BIFF 2016 | The House on Coco Road

Friday 9th December 2016  12:30 PM

Join us for the 13th Annual Bahamas International Film Festival December 5-11, 2016, with films showing in Harbour Island and Nassau.

Film: The House on Coco Road


BIFF 2016 | The House on Coco Road

In 1983 my mother is offered a position in the Ministry of Education and we leave our home in Oakland and move to Grenada. I?d never seen her happier. Grenada was briefly our home. In 1983 the United States led a military invasion following the assassination of the young popular Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop. We hid under the bed for three days as bombs shook our new paradise, and changed its course forever. Sixteen years later, in 1999, I returned to Grenada with my mother, and began shooting a documentary film, searching for her story, one that felt not just untold, but unfinished. In 2014, I discovered a box of family super 8 footage of my great grandmother in rural Louisiana on the land our family sharecropped and my grandmother?s migration west. I started to unravel my mother?s path to activism. I started to understand why my mother, and a group of tireless women, had put their lives on the line, daring to build a better world. You may not know their names, but they have changed the course of history.

Showtimes:
Monday, December 5 | 4:00pm | Romora Bay, Harbour Island

Friday, December 9 | 12:30pm | Galleria JFK Cinema Theatre 3


For ticket information click here.


13th Annual Bahamas International Film Festival

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