Che Applewhaite

Trinidad and Tobago

Che Applewhaite is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and organizer. He facilitates critical engagement with ongoing histories by remaking the specific forms that displace us. His student short film, A New England Document (Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020), screened at international film festivals and conferences in the USA, UK and Germany, and won the Best Emerging Artist jury award at Mimesis Documentary Festival at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has written for outlets including Harvard Magazine, Open City Documentary Festival, and Millennium Film Journal, and was a 2021 Seminar Fellow of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. He is from London and Trinidad & Tobago, and received a B.A. (Hons) from Harvard University.