The BFM International Film Festival, to which CBFF is a sister festival has recently announced both selections of local filmmaker Powys Dewhurst’s ‘Delroy Kincaid: Where do white people go when the long weekend comes’ and ‘Who Are You Wearin’?” to its 2009 festival line up.

Delroy Kincaid features former Olympian and Cirque Du Soliel performer Stella Umeh in a leading role and also includes the work of award-winning black graphic novelist Ho Che Anderson, recent Sheridan grad Jason Mackay and Quebec composer Benjamin Walken Beladi (SOCAN). Stunning cinematography is provided by Rhett Morita CSC, Powys Dewhurst and Joshua Allen, with celebrated producer Andy Marshall taking one of the producer credits along with Powys Dewhurst and introduces Jwoel Benn as Delroy Kincaid.

Delroy Kincaid is a unique kind of short film made on a limited budget, told from the perspective of black immigrant child moving to a nondescript ‘first world’ country, where the struggles and changes which Delroy faces are manifested through a vivid and well-visualized imagination. The film successfully blends a fantasy world and powerfully revealing imagination, to the social issues which Delroy’s new environment engenders. It was made without dialogue to be lyrical, akin to visual poetry.

Delroy Kincaid is a subtle Canadian story made on a limited budget that addresses many issues of death, emotional imprisonment, loneliness, fear, loss, alienation and displacement that many Caribbean immigrant children face around the world, but in a unique way to Canada.

Currently playing globally across the festival circuit this innovative piece of Canadian filmmaking has already scooped awards at the Kenya International Film Festival, the 42nd WorldFest (Houston, Texas), the Worldwide Short Film Festival and the Reelworld Indie Lounge Emerging 20.

Do not miss another chance to catch this groundbreaking short at the opening and closing night screenings of the 2009 CBFF and also be sure to look out for future works from our very own Powys Dewhurst.