Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Third Horizon Film Festival (THFF) kick off a series of three screening events, each comprising of a feature-length film and a short from the Caribbean and its diaspora, followed by a conversation with select film directors. On April 27, the series begins with films It Runs in the Family and Dadli followed by a talk back with the feature filmmaker, Victoria Linares Villegas.
April 27 Program
In-person Screening
Feature Film
It Runs in the Family (Victoria Linares Villegas / 2022 / Dominican Republic / 84’)
Victoria Linares is a filmmaker from the Dominican Republic. Her late uncle, Oscar Torres, was also a filmmaker, a pioneering artist who became virtually forgotten. A revelation concerning Oscar sends Victoria down a path of (self-)discovery, through reconstructions of Oscar’s intimate memories of living in the Caribbean in the 1950s and early 1960s, first under the Trujillo dictatorship in the DR, then in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. In an attempt to honor Oscar’s memory, Victoria leads enactments of his unproduced screenplays with the family who erased him.
From the Dominican Republic, Victoria Linares studied film production at the New School in New York City. She is the director of several short fiction and documentary films. It Runs in the Family is her first feature film. Her latest feature, Ramona, premiered in 2023.
Short Film
Dadli (Shabier Kirchner / 2018 / Antigua / 14’)
In this impressionistic documentary portrait, Tiquan, a 13-year-old Antiguan, recounts bits of his daily life in his small village and community. Shabier Kirchner, born and raised in Antigua and Barbuda, travels the world as a cinematographer and was selected as one of the 10 Cinematographers to Watch by Variety (2018). Dadli is Shabier’s first work as a director. This short will also be available on PAMM TV.
