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Jonathan Ali

Programmer / curator / writer
London

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Jonathan Ali is a London-based film curator, programmer, and writer. Since 2016 he has been director of programming for Miami’s Third Horizon Film Festival, a space for radical Caribbean and diaspora cinema. He is, or has previously, also been a programmer or curated film programmes for various festivals, film institutes and other exhibition initiatives in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Europe, the UK and the US, mostly centred around Caribbean cinema. He has curated retrospectives dedicated to John Akomfrah and Black Audio Film Collective, Sarah Maldoror, and pioneering Afro-Cuban documentarian Nicolas Guillén Landrián, among others. Most recently, for Third Horizon’s 2025 edition, he curated the retrospective You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978-1985.

www.thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com

What is a recent program of yours that best represents you and your interests? This year's Third Horizon Film Festival lineup, with a particular focus on the retrospective You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978-1985.

Recommend other film programmers whose work is creating pathways for south-south collaboration.
Janaína Oliviera (@jana_oliveira)
Wally Fall
Claire Diao (@clairediao)

Do you use the term Global South in your work?
Yes