- Website: http://www.childrenofgodthemovie.com
- Starring: Van
Brown, Johnny Ferro Mark Ford, Margaret Kemp, Stephen Tyrone Williams
- Screenplay
By: Kareem J. Mortimer
- Directed By: Kareem J.
Mortimer
- Produced By: Trevite Willis, Richard Lemay,
Kareem Mortimer, Jay Gotlieb
- Awards:
- 2010 Feature to
Watch, The Independent
2010 Audience Award, Best Narrative
Newfest
2010 Best Film, Hawaii Rainbow Film Festival
- 2010
Best Gay Film, Ft. Worth Q cinema
2010 Audience Award Turin GLBT
Film Festival
- Plot Outline:
Set against the backdrop of a nation
grappling with violent homophobic crime and offering a scathing
examination of the underlying hatred for gays rampant in Caribbean
societies, Bahamian Kareem Mortimer's debut narrative feature tells the
stories of three very different individuals: Lena, the conservative,
deeply religious wife of a secretly gay firebrand pastor; Romeo, a
handsome young black man hiding his sexuality from his close-knit and
loving family; and Jonny, the conflicted and creatively-blocked white
artist in search of himself. All three head for the spectacularly
beautiful and tranquil island of Eleuthera, each with a different reason
for escaping current circumstances. Soon, their disparate worlds
collide in unexpected and affecting ways. This uncommon portrayal of
love, loneliness, tolerance, secrets and self-acceptance takes viewers
on a poignant multifaceted journey that is enlightening, courageous, and
disquieting all at the same time, and which shocks to the very core
with its startling conclusion.
-Tom Davia Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Children-of-God/60146471469?v=info
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