Jamaica Film.Com | Archive

“Better Mus’ Come” Heads To Los Angeles – The 2012 Pan African Film Festival

9. February 2012

The Jamaican feature film “Better Mus’ Come” has been on a very healthy run, winning multiple film festival awards in 2011, and enjoying a successful Canadian premiere recently with SOLD OUT screenings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox (home of the Toronto International Film Festival) as part of TIFF Cinematheque. The screenings were in association with [...]

Look Out For ‘Blind Shotta’ Movie

19. January 2012

0 Comments

A new low-budget Jamaican movie – Blind Shotta – was filmed (largely in the Grants Pen community of Kingston) last year, and is expected to be released later this year. 28 year old Rayon Walker is the star of the movie, playing the role of ‘Father Blinds’, a visually impaired area leader who runs a [...]

Toronto Screening Of Better Mus Come

18. January 2012

0 Comments

On Saturday, February 4, the Caribbean Youth Film Festival in partnership with TIFF presents Better Mus Come. Details in the flyer below.

White Witch of Rose Hall – Annie Palmer – Movie Coming Soon

15. January 2012

0 Comments

According to a report in today’s Sunday Observer newspaper ,film and television producer, Mark Kenny, has plans to take the story of Annie Palmer – the infamous White Witch of Rose Hall – and make it into a movie. According to Kenny, “I was looking for projects to develop into feature films and this was [...]

Bob Marley: The Making Of A Legend

25. December 2011

0 Comments

Through intimate scenes shot on a Sony video camera in 1970s Jamaica, filmmaker (and Bob’s then girlfriend) Esther Anderson artfully constructed the union between Reggae and Rasta that launched the international career and renowned image of Bob Marley & The Wailers. Revisiting that formative time, she reveals to what degree her original vision set in [...]

Coming Soon – Red Amber Green Film

2. October 2011

0 Comments

In The Dance co-host, 22 year old Christopher Byfield, is getting set to release his film called Red Amber Green. The movie tells the story of three Jamaican teenage boys (played by Byfield himself, Adrian Wright and Damarah Danni) struggling to make ends meet on the difficult streets of Kingston, Jamaica. They make a living [...]

New Jamaican Documentary Coming Soon – MAN FREE

29. September 2011

0 Comments

Lifesize Entertainment presents a new Jamaican documentary called “MAN FREE”, which will be available on DVD and via iTunes soon. Directed by Kinsey Beck, and produced by David Garonzik, MAN FREE takes a look into the lives of everyday people in the beautiful country of Jamaica. Told through the people themselves, the film takes a [...]

The Story of Lover’s Rock

27. September 2011

0 Comments

The Story of Lover’s Rock is a feature length documentary that tells the story of an era and a music genre that defined a generation (particularly in Britain) in the late 70s and 80s. The film combines live performances with some of the Kings and Queens of Lovers Rock with comedy sketches, interviews and archive [...]

Another Bob Marley Documentary Set For Release Soon

1. September 2011

0 Comments

30 years after the death of reggae icon, Bob Marley, Scottish Oscar-winning director, Kevin Macdonald, is set to take fans through an appreciation of the work and the man that was reggae legend Bob Marley. Macdonald’s documentary, simply titled ‘Marley‘, documentary, is set to be released this month. It was shot here in Jamaica, in [...]

Jamaican Film “Out The Gate” Opens On October 19, 2011

29. August 2011

0 Comments

After thrilling audiences in Los Angeles, New York City and Atlanta, the urban action feature film “Out The Gate” starring Jamaican favorites Paul Campbell and Oliver Samuels is set to open island-wide in Jamaica October 19th, 2011. A red carpet premiere, launch party, after party, and other promotional events are being planned for the movie [...]

Archive | Coming Soon RSS feed for this section