While France has its famous Cannes Film Festival Jamaica has an excellent Film Festival. In few days the 3rd edition of Reggae Film Festival will take place at Studio 38 in New Kingston, Jamaica, from May 23rd-28th, 2011.
Don’t miss out this event packed with premieres, seminars, competitions, new digital media work, live music performances and a star-studded gala events.
Jamaica Reggae Film Festival is a brilliant showcase of international films incorporating aspects of Jamaica’s music, culture and film-making talent.
Organized by the JAMAICA FILM ACADEMY with screenings in Jamaica‘s capital city of Kingston, the event will last over 5 days and the movies featured in this festivals are really cool!
Check the list of some of the best ever flicks at this year edition scrolling down.
Let’s take a look at some of the movies in this festival, because they will become new classics!
HOLDING ON TO JAH
Holding On To Jah The Genesis Of A Revolution
“Holding On To Jah” is a unique film about the history and culture ofroots Reggae music and the Rastafarian movement in Jamaica, as told by world renowned Reggae musicians and historians.
“Holding On To Jah” details the history ofJamaica, Reggae music, and the Rasta movement, bringing into focus the critical roles played by Marcus Garvey, and the225th Emperor of Ethiopia, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie.
BOB MARLEY: THE MAKING OF A LEGEND
Based on footage shot in the early seventies and lost for more than thirty years, Esther Anderson’s film takes us on a journey to the Caribbean islands, to Jamaica and into 56 Hope Road, Kingston, to see and hear the young Bob Marley before he was famous.
FIRE IN BABYLON
Fire In Babylon Trailer
Fire In Babylon is the breathtaking story of how the West Indies triumphed over its colonial masters through the achievements of one of the most gifted teams in sporting history.
ROCKSTEADY (The Movie)
Rocksteady
Set to a Reggae soundtrack and featuring acting and musical performances by Grammy award-winner, Steel Pulse, ROCKSTEADY follows a young man’s journey over the course of a racing season, but more importantly of self-discovery and growth.
A coming of age drama set in the world of stock car dirt track racing, against a heavy reggae soundscape.
REGGAE BRITANNIA
Reggae Britannia Trailer
Reggae Britannia explores and celebrates the impact of Reggae on British music and culture from the Sixties through to the mid-Eighties. Showing how it came from Jamaica in the 1960s to influence, over the next 20 years, both British music and society.
Directed by Jeremy Marre, this 90-minute documentary is the latest in the critically acclaimed BBC Four Britannia music strand that has previously covered jazz, folk, soul, pop, synth, prog, heavy metal, blues and festivals
SUPERSTONIC SOUND
Superstonic Sound Trailer
The Rebel Dread, a documentary, a journey from Dub and Reggae to the legendary very first Punk club ‘The Roxy’ in the mid-seventies, crossing Hip Hop towards Dubstep; a musical, cultural and personal travel between past and present.
A Documentary film on Don Letts and his family legacy. From Dub to Punk; a journey with the legendary DJ who witnessed Britain´s Culture Clash, this is a well rounded documentary about the musical/cultural history of bass in Britain.
THE SKIN
THE SKIN TRAILER
A Super Natural thriller, The Skin
is a modern story set in Antigua & Barbuda filled with Caribbean Mythology & folklore about Michael and Lisa (Brent Simon & Aisha Ralph) who are a young married couple on the verge of losing their home.
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