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Passage

Country: Bahamas, Language: English, 17 mins

  • Director: Kareem Mortimer
  • Writer: Kareem Mortimer
  • Producer: Marc Boothe; Lucy Hannah

CGiii Comment

Powerful. Heartbreaking. Accomplished.

Mr Mortimer is evolving into a fine filmmaker.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Passage centers around a group of Haitians locked in the hold of a fishing vessel being smuggled through the Bahamas into the United States. On these vessels communicable diseases such as dysentery is deadly and if individuals get sick they are thrown overboard. The story is focused of Sandrine, a seventeen year old girl who must hide the fact that her brother Etienne is sick in order to save his life.

Cast & Characters

Dana J. Ferguson as Sandrine;
Jason Elwood Hanna as Pedro;
Aulenna Robinson as Anna;
Stephen Tyrone Williams;
Lorenz Wright as Etienne