“Vashti Anderson’s debut feature, offers a beautifully shot Trinidadian landscape as background to the roiling emotions and events on display… embrace Moko Jumbie’s haunted, profoundly cinematic musings on life, and be transformed.”
— Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Hammer to Nail
“A glimmering, memorable film.”
— Jonathan Ali, Caribbean Beat Magazine
REALITY, FANTASY, SUPERSTITION AND TRUTH COLLIDE IN
AN ACCLAIMED AND LUMINOUS CARIBBEAN LOVE STORY
MOKO JUMBIE
Street Date: February 12, 2019
DVD SRP: $24.95
An Official Selection at the LA Film, Edinburgh International and Curacao International Festivals, Vashti Anderson’s Feature Film Debut Includes
Audio Commentary from the Director and Cinematographer
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
A gothic punk Caribbean love story arises in the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad in MOKO JUMBIE, the feature film debut of filmmaker Vashti Anderson.
Set in 1990 against the backdrop of the country’s failed coup attempt, Young Asha (Vanna Girod) has just returned from her home in England to her native island seeking her roots. What should be a brief visit turns into much more as she’s drawn to Roger (Jeremy Thomas), an idealistic, pan-platying, crab-catching Afro-Caribbean fisherman across the road. The taboo attraction between the two teenagers grows despite family disapproval, political turmoil, a clash between cultures, and mysterious hauntings by ancestral spirits.
An Official Selection at the 2017 LA Film Festival where it was also nominated for the World Fiction Award, as well as the Edinburgh and Curacao International Film Festivals, MOKO JUMBIE is an intense blurring of reality, fantasy, superstition, and truth. Christopher Llewellyn Reed of Hammer to Nail says that first-time Director Anderson”elegantly sidesteps the ordinary, imbuing her heartfelt island love letter with visual wonder, lyrical depth, and an invigorating sense of the fantastic” and that she “weaves a tangled web of cinematic intrigue that is gripping and satisfying in equal measure.”
Along with its DVD and Digital debut, MOKO JUMBIE will also be available on IndiePix Unlimited, the streaming subscription service of IndiePix Films. For $5.99 per month at either Amazon Channels or IndiePixUnlimited.com, passionate cinephiles get 24/7 access to a highly-curated catalog of cinematic gems from both international auteurs and visionary new voices alike, joins other contemporary classics of world cinema including 2009 Cannes Camera D’Or winner, SAMSON & DELILAH, Iranian artist Shirin Neshat’s feature-length debut, the Golden Lion-nominated WOMEN WITHOUT MEN and Noaz Deshe’s powerful WHITE SHADOW.
