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Jamaica’s film industry gets boost from new funds and global collaborations
Black River film festival invited US, European and African producers and directors to explore partnerships with local film-makers
A film festival has brought US, European and African producers and directors to Jamaica to explore collaborations with local film-makers, who are set to benefit from severalmillion US dollars-worth of government investment to boost the domestic industry. Held on a beach in Black River, in Jamaica’s south-western parish of St Elizabeth, the Black River film festival over the weekend gave Jamaican actors and film-makers a rare opportunity to screen their films to experienced movie makers such as the Netflix producer and director Samad Davis, the Atlanta-based executive movie producer Dolapo Erinkitola, and Cédric Pierre-Louis, the programming director of Nollywood TV, ROK and Zacu TV (Canal+). Photograph: VKVISION.TMThe actor Cornelius Grant, who played Bucky Marshall in the Paramount blockbuster film Bob Marley: One Love, said he was witnessing “the beginning of something great”.
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