Caribbean Beat — September/October 2017 (#147)

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SNAPSHOT Stories like ours As a twelve-year-old in Barbados, Jason Jeffers was given a book about Alfred Hitchcock, starting a lifelong fascination with film. With his award-winning short documentary Papa Machete, he set out to tell the kind of Caribbean story that doesn’t make it into mainstream narratives. And, as he explains to Nailah Folami Imoja, the same objective drives the Third Horizon Film Festival, which Jeffers founded in Miami last year: to change the image of the Caribbean in the popular imagination Photography courtesy Third Horizon 40 WWW.CARIBBEAN-BEAT.COM
“ Caribbean history is more important now, in these times when we are dealing with Brexit and Trump and the concept of diversity, than ever before,” says filmmaker Jason Jeffers. “There is nowhere more diverse than the Caribbean. If you want to investigate diversity, the Caribbean, as a laboratory, can provide profound insight into what the modern world is dealing with.” Jeffers is clearly passionate about his role in exploring diversity and sharing his discoveries, through film and music, with others.“I recognise the need to educate my audience about the art, music, and film of the Caribbean,” he adds. “There is a need to re-educate people’s definition of the Caribbean — to recreate the popular imagination.” At the age of thirty-seven, Jeffers is doing just that, with an award-winning and internationally celebrated short film, Papa Machete (co-written with Keisha Rae Witherspoon), under his belt, along with production credits for two other recognised shorts, Swimming in Your Skin Again and Dolfun. Born in Canada to Barbadian Margaret and Montserratian Hugh (now deceased), Jeffers moved to Barbados at the age of three. He received his primary, secondary, and tertiary education there, studying law, information technology, and English literature at the Barbados Community College. “I’ve always had this strong sense of justice, so I thought for a minute that I would be a lawyer,” he says, “but then I felt I could find more justice through the pen than in the courtroom. So I went to Florida International University and studied journalism for three years.” “Part of our initiative is to change the narrative of movies so that Caribbean people, particularly children, can see themselves on screen,” says Jason Jeffers Opposite page Still from Papa Machete Below Jason Jeffers WWW.CARIBBEAN-AIRLINES.COM 41
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