The Jamaica Film Academy announces the Call for Entries in the 2012 Jamaica Reggae Film Festival, to be held from 17th-21st April in Kingston.
keeping with the format of the inaugural event in February 2008, the Festival will showcase films in which aspects of Jamaica's Reggae music culture are displayed, and documented in documentary, short films, animation and music videos. In the five years of this event, the Reggae Film Festival has included films made by Jamaicans, as well as global reggae researchers and fans from the Caribbean, UK, USA, Canada, Spain, Germany, Serbia, Italy, Japan, Iran, France and Ethiopia. The porpuse of these documentaries on the history of Jamaican music and music makers, is to archive historical material on the genre that will preserve the oral memories of a culture that has spread to and been honored by the world.
In 2012, in recognition of the 50th year of Jamaica's independence, the Jamaica Reggae Film Festival will be presented internationally in cities around the world, with selected screenings of The Best of the Reggae Film Festival in Toronto, London, Birmingham and New York.
The objective of the Jamaica Film Academy is to increase and improve the output of Jamaican film making, This festival has inspired and produced new Jamaican film making and discovered a surprising wealth of Jamaican talent in digital animation. The knowledge and innovation of Jamaican music video makers exposing the talents of Jamaica's powerful musical artists, provides another area highlighted by the Reggae Film Festival.
The Annual Awards are presented in several categories and the international interest in the unique music and culture of Jamaica. The Festival's identification of the genre of 'reggae films' creates a digital archive of films available for research into a variety of aspects of the Jamaican culture that emerged from the Rastafari movement and spread with the music of reggae legend Bob Marley.
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