You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema

Born from a period of intense political upheaval, these radical Caribbean films spotlight vital stories of workers’ movements, decolonial struggle, and liberation from economic exploitation and violent oppression. Including urgent, on-the-ground accounts of revolutionary movements (HAITI: THE WAY TO FREEDOM, GRENADA: THE FUTURE COMING TOWARDS US), dynamic portraits of women on the frontlines of resistance (WOMEN OF SURINAME, SWEET SUGAR RAGE), and a one-of-a-kind diasporic musical revue (WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY), they blend agitprop and grassroots pedagogy with living folk traditions to forge a collective counter-cinema built around the fight for freedom.