| Kareem Mortimer | |
| Occupation: | Film director, screenwriter |
Kareem Mortimer (born October 17, 1980, in Nassau, Bahamas) is a Bahamian filmmaker who is known for such films as Chance (2005), The Eleutheran Adventure (2006),[1] Float (2007), I Am Not A Dummy (2009), Children of God[2] (2010), Wind Jammers (2010)[3] and Passage (2013).
His debut feature, Children of God (2010), is the first narrative feature from the Caribbean with LGBT themes.[4] Another project, Wind Jammers (2010), which he co-directed with Richard von Maur, is a children's film that deals with racism. Children of God was shown on the television channel Showtime as well as distributed in over twenty-four countries around the world. In 2014, Passage was awarded an African Movie Academy Award for Best Short Film from the Diaspora.