KINGSTON, Jamaica — Appearing at the recent Caribbean Studies Association’s 50th annual conference on Caribbean Vibes and Vibrations (Culture, Identity and Development in Transformative Times), the multifaceted filmmaker Tshay Meade presented, frame by frame, an ideal reel of what’s appealingly required to produce animated films.

A New Yorker of Jamaican parents, Nigel and Marcia Williams, the event also marked the presentation of her latest project, Tell Me When You Get Home – an animated film that follows 15-year-old Honest Cardamom as she encounters the spirit of her late mother at a family party.

The film is a tender, visually rich meditation on love, family, memory, and the afterlife.