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501c(3) Conch Shell Productions Inc presents Conch Shell Internationall Film Fest 🎬 Celebrating Caribbean Diaspora & Caribbean Filmmaking 🎞

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8 DAYS UNTIL CSIFF26! 🌴

Why should you come to the Conch Shell International Film Fest?
Don’t just take our word for it—hear it from the filmmakers themselves. 🎥

From powerful stories and bold voices to the connections, conversations, and community that make a festival unforgettable, CSIFF26 is more than a screening—it’s an experience.

⏳ 8 MORE DAYS.
🎞️ October 9–11
📍 New York City

The countdown is on. Grab your tickets now and come experience the stories for yourself.

🎟️ Tickets & full festival schedule: https://zurl.co/2tfLA

#CSIFF26 #ConchShellInternationalFilmFest #FilmFestival #CaribbeanCinema by @conchshelliff

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🎬 FILM BLOCK 2: SHIFTING REALITIES

What happens when reality begins to bend?

Finding Syn. ADRIFT WAK LEU. Noche Noir. ADAN NANM EK KÒ. Where the Waves End. Sonshine.

Six films. Six perspectives. Stories that move between the real and the imagined, the internal and the external—exploring identity, memory, confinement, transformation, longing, and the worlds we create to make sense of our own.

From a woman confronting trauma through poetry on the walls of her prison cell to stories that blur the boundaries between what we experience and what we perceive, Shifting Realities invites you to see the world a little differently.

🎞️ FINDING SYN
🎞️ ADRIFT WAK LEU
🎞️ NOCHE NOIR
🎞️ ADAN NANM EK KÒ
🎞️ WHERE THE WAVES END
🎞️ SONSHINE

Six filmmakers. Six worlds. One film block that asks you to question what’s real.

📅 CSIFF26 | October 9–11
🎟️ Explore the full schedule, film synopses & tickets: https://zurl.co/Nusba

#CSIFF26 #ConchShellInternationalFilmFest #ShiftingRealities #CaribbeanCinema #CaribbeanFilm by @conchshelliff

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🎬 HOW PLAYWRIGHTS BREAK INTO FILM & TV

You’ve written the play. Now, how do you make the leap to the screen?

Join award-winning playwright and television writer/producer Nambi E. Kelley as she moderates a conversation with two powerhouse storytellers who have made that journey themselves.

Laura Eason brings her experience from the stage to television, with credits including House of Cards and The Loudest Voice, and as showrunner and executive producer of Starz’s Three Women.

Tracey Scott Wilson has taken her voice from the stage to projects including The Americans, Fosse/Verdon, and The Morning Show, as well as the feature film Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson.

Together, they’ll get real about breaking into TV, translating a theatrical voice to the screen, navigating the writers’ room, collaboration, and finding your pathway from playwriting to film and television.

🎭 Moderator: Nambi E. Kelley
🎬 Panelists: Laura Eason + Tracey Scott Wilson

📅 October 9, 2026
⏰ 2:00–3:00 PM
📍 HB Theatre
124 Bank Street, New York, NY

Come with a play. Leave thinking about your pathway to the screen.

🎟️ Tickets & info: https://zurl.co/AOSND by @conchshelliff

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Caribbean stories belong on the big screen. 🎬

The Conch Shell International Film Fest returns October 9-11 with 42 films by Caribbean-heritage filmmakers representing 14 countries and territories. Join CSIFF26 for industry panels in Manhattan, then screenings, red carpets, filmmaker Q&As, and awards in Forest Hills, Queens.

I will be on the RED CARPET....

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW 👇

USE CODE 👉 CSIFFcb 👉 FOR 20%OFF

🎟️ Tickets + schedule: www.conchshelliff.com

MEDIA PARTNER @Caribbeanbrillance
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@conchshelliff #CSIFF26 #CaribbeanCinema #OurCultureLivesInOurStories by @conchshelliff

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🇹🇹🎬 SHE CAME TO TRINIDAD TO SAY GOODBYE. THE ISLAND HAD OTHER PLANS.

