Currently in early development, Untitled Opa-locka Project is a post-alien-abduction black sci-fi drama set in Opa-locka, Florida. The project was warmly received at Sundance’s 2020 Talent Forum industry market, which resulted in grant support from both SFFilm/Westridge and Cinereach. It is part of the 2023/24 Sundance Feature Film program.
A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. T-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead. T screened at Sundance Film Festival 2020, won audience award for best short film at both BlackStar and New Orleans film festivals, and went on to win the Golden Bear for best short film at Berlinale 2020. T is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel. For additional information, visit www.madeinthecountyofdade.com
1968<2018>2068 is a meditation on cyclical time theory and the recurring shadows that lie within our collective memory. The working film premiered at the Schmidt Center Gallery as part of the 2018 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual & Media Artists Fellowship Exhibition, and in 2019 at MoMA PS1 for the inaugural Black Women’s Film Conference with New Negress Film Society. 1968<2018>2068 is now streaming on The Criterion Channel.
A young man deals with his dysfunctional home life and comes of age in Miami during the "War on Drugs" era. The story of his struggle to find himself is told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love while grappling with his own sexuality.
With interests in the mysterious subjects of magick, mythology, Native traditions and the occult, performance artist and dancer Ana Mendez walks the observer through her isolated home-studio space in Miami. What starts in a bright grotto of bones, relics and photographs morphs into the night, where an other-worldly realm reaches in on this otherwise straight-forward interview.
Papa Machete is a glimpse into the life of Alfred Avril, a poor farmer who lived in the hills of Jacmel, Haiti. He also happened to be a master of the mysterious martial art of Haitian machete fencing, known as tire machèt. The short film world-premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and had its U.S. premiere at Sundance Film Festival. Papa Machete was produced by Third Horizon and Borscht Corp.
Acclaimed director Terence Nance's Swimming in Your Skin Again, a short film about motherhood, banality, Miami, the water, the divine feminine, and how to sing in church in a way that calls forth your own adulthood, was commissioned and produced by Borscht Corp. for the 2014 Borscht Film Festival, co-produced by Third Horizon. The film later had its world premiere at the 2015 International Film Festival Rotterdam, and also screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
