If you’re looking for something different to do in Kingston this weekend check out the French Film Festival which is now on in Jamaica! Presented by the Alliance Francais de la Jamaique, the French Film Festival features a selection of Francophone films. This year the festival features films from Canada, France,

Black Friday documentary trailer. Bad Friday focuses on a community of Rastafarians in western Jamaica who annually commemorate the 1963 incident, a moment just after the island’s independence, when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and tortured hundreds of Rastafarians. Read more at jamlink.com  

ARC Magazine announces a partnership with the Youth-IN Visions project which will culminate in the production of 30 webisodes highlighting the lives and stories of exceptional youth who are changing the course of their region. re you motivated to tell your story and do you want to engage in a

For those of you who still haven’t seen the award winning Jamaican movie, “Better Mus Come” yet, the film has been on a very healthy run winning multiple film festival awards in 2011. The film enjoyed a successful Canadian premiere recently with SOLD OUT screenings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox,

Here’s a trailer for another Jamaican movie, Man Free by Kinsey Beck, that I’ve recently come across… For more info MAN FREE Great to see so many movies coming out recently on Jamaica…

  The Best of the Jamaica Reggae Film Festival 2011 is happening on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 7:00 p.m. at Redbones.  The night will feature Jamaican documentaries, animation, music videos as well as new Jamaican short films.

Below taken from the Hollywood Reporter. Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s biography of reggae king Bob Marley brings him to life. Stirring up an exhaustive portrait of the legend behind the music, Kevin Macdonald’s Marley is sure to become the definitive documentary on the much beloved king of reggae. Filled with thrilling

This Saturday, Redbones presents it’s “foreign film” night. This week’s film is the latest film from the Spanish master film-maker, Pedro Almodovar, who tells the story of a brilliant plastic surgeon who has developed his craft to the point of obsession as he attempts to create the perfect skin. His

Here’s a movie that’s generating a big buzz in the underground cinema world…Thanks Marcel for the tip off! “The First Rasta tells the life of Rastafarianism’s founder, Leonard Percival Howell, from precocious anti-colonialist (he witnesses a murder as a child and refuses to collaborate with Jamaica’s justice system) to world

About OnePeople  OnePeople is an exciting new documentary project being produced by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald, Justine Henzell, and Zachary Harding. Scheduled to premiere August 6th, 2012 in Miami, Toronto, New York, London and Kingston, OnePeople is a collaborative documentary that invites people worldwide to contribute footage to celebrate