British-born Nikki reluctantly travels to Trinidad to scatter the ashes of her estranged grandmother.

It should be simple.

Except she’s traveling with her free-wheeling cousin Jade. Their car is unreliable. The two women couldn’t be more different. And then a disturbing encounter changes the journey completely.

Suddenly, Nikki is seeing Trinidad—and her connection to it—differently.
TRINIDAD REMAINS, from British-Trinidadian writer-director Karen Martinez, takes us across the island on a journey through family, identity, belonging and the unexpected mysteries of home.

🇹🇹 Come experience Trinidad on the BIG SCREEN at CSIFF26.
📅 October 9–11, 2026
📍 Regal UA Midway | Forest Hills, Queens
🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS → Link in bio
Trinis in NYC—this one’s calling you home. Who are you bringing? 🇹🇹👇🏾

#TrinidadRemains #TrinidadAndTobago #TriniFilm #TrinidadFilm #CaribbeanCinema #CaribbeanFilmmakers #CSIFF2026 #ConchShellIFF by @conchshelliff

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🇬🇵🇲🇶 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ONLY PERSON YOU TRUST IS ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR?

Elisa is an eccentric middle school student who is being bullied. Jessie is her only friend.

Then Elisa discovers that Jessie plans to run away with an adult.
She has to stop her.
What begins as a desperate attempt to protect her friend pulls Elisa into a world she never knew existed—and toward a choice that could change everything.

🎬 THE BRITTLE LITTLE ONES comes to CSIFF26 from a filmmaking team with roots in Guadeloupe and Martinique: Jade Andrivon, Laura Cuvillier, Clémentine Damico, Régis Raphaël Marton and Samuel Roussas.
Five emerging Caribbean creatives bringing together backgrounds in cinematography, editing, photography, visual effects, production, acting and film criticism to tell one unsettling story.

🇬🇵 Guadeloupe. 🇲🇶 Martinique. On the big screen in New York.
👀 Would you risk everything to stop your best friend from making a dangerous choice?
🎟️ See THE BRITTLE LITTLE ONES at CSIFF26
📅 October 9–11, 2026
📍 Regal UA Midway | Forest Hills, Queens
🔗 Tickets: link in bio
Send this to someone who wants to discover more French Caribbean cinema.
#TheBrittleLittleOnes #Guadeloupe #Martinique #FrenchCaribbean #CaribbeanCinema #CaribbeanFilmmakers #CSIFF2026 #ConchShellIFF by @conchshelliff

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Cuba. Puerto Rico. The Dominican Republic. Belize. 🎬

Nine films. Nine different worlds.
A nine-year-old waiting backstage while her mother makes history.
A granddaughter discovering her family through her grandmother.
Siblings stranded in the desert on the way to a wedding.
A mysterious stranger. A futuristic noir world.
And two rookie aliens deciding what to do about Earth. 👽
At CSIFF26, filmmakers with roots in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic & Belize show us just how wide-ranging Caribbean cinema can be.
Meet the filmmakers. Discover a film you weren’t planning to see. Leave knowing an artist you didn’t know before.
📍 Oct. 10–11 | Regal UA Midway | Forest Hills, Queens
🎟️ Schedule + tickets: LINK IN BIO
OUR CULTURE LIVES IN OUR STORIES.
#CSIFF26 #CaribbeanCinema #CaribbeanFilm #CubanFilmmakers #PuertoRicanFilmmakers #DominicanFilmmakers #BelizeanFilmmakers #IndieFilm #NYCFilmFestival by @conchshelliff

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🌍🎬 FILM BLOCK 1: DIASPORA STORIES

Stories of identity, home, heritage, family, and the many ways the diaspora carries culture forward.

