(HER)STORY
75 SHOTS Pocket Cinema was founded in 2016 by film poet, Karin Hazé, sparked by a life-changing experience at an underground Pride event in Jamaica. Moved by the courage she witnessed, Karin began mentoring queer artists living under oppressive regimes, offering tools, guidance, and solidarity, to help them tell their stories on their own terms. What began with mobile phones and encrypted exchanges online, has grown into a global collective of queer BIPOC filmmakers across the Caribbean, Africa, South Asia, and beyond. Created in secrecy and forged in defiance, their films speak of love, joy, resistance, and the reimagining of freedom.
VISION
We are the invisible majority: queer, racialised, migrant, displaced, not marginal, but erased by capitalist gatekeepers and Western frameworks.
We believe in cinema as a force for transformation: a collective, intuitive, and poetic tool to resist, reveal, and reimagine the world.
MISSION
We cherish the unconventional, in spirit, story, and vision. We amplify voices that stretch the boundaries of cinema and stir collective consciousness.
Rooted in solidarity, we reach across borders, building a cinema that moves with the people.
MANDATE
We support, produce, and showcase radical queer cinema. We are committed to training and equipping under-represented artists, especially those working under censorship, criminalisation, or displacement, with the tools to tell their stories on their own terms. We work through shared leadership and mutual care, defending Poor Cinema as a vital form of cultural resistance and creative self-determination.
GET UP, STAND UP
We stand in active opposition to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and colonialism in all aspects of our work,from hiring to distribution. We honour the autonomy of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour. We create together, guided by intuition, reciprocity, and a fierce belief in cinema’s power to reclaim space and reshape the narrative.