Island Mentality: Resource Fear in Small Communities
Explore how island mentality affects perceptions of resource scarcity and immigration, from Antigua's shores to Brexit's impact in the UK.
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The Marché du Film, in Theory
The buyers are in Cannes because that is where the other buyers are. The system reproduces itself not because anyone decided to exclude the filmmaker from Burkina Faso but because no one decided, specifically and deliberately, to include her.
Where the Films Don't Go
The distribution gap is not a romantic problem. Filmmakers who cannot distribute their work cannot fund their next film. Audiences who cannot access stories from their own cultural heritage lose something they may not be able to name but will feel across a lifetime.
Everything Is a Trade Agreement
A film made in Los Angeles has access to distribution networks, financing structures, and platform relationships that a film made in Dakar, Bridgetown, or Luanda simply does not. This is not because the American film is better. The variable is infrastructure.
The Ones Who Made It Anyway
A reflection on artists, writers, and filmmakers who created outside the mainstream—and what it cost to have their work seen across borders.