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These short films derive primarily from the filmed interviews and observations that Vernita Pearl Fort carried out with 120 members of Jamaica's music and human rights communities. To a lesser extent, they derive from the telling of Vernita Pearl Fort's personal story and suggest the impetus behind the research, writing, filming, and action initiatives comprising the cornerstones of the Music and Human Rights Project.

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2014​         The Neuroscience of Music and Morality, animated shorts that interpret high                           impact, peer-reviewed journal articles on the findings of neuroscientific,                                   psychological, and neuroepigenetic research on music and morality.  

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2011         SOUND rEVOLUTIONS, 5-minute film on the power of music through                                     Jamaica's diverse music community showing, telling and playing what is a global                   story.

 

2011         ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​PEARL, 5-minute autoethnographic dance film treating the political economy of                       the United States and the globe as lived through Pearl's life.  From Chicago's                         south side and from Watts, she grew up to become a scientist, an economist, a                       diplomat and an artist.

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2011         A Principal on Music, 6-minute short following the Principal of the Edna Manley                       College of the Visual and Performing Arts as he walks us through the only                               regional institution of its kind in the Caribbean, and its potential for creating                             transformative change.

 

2011         25  Umbrellas, co-produced with Colleen Cook, 5-minute film memoir on the                           power of creatively addressing challenges, even those of denigration, through

                 honoring the humanity of all people, including those who have not yet learned do                   do so.

 

2010         Children Moved by Music, Move Society, 10-minute film on the launch of the                           Jamaican Youth Orchestra modeled after Venezuela's world-renowned youth                           orchestra, El Sistema, that fights poverty and crime with music.

 

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