Malpaso Is A Five-Hanky Movie
Third Caribbean Tales Film Festival Entry To Look At The Caribbean Identity By Stephen Weir As the 15th annual Caribbean Tales Film Festival (CTFF) “reels” towards its Saturday night conclusion we have noticed a sub theme running through three of the keynote movies that are showcased this fall. This trio of principal films is all about identity – be it race, colour or sexual orientation. Writing in the Caribbean Camera I have reviewed two of those movies in past issues of the paper; But You’re Not Black and Queer Coolie-tudes . Yesterday the paper screened the disturbing third movie, Malpaso , made by Hector Valdez, a Dominican Republic moviemaker who did his schooling in Montreal at McGill University. But You’re Not Black is a quirky 30-minute documentary made by Toronto comedian and filmmaker Danielle Ayow. She is a Chinese-Caribbean-Canadian woman who, driven by people’s inability to separate her skin colour from her culture, tries to own the Trinidadian identity she knows sh