Join Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Third Horizon Film Festival for the world premiere of the short films of Third Horizon Forward and after party.
Launched in 2023, Third Horizon Forward is an initiative created for filmmakers working out of Miami who trace their lineage to the Caribbean, to interrogate and explore the culture, character, spirit, people, and legacy of the region through film. These short films have an authentic, enduring, and vital connection to the region Third Horizon calls home.
Start your evening with the Short Films of Third Horizon Forward followed by a short conversation with the featured filmmakers. Continue your night on the waterfront terrace for a Locals Only DJ Set featuring Pressure Point and Le Poodle playing live from a traditional dancehall format sound system. Local organizations and artists including Bookleggers, Love the Everglades, Miami Dade Public Library AV Club, and Najja Moon will activate the terrace in celebration of opening night.
Schedule
7–9pm Short films and conversation in the Auditorium
9–11pm Locals Only DJ Set on the East Portico
Short Films of Third Horizon Forward
BOAT PEOPLE
Filmmaker: Al’ikens Plancher
Year: 2024
Length: 10 mins
Language: English and Kweyol, with English subtitles
Country: USA
Inspired by true events, Boat People follows a Haitian refugee fighting to survive the inhumane conditions at Guantànamo Bay.
About the filmmaker
Al’Ikens Plancher is a writer-director from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Throughout the years, he’s worked in various positions in TV and film, including on such shows as The Chi and Yellowstone. His short films have won various awards, and screened at a variety of festivals including Tribeca Film Festival. Currently he is working on his debut feature, Boat People.
TE AMO TANTO, PERO ERES TAN DIFÍCIL
Filmmaker: Berenicé Brino
Year: 2024
Length: 12 mins
Language: English
Country: USA
Te amo tanto, pero eres tan difícil reimagines the relationship between mother and daughter as they traverse the tropics and topics in a series of travels through tender and emotionally charged terrains, finding parallels amongst differences and bonds through reflection. *This presentation is a work in progress.
About the filmmaker
Berenicé Brino is an artist and filmmaker born in Santo Domingo and raised in Hialeah, FL. Her work explores the depths of vulnerability, intimacy, and memory. She employs video, photography, words, and performance to explore themes of intergenerational conflict, chosen family dynamics, matriarchal spiritualism, and the unwavering grapple between revolution and tradition, particularly by analyzing the nature of identity and systems of oppression. Brino received her BFA in Performing Arts from the New World School of the Arts (2014) in Miami.
ART: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
Filmmaker: Rachelle Salnave
Year: 2024
Length: 29 mins
Languages: English and Kweyol, with English subtitles
Countries: USA, Haiti, Guadeloupe
Art: By Any Means Necessary follows the defiance of two art institutions in the Caribbean: one closed but squatted by artists, the other fighting to stay open. Against the backdrop of political strife, Haitian and Guadeloupean artists grapple with the concept of freedom in their battle to preserve their spaces.
About the filmmaker
Rachelle Salnave is a filmmaker based in South Florida who focuses her lens on the Black global experience. Salnave was part of the first class of Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive Fellows in Miami in 2015. Her second feature documentary, La Belle Vie: The Good Life landed her an Emmy nomination in 2016. Rachelle’s most recent film, Madame Pipi (2021), is currently streaming on PBS’ Reel South program. Salnave is currently in production on her next feature documentary, Dual Citizen.
SUMMON
Filmmaker: Nile Saulter & Shamar Watt
Year: 2024
Length: 9 mins
Language: English
Countries: USA, Jamaica
Summon follows Suno, a young dancer torn between his Jamaican roots and life in Miami, USA. The story intricately weaves together past and present, as Suno grapples with questions of identity and belonging.
About the filmmaker
Nile Saulter is a Jamaican director whose short films have been screened at film festivals, gallery events, and special shows all over the world. Nile is currently in pre-production on his first feature film, Escape to Last Man Peak.
Shamar Wayne Watt is an artist born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Miami. What drives Watt as an artist is the science of Black bodies and how the sonic science of Blackness resonates in the world and the infinite universe. Watt was a 2018 Bessie Nominee and in 2019 he was the recipient of the prestigious Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in Nora Chipaumire’s work.
SOL Y MAR
Filmmaker: Greko Sklavounos
Year: 2024
Length: 18 mins
Language: English
Country: USA
Miami is shrouded in darkness; glimmers of light and laboring bodies in shadow begin to form an abstracted portrait of a city with a precarious future *This presentation is a work in progress..
About the filmmaker
Greko Sklavounos received a BFA in film from Florida State University (2007) and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016). His work engages with memory and mythology at the personal, cultural, and transgenerational levels. Sklavounos’ films have been screened internationally at festivals including the Athens International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Miami Film Festival.
ANA Y LA DISTANCIA
Filmmaker: Hansel Porras García
Year: 2024
Length: 10 mins
Language: Spanish, with English subtitles
Country: USA
Ana y la Distancia tells the story of a Cuban mother, exiled in Miami, as she anxiously waits for her son who, after the anti-government protests that occurred in Cuba in July 2021, decided to cross borders to reunite with her in the United States.
About the filmmaker
Hansel Porras García (Pinar del Río, Cuba. 1994), is an actor and filmmaker. He graduated from the National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba, and the Center of Cinematography, Arts and TV (CCAT) in Miami. In 2021, he was selected as an Oolite Arts Cinematic Resident, to produce his micro-budget debut feature film Febrero. He is currently working on his short film 23 Semanas which is being developed as part of the White Elephant Group (WEG) Short Film Lab, commissioned by After School Film Institute (ASFI). He strives to tell stories that reflect the Hispanic multiculturalism of Miami, focusing on the Cuban community, and exploring themes related to sexuality, family, and the individual-society-nature relationship, among others.
