film

The First Plantation

Perspective Fund

Threshold

Producer

Darcy McKinnon

Producer

Romola Lucas

Director

Jason Fitzroy Jeffers

 

Development support

Production support

 

The First Plantation is a deeply personal and spiritual investigation into the vast legacy of Barbados, one of the most visited tourist destinations in the Caribbean and the historical birthplace of the plantation-based economy, which helped pave the way for white supremacy and systemic racism across the American south.