Join us for Diaspora Stories, featuring six films that journey across communities and cultures—from Atlanta to Haiti, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad, and beyond.

🎞️ STRIKING THREADS – THE ATLANTA WASHING SOCIETY — 16 min
🎞️ LAST HOORAH AT G-BABY'S
🎞️ SEASICK
🎞️ NOW, HEAR ME GOOD
🎞️ THE MAKING OF A MATRIARCH: LA CREACIÓN DE UNA MATRIARCA
🎞️ ISAIAH'S GLASS GOES DOWN EASY

📅 October 10
⏰ 12 PM
📍 Regal Midway
108-22 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills, NY

From the Caribbean and the diaspora to places and stories beyond, these films explore the connections that bring us home.

🎟️ Tickets: ConchShellIFF.com

#CSIFF26 #ConchShellInternationalFilmFest #DiasporaStories #FilmFestival #CaribbeanCinema by @conchshelliff

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FESTIVAL AMBASSADOR ROLL CALL

We’re thrilled to welcome Marsha Stephanie Blake as an Ambassador for the Conch Shell International Film Fest! 🌴🎥

Born in Jamaica and raised in New York, Marsha has built a remarkable career across stage and screen, bringing depth, humanity, and power to every story she touches. Audiences may know her from Orange Is the New Black and her Emmy-nominated performance in When They See Us — but her creative work reaches far beyond the screen.

An actress, producer, and storyteller, Marsha continues to explore the many ways stories can be brought to life — making her a fitting voice for a festival celebrating Caribbean storytelling, creativity, and culture.

🌊 From Jamaica to New York. From the stage to the screen. From storyteller to storyteller.

We’re honored to have her with us.

Welcome to the Conch Shell family, Marsha! 💙💛

🎬 Conch Shell International Film Fest
📍 New York City
📅 October 9–11, 2026 by @conchshelliff

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🎬 You see the film in your head. But how do you get everyone else to see it too?

Join Cassandra Nicholson of ShotDeck as she moderates a conversation with CSIFF filmmakers Juliette Jeffers, Ria Vieira, Danae Grandison, and Stacey Sargeant on turning visual ideas into a shared cinematic vision.

From mood boards and references to communicating with your creative team, See What I See explores how filmmakers translate what they imagine into what everyone on set can see.

✨ SEE WHAT I SEE
📅 September 29
⏰ 2 PM Eastern
💻 Live online via YouTube + Facebook
🎞️ Sponsored by ShotDeck

See what they see. Share your vision. Tell the story.

🎟️ Tickets & info: ConchShellIFF.com

#CSIFF26 #ConchShellInternationalFilmFest #SeeWhatISee #ShotDeck by @conchshelliff

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WORLD PREMIERE @conchshelliff Sunday Oct 11th, 2026

Proud to announce that The Coquí Sings will have its World Premiere at the 2026 Conch Shell International Film Festival!

This festival holds a special place in my journey. In 2022, Conch Shell awarded @fuegosalsafilm Best Screenplay and gifted me Final Draft 12, screenwriting software that encouraged me to keep writing. And the rest is history.

Four years later, I’m returning with another story rooted in Puerto Rican culture, and I’m especially proud that The Coquí Sings is nominated for Best Animation! Huge congratulations to @angelicaagelviz for helping bring Sandra’s memories and the spirit of the coquí to life. ❤️

A special thank you to my cast and crew for giving their time, talent, and heart to this film, and to the House of Puerto Rico San Diego for opening its doors to us and helping make this story possible.

Warmly,
FrankO

#filmfestival #animation #PuertoRico #caribbean #newyorkcity taken in House of Puerto Rico San Diego by @conchshelliff

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To hear that @raizalthejaconnectiondoc has been nominated as Best Documentary at the @conchshelliff is an overwhelming feeling.

On behalf of the Raizal people thank you for sharing this story.

#Raizal #jamaicanconnection by @conchshelliff

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