Film Location Jamaica is an upcoming documentary series mapping the history of Jamaica as a film location for both overseas and homegrown filmmakers. Caribbean Creativity serves as the producer of this documentary, which is planned to be completed by the...
Studio Drummie One and the History of Rock Steady Music is a feature-length documentary on the development of rocksteady, the predecessor of reggae, in Jamaica in the 1960s, with a specific focus on the role of the famous Studio...
Welcome to the Smiling Coast is a feature-length documentary that offers a rare insight into the daily lives of fifteen youngsters who are struggling to make ends meet in the margins of the Gambian tourism industry. Although the smallest country...
Onbekend Onbemind (Unknown Unloved, 2015) is a 40-minute documentary on the Surinamese LGBT community in both Suriname and the Netherlands. Homosexuality and other alternative forms of sexuality are still often considered taboo in the (Dutch) Surinamese community. In an attempt...
Art Connect (2014) is a feature-length documentary that reveals the powerful process of creative intervention in the Success Laventille Secondary School in Trinidad and Tobago. Levantille is one of the most crime-laden and violent communities in Trinidad and Tobago....
Yurumein (Homeland, 2014) presents the untold story of Carib/Garifuna resistance against slavery that deserves its place in the annals of the African Diaspora. The film recounts the painful past of the Caribs on St Vincent and the extermination of...
Miquel Galofré’s Hit Me With Music is a documentary about Jamaica’s dancehall scene and especially of one of its biggest names, Yellowman. The documentary is jam-packed with interviews from dancers and street kids to the scene’s biggest stars. Including...
The feature-length documentary RasTa: A Soul’s Journey presents the story of one young woman, Donisha Prendergast, and her journey to explore Rastafari, the spiritual legacy of her grandparents, Rita and Bob Marley. Born in 1984, three years after her...
Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens (2011) is a 63-minute documentary that focuses on a community of Rastafarians in western Jamaica who annually commemorate the 1963 Coral Gardens incident, a moment just after the island’s independence, when the Jamaican...
Holding on to Jah (2011) is a unique documentary about the history and culture of roots Reggae music and the Rastafarian movement in Jamaica, as told by world renowned Reggae musicians and historians. The film, a collaborative effort by...