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MAKE A FILM IN 24 HOURS
The 2012 Festival will once again feature the Make A Film In 24 Hours competition sponsored by RBC Royal Bank - Jamaica, that in 2011 saw 15 film crews competing to shoot a 5-minute film on a selected theme in just 24 hours for cash prizes and awards.
The competition has inspired and produced a wealth of new Jamaican film making talent. At the same time the Festival has discovered a surprising wealth of Jamaican talent in digital animation, while the acknowledged expertise 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.
With an inaugural event in February 2008, the Reggae Film Festival showcases films in which Jamaica's Reggae music culture is displayed, documented and memorialized in features, documentaries and short films, animation and music videos. In five years the Reggae Film Festival has showcased more than 200 films made by Jamaicans, global reggae researchers and fans from the Caribbean, UK, USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Africa. The focus of many documentaries on the history of Jamaican music and music makers, has given the Jamaica Film Academy an archive of historical material on the genre genre that preserves on film the oral memories of a culture that that emerged from the Rastafari movement and spread to and been honored by the world.
INTERNATIONAL TOUR
The Reggae Film Festival goes on International tour in 2012 to Canada (May), England (May, August) and Serbia (August) with a programme of THE BEST OF THE REGGAE FILM FESTIVAL.
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JAMAICA 50
The 2012 Festival will honour Jamaica's 50 years of Independence with screenings of important films of the past 5 decades, including 'THE HARDER THEY COME' and 'LIFE AND DEBT". The 2012 festival will also honour Jamaican cinematographer Christopher Browne, whose extensive film work includes the recent feature film "GHETTA LIFE".
Annual Awards are presented in several categories and and the international interest in the unique music and culture of Jamaica has given prize-winning films further international awards and distribution.
RFF2012 CALL FOR ENTRIES HAS NOW CLOSED
