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BREAKOUT FILM ENTRIES DUE

 

Breakout Film Festival is currently accepting submissions for its July short film contest.

The Breakout Film Festival is an international short film festival that holds a monthly short film contest, January to December. Monthly winners are awarded an official selection laurel.

In January 2021, the winning short film of each monthly contest will be screened at an annual live event in Edinburgh, Scotland when an overall winner will be chosen, and awarded $500 USD.

 

 

Art Bytes

The Windrush generation is in vogue again. Now a walkway on the Tilbury Bridge that they used on arrival in the UK, has been turned into an art installation to honour them.

Unbroken, the docu-film based on amputee Laron Williamson’s attempt to qualify for the Jamaican Paralympic team, won Best Documentary Short Film at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival.

To commemorate the Windrush generation, Hackney will unveil two sculptures next year.

London-born fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner’s Jamaican roots were on full-display during Highsnobiety’s ‘Not In Paris’ exhibit.

While Haitan-born trapper and merchant, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, is often called the “Founder of Chicago,” Jamaican Ephraim Martin, want to honour the memory of his fellow West Indian even fu

Visitors to California’s Luxe Art Institute will get to enjoy the work of Jamaican artist Cosmo Whyte from September 12th to November 7th 2020.

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