and Jonny, the conflicted and creatively-blocked white artist in search of himself. All three head for the spectacularly beautiful and tranquil island of Eleuthera to escape current circumstances. Soon, their disparate worlds collide in unexpected and affecting ways.

Cargo

Inspired by true events, CARGO follows Kevin’s struggle to make enough money to pay for his son’s expensive school eventually turning to transporting human “cargo” into the US in order to raise the cash.

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Passage

Passage centers around a group of Haitians locked in the hold of a fishing vessel being smuggled through the Bahamas into the United States. On these vessels communicable diseases such as dysentery is deadly and if individuals get sick they are thrown overboard. The story is focused of Sandrine, a seventeen year old girl who must hide the fact that her brother Etienne is sick in order to save his life.