Kaleb D’Aguilar is an award-winning writer/director who resides between London and his homeland Jamaica. He is a Commonwealth Shorts: Caribbean Voices (2021) recipient who holds an MA in Directing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BSc. in Anthropology from the University of the West Indies.
Working across disciplines, Kaleb is interested in highlighting ‘the everyday’, and often explores reoccurring themes of familial bonds, migration, gender and sexuality. He is particular interested in how these themes manifest in and create nuanced, intersectional identities within the Black and Caribbean lived experience.
His latest short, No Entry, explores how a mother attempts to preserve the relationship with her son and the safety in her home, whilst facing the effects of the Windrush Scandal and the British Government’s Hostile Environment Policy. After screening at over 15 film festivals and winning several awards, No Entry is now available on Soleil Space and American Airlines in-flight entertainment.
Kaleb is currently developing his first feature, The Fisherboy, which was a selected script for the 2021/2022 Feature Film Lab by the Jamaica Film & Television Association and British Council. He is also serving as an adjunct lecturer in the film department at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.