The Hairouna Film Festival (HFF), the first festival of its kind will be held in St Vincent and the Grenadines next month.
The festival director is Aiko Roudette, a Vincentian filmmaker who works primarily in video editing and videography.
The festival is being held in partnership with Third Horizon, a Miami-based Caribbean filmmaking collective and media company.
“HFF aims to bring St Vincent and the Grenadines into a movement that is occurring across the region.
“We hope that it will help to inspire, educate and motivate Vincentian filmmakers. An important objective of this festival is to diversify films available to the Vincentian population”.
The festival will screen Caribbean films exposing Vincentians not only to an alternative experience to Hollywood, but an alternative specifically rooted in Caribbean culture.
The festival is titled after St Vincent and the Grenadines’ indigenous name “as an important objective of the festival is to bring Vincentians closer to their culture, history and collective Caribbean roots” the festival organizers said in a document.
