The Jamaican Reggae Film Festival will showcase some of their best film festival entries later next week at ‘The Drum’ in Birmingham for a very special ‘Best of’ program. One of the highlights of the event will be the much anticipated Bob Marley documentary ‘Making of a Legend‘ by film maker Gian Godoy and Bob’s Ex-Girlfriend Esther Anderson.Most of us... 

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Tomorrow night the BBC will air a new 3 part documentary series (BBC2 9pm 16th March, 2012), part one is about a Jamaican Baptist Pastor who travels back to the UK to the home town of his hero. Jamaican Baptist Pastor Franklin Small is on his way to King’s Stanley, a village in the Cotswolds. It is home to the oldest baptist church in Gloucestershire, which is now threatened with closure. It... 

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 – Article from Jamaican Observer Selections from last year’s award winners were shown including Mustapha Khan’s Rocksteady, starring Grammy award winner, David ‘Steel Pulse’ Hinds. Rocksteady won Best International Feature Film in 2011. It featured BC Cook (Cedric Sanders), the son of Jamaican immigrants, who was left to support his mother in... 

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The long awaited documentary by Kevin MacDonald titled “Marley” is to get it’s European premiere in Berlin tomorrow night, all online tickets have now sold out. Director Kevin Macdonald, Rohan Marley and Neville Garrick, will be in Berlin tomorrow night to present the film.Kevin Macdonald’s Bob Marley documentary is set for a North American and UK theatrical release on April... 

Friday, February 03, 2012 – Jamaican Observer HAVING raised US$350,000 via a private placement with Pan Caribbean Financial Services to fund its expansion and launch of iVutv.com online TV, eMedia Interactive has announced a stellar six-member board to guide its 25-year-old President and CEO Tyrone Wilson. A three-and-half-year-old new media company that was able to secure such investment, without... 

By Kevin Jackson Observer Writer Sunday, December 04, 2011 Home Again, a Canadian indie film by writer/director David ‘Sudz’ Sutherland is to be shot in Jamaica next February. The dramatic feature film details the stories of three adults raised as outsiders from their childhood and are deported from Canada, the US and England to Jamaica, the land of their birth.SUTHERLAND… want... 

Philadelphia/Amsterdam, January 23, 2012 – Oxumgirl Productions proudly presents the official DVD release and European premiere of BAD FRIDAY: RASTAFARI AFTER CORAL GARDENS, a compelling documentary that chronicles the history of violence against Rastafarians in Jamaica. Produced and directed by John Jackson, Jr. and Deborah Thomas, along with Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn and Junior “Ista J”... 

ReggaeNews 24/7: BOB MARLEY: THE MAKING OF A LEGEND – IN PROCESS OF…: “Soon to be linked up with an official website” Esther comments.. Yes you it here.. Esther & Gian want to create an official website for the film BOB MARLEY: THE MAKING OF A LEGEND… They have asked me if I want like to create and design the website I said “Yes” I thought it would...