Today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper carries a feature on New Caribbean Cinema, a group of young filmmakers representing the various facets of Jamaican/Caribbean society. They’ve been on our radar for quite some time, what with the Flashpoint Film Festival a few years back still fresh in our minds, and today New Caribbean Cinema (NCC) have stepped [...]
Continue reading...22. March 2011
The Keith Jackson-produced film, Whatever It Takes, features a talented young actress, model and singer, with Jamaican roots. Her name is Tina Jetter, and this feisty teen plays the ‘beloved child’ in Jackson’s film. Jetter, who was born in the USA to Jamaican parents, has been acting since she was four years old, and has [...]
Continue reading...16. January 2011
Today’s Sunday Observer, has a profile/feature on Dr. Esther Figueroa, a 53-year-old lady who holds a PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University, and who has been an independent film-maker for more than two decades. In 26 years, she has worked on a wide range of media products, including commercials, television specials, television series, narrative feature [...]
Continue reading...26. November 2010
Fans can look out for Better Mus’ Come actor, Jerome ‘Sage’ Butler, in Ras Tingle’s upcoming feature length film, Parish Bull. “It’s a film about the tenderness of the Jamaican lover man. My role is that of the A/C technician. They see me as the righteous bredrin,” Sage said of the film which has an [...]
Continue reading...22. October 2010
Today’s Jamaica Observer newspaper has a feature on Carlo Less, associate producer of the award-winning feature-length documentary, RiseUp. RiseUp follows the lives of three aspiring artistes struggling to pursue their dreams in Jamaica’s competitive underground music scene; a new world to which the film’s director, Argentina-born Luciano Blotta was introduced to by Less .. more [...]
Continue reading...19. September 2010
Today’s Sunday Gleaner has a double feature on young Jamaican film director, Storm Saulter, and the marketing of his soon-to-be-released movie, “Better Mus Come”. Through a crowd (the movie’s crew) armed with placards, dressed up in Better Mus’ Come T-shirts, and protesting during the recent Fashion Night Out (FNO) extravaganza, the “Better Mus Come” crew [...]
Continue reading...29. August 2010
CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution is the first ever film distribution company of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean, will take 25 top Caribbean producers and film-makers to Toronto this fall, to participate in a unique market development programme and participate in the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Launched in Barbados in May of this year, CaribbeanTales [...]
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25. September 2011
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