It felt necessary to split the Jamaica Now! Program overview in two parts. The program consisting of seven short presented at the 38th Uppsala International Short Film festival, has shown two main easy to tell apart thematic focuses.
At the 38th edition of the Uppsala International Short Film Festival, seven short films were presented within the frames of the Jamaica Now! program, curated by the president of Jamaica Film and Television Association (JAFTA) Analisa Chapman, and presented by her close collaborator, and Jafta’s board member Noelle Kerr.
Noelle Kerr and the rest of the JAFTA board have been actively working on the development & promotion of Jamaican film for many years. JAFTA helps build a local filmmaking community through a number of initiatives that…
American director Jianna Maarten dedicates her 7th short to “the thousands of women in Mexico who have disappeared and the families who still look for them”
An old man ( Yousef Daryadel) is working as a night guard in a large industrial complex. Apart from him and his dog, there is no living soul around.
Everything looks perfectly fine in Ming’s (Qingge Gao) life until a strange incident at a stage rehearsal of a patriotic play occurs, involving lots of splashed paint.
Ghost Turd, finely subtitled A Twisted Tale From The Mind of Cheese Whiskers deals literally with what it says it does – with a ghost turd. The stinky creature is punishing dog owners who don’t clean after their pets
As a large number of people is using dating apps to find potential partners, the chances they will run into perverts and/ or lunatics are high. But what happens when an app insists you’ve got a match date, although you never liked the person in the first place?
In Z-Goat: First Bleat, the goat-horned beast (Simon Damamme) is not the biblical creature from the “Book of Revelation”, but it does declare death to anyone who doesn’t worship its authority.
