NiaFlix: Shorts

NiaFlix: A Night at the Centre is a monthly movie night series that centers movies, films and black storytellers that showcase Black Artistic Expression. Featuring carefully curated films by filmmaker Kourtney Jackson, each night will transport you through stories that blend nostalgia, art, and culture, giving you that cozy Netflix vibe right at Nia Centre!

On Thursday February 20th, 2025, we will be screening a selection of short films!

Created by filmmakers with roots in Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, and Martinique, the works in this program explore sentimentalities attached to Caribbean identity, memory, immigration, and diasporic longing. Through experimentation with form and aesthetics, these films offer meditations on cultural celebration, post-colonial geographies, and feelings of distance and belonging as a First-Generation individual.

Snacks and light refreshments will be made available.

Featured Films

(1) “A melodious cacophony of joy and rebellion,” dir. Roya DelSol
(2) “Memoirs to Little Jamaica,” dir. Chelsea Nyomi
(3) “Delroy Kincaid,” dir. Powys Dewhurst
(4) “Homesick,” dir. Natalie Wood
(5) “Dèyè Do Don Dié (Behind God’s Back),” Roy Jox-Fredstie
(6) “Fly, Fly Sadness,” dir. Miryam Charles
(7) “Burnt Milk,” dir. Joseph Douglas Elmhirst

TOTAL RUNTIME: 57 mins

About the Series Curator

Kourtney Jackson

Kourtney Jackson is a Toronto-based filmmaker and lens-based artist. Her artistic practice employs hybridized and experimental forms of storytelling that permeate interiorities of Black queer womanhood.

In lieu of “representation” as a means for legibility, her work endeavours toward a repatriation of the self through somatic, spiritual, and ecological sensibilities. Her award-winning films have screened locally and internationally at festivals including TIFF Next Wave (Toronto), BlackStar Film Festival (Philadelphia), Sundance Film Festival, Ignite x Adobe (Utah), and the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (Montréal).