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The 2026 Festival Theme is Collective Stories. Collective Power.
Screen Share brings together filmmakers from across the Caribbean and its diaspora whose stories illuminate the ways individuals, families, and communities navigate history, identity and transformation.
This year’s programme reveals a region in conversation with itself—through memory and myth, resistance and resilience, grief and joy. Across documentaries, narrative films, experimental works and animated stories, we encounter artists, activists, elders, dreamers and ordinary people confronting inherited wounds and tapping into inherited wisdom. These films explore the enduring legacies of colonialism, migration, environmental injustice and displacement, while celebrating the cultural traditions, creative practices and collective struggles that continue to sustain Caribbean life.
From the sounds of calypso and steelpan to the traditions of tambú and bomba to the stories carried through food, folklore, family histories and ancestral memory, these works remind us that culture is not static inheritance but a living practice of survival and renewal. Whether reclaiming silenced histories, protecting threatened landscapes, preserving community knowledge or challenging systems of exclusion, the protagonists of these films demonstrate the power of collective action and shared remembrance.
The Caribbean has long been a place where stories travel—across islands, languages, oceans, and generations. Screen Share embraces that movement. It invites audiences to witness how personal narratives become communal histories, how local struggles resonate globally and how cinema can create spaces of connection across difference and distance.
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Screen Share Jury Members
Jamil Agard
With a strong Canadian/Caribbean background anchoring his identity, Jamil has always been a cinephile with a love of Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Comedy. He has, among other things, been an executive producer, a film commissioner and a development consultant for a variety of film commissioning bodies, including the Harold Greenberg Fund, Telefilm Canada and most recently the New Dawn Film Fund.
Alicia C. Ramdeo
An emerging BIPOC producer, Alicia C. Ramdeo is a graduate of the Centennial College’s Film and Television Business (FTVB) Post-graduate Program (2022) and the 2022 Reelworld Emerging Produce cohort. Alicia has considerable experience in the short-film format having been part of the producingteams for “The Weekend” (Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival 2017); “La Maison” (Toronto Shorts International Film Festival – Official Selection 2023 – Award of Distinction 2023); The Sweetest Goodbye (Winner Best International Short Film-Cinemaz International Film Festival Brazil, 2024 and Official Selection-Valkyrie Film Festival Buffalo, NY, 2024); and “The Weight” (currently being submitted to festivals). Alicia is currently developing two features with her partner Jamil under their Toronto based production company, Boats, Dogs and Planes Productions Inc. A lawyer by trade, Alicia has a breadth of knowledge in entertainment, finance and corporate law. Alicia is always looking for opportunities to grow as a Producer and her ultimate goal is to produce kick-ass, female-driven, sci-fi, action, horror and fantasy films for a worldwide audience and utilizing crew from marginalised communities
Thomas Coe
also known as T. Coe, is an esteemed producer whose career in the film business spans more than three decades and over 50 films. Past projects include Mission: Impossible III, Jason Bourne, Twilight, Hancock, Warrior, Southpaw, S.W.A.T., and Rush Hour 2. Earlier this year he completed filming on Johara, a thriller set and shot in Saudi Arabia and is now in development with his latest film, JesLna, that will shoot in the country of Trinidad and Tobago in 2027. A 30-year member of the Director’s Guild of America, T. Coe conLnues to work internaLonally on film projects as well as mentorship iniLaLves.
Dion Boucaud
Producer/Director/Director of Photography/Editor From project conceptualisation and management through shooting, editing, and post-production, Dion Boucaud’s portfolio spans back to the 1990s. His extensive body of work includes news features, entertainment programmes, live broadcasts, magazine-format shows, corporate and personality-driven videos, dramatic shorts, documentaries, and feature-length films. Dion began his career with television stations and production companies in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as St. Kitts and Nevis. His work has since been featured on major international platforms, including Discovery, CNN, BET, BET Jazz, and Al Jazeera. With over 36 years of industry experience, Dion has led production teams across multiple regions. In North America, his work has taken him to Toronto, New York, Houston, Washington DC, and Miami; in South America, to Guyana and Suriname; and in Europe, to England and Germany. Throughout the Caribbean, he has worked in Antigua, Aruba, Barbados, Curaçao, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Maarten/Sant Martin, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. In 2009, Dion earned a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Film Production and Film Studies from the University of the West Indies, receiving several academic awards during his tenure. His work has been recognised at numerous local, regional, and international film festivals. Notable projects include Prism, Siege, Sampson’s Heart, Julia and Joyce, and Tickle Me Rich: which received a 2014 nomination for Best Diaspora Short Feature at the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). Dion is currently the owner and Creative Director of PixelPlay Media Limited.
Ben Pires
“Ben Pires is a 5 ft 7 & 3/4 member of the Screen Share Jury. Son of the late, legendary film critic and outspoken journalist BC Pires, he has been watching movies since the age of 3 and has altogether seen at least 6 movies in his life. Likely more. Ben has been involved in the making of 4 feature films in 2026 alone, is in post production for his second short film and works as a spark, grip, script editor or gardener, depending on the day. He’s passionate about movies, good gramAr, spellin. and, Properly, used punctuation. Ben considers himself an anarchist and hopes one day to be a part of a genuine West Indian film industry, where we might be able to make movies for ourselves, not a diaspora or a foreigner because they still have all our money.”
