THE JOUR­NEY OF CAPE VERDE
(In Search of Iden­ti­ty)

SYN­OP­SIS

What is Cape Verdean­i­ty? Who am I as Cape Verdean?

A young Cape Verdean lad from the is­land of Fo­go is forced to face his past, pre­sent and fu­ture in search of his true iden­ti­ty – Cape Verdean­i­ty.

The Jour­ney of Cape Verde deals with the cen­tral theme of Cape Verdean­i­ty as it re­lates to eth­nic­i­ty, race, cul­ture, his­to­ry and oth­er so­cial ques­tions fac­ing the Cape Verdean peo­ple.

Al­leged­ly, dis­cov­ered by Por­tu­gal in 1460, Cape Verde be­came the first slav­ery port of West Africa in ear­ly 1700’s where slaves were sold to the crown of Span­ish, French and lat­er to the En­glish for their colonies in the New World: Amer­i­c­as and the Caribbean.

The Jour­ney of Cape Verde is a fea­ture doc­u­men­tary film shot over a pe­ri­od of four years. The film de­vel­ops through a se­ries of jour­neys through the is­lands of Cape Verde and her im­mi­grant com­mu­ni­ties of USA, Por­tu­gal, France, is­land of Madeira, S. Tome and An­go­la.

“I know how I got here, but I would like to know and un­der­stand where I’m go­ing.”
“Which route am I to fol­low to reach my des­tiny?”
“Be­ing Cape Verdean, our iden­ti­ty is con­stant­ly chal­lenged”

Play Time: 83 min­utes Lan­guage: En­glish, French, Por­tuguese, and Cre­ole with En­glish sub­ti­tles and Por­tuguese sub­ti­tles.