Use these to follow up on the work we’ve done at the BFCP with your own research on Bahamas film and cinema.
Film databases
The Caribbean Film Database centres on feature films made in and about the Caribbean. It was conceived by the trinidad+tobago film festival in association with the Fundación Global Democracia y Dessarollo, the Association for the Development of Art Cinema and Practice in Guadeloupe, the Foundation of New Latin American Cinema in Cuba and the Festival Régional et International du Cinéma de Guadeloupe. It features numerous films from The Bahamas, including titles by contemporary independent filmmakers Maria Govan, Kareem Mortimer, Clarence Rolle, and Matthew McCoy.
The Colonial Film Database: Moving Images of the British Empire database represents the culmination of a large-scale UK project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and involving as partners the British Film Institute National Archive, the Imperial War Museum and the (subsequently closed) British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Led by Professors Colin McCabe (University of Pittsburgh) and Lee Grieveson (University College London), the database will be holds detailed information on 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies, including The Bahamas. During 2021, the database was temporarily taken offline.
The Travel Film Archive hosts travelogues, educational and industrial films from around the world, many of them shot in colour. Spanning seven decades of analogue filmmaking from 1900 to 1970, the archive contains some 30 titles shot in the Bahamas since the early 1930s.
Bahamas Film Culture Project 