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Features

CARGO

Writer/Director/Producer

A sensitive fisherman transforms into a prolific human smuggler. Winner of four festival awards and stars Warren Brown, Omar Dorsey, Gessica Geneus, Jimmy Jean Louis and Persia White

WIND JAMMERS

Producer/Co-Director


An American teenage girl, Justice, moves to the Caribbean with her father and discovers a strange world. Justice learns to overcome difficult obstacles through the sport of sailing..

CHILDREN OF GOD

Wrier/Director/Producer

The story of two young Bahamian men who fall in love with each other and portrays the homophobia of the Bahamian society. Winner of 18 Awards .

Documentaries

CHARTERED COURSE

Director

  

Chartered Course is an accurate portrayal of the character, charm, and sportsmanship of the remarkable gentleman, successful businessman, and philanthropist, Durward Knowles. The film covers 90 years of Durward’s life.

i am not a dummy

Director

  

Michael Wells was born through a breached birth and was pulled from out the womb by his feet, suffering severe neurological damage. This film follows Michael’s journey to get published, the daily challenges faced by his seventy-four-year-old caregiver and father, and his tireless fight as an advocate for the rights of the disabled.

Shorts

PASSAGE

Writer/Director

Passage centers around a group of Haitians locked in the hold of a fishing vessel being smuggled into the United States. Winner of ten awards including African Movie Academy Award.

FLOAT

Writer/Director

The story of a young painter, who travels to an exotic island to find inspiration but finds unexpected love and adventure in a complex and tortured Romeo. Winner of Five Awards.

SHE

Director

  

SHE examines the lives of several female impersonators living in the Caribbean during the annual Ms. Drag Bahamas beauty contest.

CHANCE

Writer/Director

A young woman is stalked by a homeless man on a deserted train.

Art films

THE NAKED TRUTH

Video Instillation that explores race, class, gender and sexuality.

WITNESS

Video installation exploring the lives of three very different and unique transgender women.

Exhibitions: 

Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Scotland

Golden Thread Gallery- Belfast, Northern Ireland




BACK TO NASSAU

Video Installation that explores the concept of loneliness and migration.

Exhibitions:  National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

Television

THIS IS PARADISE

HIP HOP NATION: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

EXTRAORDINARY CUISINE

Creator/ Writer

Comedy Series Web/TV

A black woman and a white woman discover they are sisters after their father takes ill, forcing them to work together at a dilapidated hotel

EXTRAORDINARY CUISINE

HIP HOP NATION: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

EXTRAORDINARY CUISINE

Showrunner Lifestyle

Season 1, 2

  

Hosted by Julia Burnside, this show features extraordinary chefs using staple ingredients and transforming them into extraordinary cuisine.

HIP HOP NATION: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

HIP HOP NATION: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

HIP HOP NATION: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

Segment Producer, Documentary Series

Produced short documentaries through interviewing Hip Hop luminaries, b-boys, designers and DJ'S

BAHAMAS@SUNRISE

Segment Producer, Morning Show

2005-2006

Produced human interest taped segments that aired on morning show.

Theatre

PASTOR'S LITTLE PROBLEM

PASTOR'S LITTLE PROBLEM

PASTOR'S LITTLE PROBLEM

Playwright

Winner of National Arts Award

A one-act play that shows the last moments of a marriage between a man of God and his philandering wife

CLYBOURNE PARK

PASTOR'S LITTLE PROBLEM

PASTOR'S LITTLE PROBLEM

Director

Bahamian Production of The Play

 The award winning play by Bruce Norris written as a spin-off to  Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin In The Sun.

MEMOIRS OF A CHEAP DATE

PASTOR'S LITTLE PROBLEM

MEMOIRS OF A CHEAP DATE

Playwright

  

A two-act comedy where a couple gives conflicting accounts on a date gone awry.

Additional Credits

LOOKING DEEP

LOOKING DEEP

LOOKING DEEP

Podcast

Producer/Creator

BRIGIDY BRAM

LOOKING DEEP

LOOKING DEEP

Doc Feature

Director/Producer

WHEN A MAN DREAMS DREAMS

WHEN A MAN DREAMS DREAMS

WHEN A MAN DREAMS DREAMS

Doc Feature

Producer/Editor

FULL CIRCLE

WHEN A MAN DREAMS DREAMS

WHEN A MAN DREAMS DREAMS

Narrative Short

Producer

WHERE I'M FROM

A MAN WITH A VOICE

A MAN WITH A VOICE

Doc Feature

Producer/Editor

A MAN WITH A VOICE

A MAN WITH A VOICE

A MAN WITH A VOICE

Doc Feature

Editor

WOMANISH WAYS

A MAN WITH A VOICE

WOMANISH WAYS

Doc Feature

Editor

Business

BEST YET ENTERTAINMENT

Creative Director of Best Yet Entertainment, A production, development, technology, and financing entity that promotes the work of global filmmakers across varying genres.  Responsible for producing and  directing of  the company's features.

Community

BASSA (2017-2018)

Served with other board members to unite and strengthen the local film community through workshops, advocacy and networking.

Commonwealth Writers: Caribbean Voices (2020-2021)

Commonwealth Writers, the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation, is offering craft development opportunities for early-career filmmakers and screenwriters from Commonwealth Foundation member states in the Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.


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