Just a quick update to let you all know how things are going here in Jamaica, very sorry that we've not been able to update the website since the festival began as we've had some technical problems which stops us from updating the main site but we hope to have this fixed soon. You can catch up on whats been happening via Hype TV and local radio.
The festival begain on the 20th Feb. at Emancipation Park, Kingston. It was a huge success with an excellent turn out of people, so thankyou to everyone who came along, in particular to L.A Lewis and Barbara Blake Hannah who hosted the event plus to everyone else who helped make all this possible, we apreciate your support.
Jungle George, LA Lewis + Barbara Blake Hannah
The festival opened at Emancipation Park, with the documentary titled 'The Legacy' by Jep Jorba who is a film maker from Spain. We where lucky enough to have Jep attend the festival and he also spoke about his film, you should be able to catch this on Hype TV.
Also shown was 'Almost Heaven' by Ed Herzog, and 'Stepping Razor:Red X' by Wayne Jobson, this was a huge success and the crowd loved it. Carl Bradshaw also made a special appearence and was in 5 of the films that we had shown!!
Barbara, Carl Bradshaw & Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, Minister of Culture.
The 2nd night was at the Courtleigh Auditorium, Kingston and films shown included 'Rootstime' by Silvestre Jacobi from Argentina, 'Surf Rasta' by Rick Elgood, 'Countryman' by Dickie Jobson, 'Summer Sound In Canada' by Kevin Howes and Jerry Brown. Also at the event was Wayne Jobson who, he came along with renound film maker Arthur Gorson to represent there new film 'Roots Of Reggae' which tells the ernest Ranglin Story.
This evenings show which is the last night will include 'Klash' by Bill Parker, and we are very fortunate to have Bill in Jamaica to talk about his film, also tonight is '3rd World Cop', 'Dub Echoes' by Bruno Natal and 'Lyn Tait:Rocksteady' by Generoso Fierro. Also at the event is Jungle George with his film 'Destination Jamaica/Rastafarian Dreams', there will be more info on all these films being added over the next few weeks.
The whole event has been amazing, from just an idea we had late in 2007 to the actual event is truely wonderful. I've been amazed by the amount of support we've had for the festival and we hope to make this a regular event and maybe even take the festival further afield
Some of my favourite films so far have been 'Sumer Sound in Canada' (Kevin Howes+Jerry Brown) and Rick Elgoods 'Surf Rasta'. 'Summer Sounds in Canada' which was shot in the late 70's and has only recently been re-edited and made into a short film. You can catch Jerry's interview on Hype TV in Jamaica.
Rick Elgood's 'Surf Rasta' was a very nice film, and i'm sure this is going to be a huge hit when it's released, it follows some young Rasta surfers in Jamaica and is a beautiful film.
There will be lots of reviews, pictures and videos comming to this website soon, as soon as i get back to the UK i will be updating the website.
Big thanks to all the film makers who have travelled out to be with us for the first Reggae Film Festival, your support is much apreciated, and to all our sponsors who helped make this happen.
Big Thanks To:
Virgin Atlantic
The Altamont Court Hotel (Kingston)
HYPE TV
CVM
Strawberry Hill
Air Jamaica
Courtleigh Hotel (Kingston)
Jamaica Tourist Board
+everyone else who has helped make this event happen.
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I just want to apologize for the last minute re-scheduling of some of the films, we had some issues with the amount of time we had to screen the films, due to this some of the film times had to be changed and we've also not been able to show a few of the films as planned which is a real shame but the show must go on and we will do our best to show all that we can today at the UWI and the Courtleigh Auditorium this evening.
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