Icons, Innovation and Industry at 2014 CaribbeanTales Film Festival The 2014 CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (CTFF) was indeed a landmark occasion as this year the festival broke boundaries in gaining additional recognition for the creativity and culture of the Caribbean. The festival which ran alongside the Toronto International Film Festival highlighted the region’s icons as […]
Kingston Paradise wins ‘African Oscar’ The Jamaican film Kingston Paradise has won the Award for Best Diaspora Feature Film at the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). The AMAA, which were presented last Saturday night at a gala in the Nigerian city of Bayelsa, are seen as the African equivalent of the Oscars. Kingston Paradise, a […]
UK Film Hard Time Bus Gets New York Debut Award-winning UK feature film, Hard Time Bus is an Official Selection for this year’s prestigious American Black Film Festival (ABFF) and will be screened at the SVA theatre in New York on 21st June 2014. The festival is set to open with the star-studded premiere of […]
Shot entirely on location in downtown Kingston, the production breaks new ground as Jamaica’s first noir thriller. While the film continues in the successful tradition of Jamaican urban dramas such as The Harder They Come, Dancehall Queen and Third World Cop, Kingston Paradise employs a unique visual style along with unexpected plot elements. A hustler’s […]
Hollywood Black Film Festival winner ‘Hard Time Bus’ set to premiere debut feature in hometown, Birmingham. Birmingham-based film production ‘Hard Time Bus’, having already won accolades in Hollywood, will receive its UK debut in Birmingham. ‘Hard Time Bus’, a multi-layered relationship drama that centres on the misadventures of a commitment-phobic everyman, won ‘Best Feature’ at […]