COUNTRY: Colombia (Old Providence, the Colombian coastline)

After sibling rivals Corn and Rita’s latest row results in them accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father’s truck, they must find a way to repair the truck in time to pick up the tourists who will be staying at their family’s hotel.

As they struggle to find the means necessary to conceal the accident, the siblings interact with host of colorful locals, including a butcher, Rastafari drum makers, a pawn shop and even a witch doctor, on their journey of reconciliation around the island.

With a story inspired by his good friend’s Jamaican mother, who had a similar collision with a cow, director Samir Oliveros, moved his new version of this tale to his native Colombia, where he intentionally showcases Old Providence’s Caribbean lifestyle through the landscape, its people, and naturalistic dialogue.  Oliveros, chose to do “Bad Lucky Goat” as a comedy because of what he sees as an overexposure of tragedy in Latin American cinema.  As he stated in a 2017 Sydney Latino Film Festival interview, “It’s always the same typical, traditional film about the lower class and how they suffer and how it’s super dramatic. I believe we have to break those preconceptions…” And “Bad Lucky Goat” indeed breaks all expected notions imbuing Caribbean and Latin American cinema.

Heralded as “A genuine crowd pleaser,” and “One of the best debuts of the year,” by Indiewire’s Eric Kohn, “Bad Lucky Goat” has been on an international film festival run and has finally found its way to Brooklyn through the Caribbean Film Series.

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SUGAR directed by Michelle Serieux
Jamaica | 2017 | 19 min

A young Jamaican woman working at a wealthy tourist resort faces a crisis of conscience when a couple seems to be the answer to her financial predicament.