Alison Sealy-Smith
Nacimiento : 1958-11-30, Barbados
Historia
Emotionally compelling actor and director, born in the Barbados in 1959. Alison Sealy-Smith studied psychology at Mount Allison University, and has been active in Canadian theatre for over thirty-five years.
In 1981, she joined the Pelican Players, Canada's first multicultural community theatre. She returned to the Barbados in 1982 with her daughter, and acted in plays by Earl Warner. Without a formal acting education, she learned from directors and actors. Following her return to Canada 1985, she performed with the Pelican Players in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in other theatre festivals in England and Holland. During the 1980s, she worked with community theatres such as Ground Zero Productions, Theatre Outreach, Theatre Fountainhead, Theatre in Exile, and the Imani Theatre Ensemble.
Myrtle
Dexter Gooding (Kirk Brown), an ex-convict, deported from the US returns to his homeland to find his beloved community Bakers Village engulfed in crime. The police are out-gunned and out-numbered. Rape, murder and robbery plague his once beautiful paradise. Armed with guilt of past crimes and a genuine passion for his birthplace, Dexter takes on the mission of Vigilante. In true Robin Hood style, Dexter mercilessly seeks to eradicate Bakers Village of all criminals. Its on this very ruthless path, he meets Amy (Malissa Alana), a white Barbadian woman, who is on a similar mission and their worlds collide. Black and white, rich and poor, upper and lower class, and as the their paths cross...the historical cap of racial, class and social prejudice, violently erupts and suddenly threatens the mission. Love, hate, passion, guilt and prejudice all meet head on and Dexter and his beloved Bakers Village are now at a Crossroad.
Doris Rainford
Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley), asesino a sueldo y alcoholico, decide abandonar el mundo de crimen e instalarse en California. Allí comienza a trabajar en una morgue y se enamora de una chica (Tea Leoni) que ha ido a reconocer el cuerpo de un pariente muerto, cuyo cadáver Frank debe embalsamar.
La vida de dos gemelas idénticas, Heather y Erica, se desmorona cuando David, el hijo pequeño de Heather, muere en un accidente de tráfico. Sarah, la hija de Erica, empieza a actuar de un modo extraño, que hace sospechar que se comunica con David. Esta situación acaba enfrentando a las hermanas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Supervisor
Dahlia Williams empieza una nueva vida. Acaba de separarse, tiene un nuevo trabajo y un nuevo apartamento y está decidida a pasar página en su matrimonio y dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a su hija Ceci de cinco años. Pero cuando su estresante separación se convierte en una batalla por la custodia de la niña, su ya frágil estado psicológico empieza a desmoronarse. Su nuevo apartamento -desvencijado, abarrotado y destruido- parece tomar vida propia. Ruidos misteriosos emanan del apartamento vacío del piso de arriba y hay una fuga de agua oscura permanente en el techo del dormitorio. Se deja llevar por la imaginación y es incapaz de distinguir entre fantasía y realidad. No tiene fuerzas para averiguar quién está detrás de unos diabólicos juegos mentales.
Dr. Franks
Taylor Brooks (Clare Kramer) es una estudiante joven y atractiva que está decidida a convertirse en el primer miembro femenino de la poderosa sociedad secreta "The Skulls". Después de obligar al Consejo a incluirla en los ritos de iniciación de la selecta hermandad, Taylor se ve pronto sumida en un siniestro mundo de engaño, intimidación y asesinato... (FILMAFFINITY)
Marisol
Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) es una joven que lleva toda la vida queriendo mostrarle al mundo su talento para la danza. Ambiciosa y trabajadora, siempre ha aspirado a convertirse en coreógrafa, pero nunca lo ha tenido demasiado fácil, porque incluso su familia nunca ha creído que pueda llegar a lo más alto. Decidió mudarse al corazón de la ciudad, dejando una vida que podría haber sido mucho más fácil. Y todo para conseguir hacer realidad sus sueños.
Cub's Mother
Little Bear and Father Bear go camping in the wilderness where Little Bear encounters all kinds of new sights and sounds: an eagle's flight, a wolf's howl... and a wild little bear named Cub fishing in a stream. Even though they're from different worlds, Little Bear and Cub become fast friends.
Ruth
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
Diner #2
Loretta Sinclair (Alfre Woodard) es una mujer al borde de la autodestrucción en un peligroso barrio de Chicago, donde el tráfico de drogas y la violencia están a la orden del día. Sin embargo, una oportunidad de renacer se le presenta cuando es acogida por su tío Earl (Al Freeman Jr.) en el hogar ancestral de la familia Sinclair en una pequeña población rural de Mississipi. Loretta descubrirá el valor de la familia y recuperará su autoestima. Esta película marca el debut tras las cámaras de la aclamada autora afroamericana Maya Angelou.
Rude Caller
This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an abortion and lost her lover ; Jordan, a boxer who has indulged in gay-bashing ; and 'The General', a drug dealer turned artist.
Woman #1
Some time after her messy divorce, Fanny Connelyn realises her ex-husband is becoming her best friend.
