Part of Upstate Films’ Caribbean Mini-Fest.
Food and Music provided by Divinely Delicious Foods, who is on a mission to dismantle poverty, hunger, and social injustice by equipping individuals with the tools to reclaim their futures.
We celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day by bringing the Caribbean to the Orpheum. Columbus first landed in U.S. territory in Salt River Bay, of bioluminescent splendor, on the northside of St. Croix, USVI, where he encountered the enslaved Taino and dominant Carib peoples. We often think of island life as simple—blue skies and pristine beaches come to mind. There are plenty of those, but as Cynthia McVay describes in her book about St. Croix, Under the Crucian Sun: A Memoir of Place, and as depicted in the classic Rockers (1978), islands are packed with complexity, born of centuries of layered colonialism, brutal history and cultures careening into one another.
In this 1970s dramatic comedy starring Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace, Richard “Dirty Harry” Hall and Monica Craig that takes place in Kingston, Jamaica, Horsemouth starts a business buying and selling reggae records across the island until his motorcycle gets stolen. To get back his record-transport, he enlists the help of his friends and legendary reggae musicians to regain what is rightfully his. (dir. Theodoros Bafaloukos, Jamaica, 1978, 100 min.)
“Refuses to indulge in common stereotypes about Jamaica, and offers a celebration of reggae that peers into the island nation’s soul.” —Cinema Escapist
