Loudreaders Session 46
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers
Thursday, January 18, 2024 6:00pm CT
Read Toward a Third Cinema by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas here.
Read Novel and History, Plot and Plantation by Sylvia Wynter here.
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a filmmaker from Barbados who has produced award-winning short films that have screened at festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, BlackStar, and TIFF. More recently, he co-directed the short film “Drowning by Sunrise” for The Intercept, and produced “T”, the 2020 winner of the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at Berlinale. He is a co-founder and former festival director of Third Horizon Film Festival in Miami, a showcase of cinema from the Caribbean, its diaspora, and the Global South that was named "One of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World" by MovieMaker Magazine in 2019 and again in 2021. For his work at the intersection of filmmaking, social justice, and community-building, Jeffers was named a 2023 USA fellow, a 2022 USC Annenberg Civic Media fellow, as well as a 2019 Ford Foundation / Rockwood Leadership Institute JustFilms fellow. Prior to his work in film, he was a journalist with The Miami Herald and other South Florida publications.
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a filmmaker from Barbados who has produced award-winning short films that have screened at festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, BlackStar, and TIFF. More recently, he co-directed the short film “Drowning by Sunrise” for The Intercept, and produced “T”, the 2020 winner of the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at Berlinale. He is a co-founder and former festival director of Third Horizon Film Festival in Miami, a showcase of cinema from the Caribbean, its diaspora, and the Global South that was named "One of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World" by MovieMaker Magazine in 2019 and again in 2021. For his work at the intersection of filmmaking, social justice, and community-building, Jeffers was named a 2023 USA fellow, a 2022 USC Annenberg Civic Media fellow, as well as a 2019 Ford Foundation / Rockwood Leadership Institute JustFilms fellow. Prior to his work in film, he was a journalist with The Miami Herald and other South Florida publications.
