MADE IN JAMAICA

Year: 2006
UK: Network Releasing
Cast: Capleton, Elephant Man, Bunny Wailer, Toots & the Maytals, Bounty Killer, Gregory Isaacs, Tanya Stephens, Beres Hammond, Third World, Lady Saw, Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, Joseph Current, Vybz Kartel, Shiah Coore, Koolant, Alaine, Doc Marshall, Brick & Lace, Blessed, Bogle
Director: JerOme Laperrousaz
Countries: France / USA
UK: 109 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and sex references
UK Release Date: 23 October 2009 (Limited Release - London, ICA)


Synopsis

A music documentary that doesn't attempt to chart the entire history of Jamaican reggae and dancehall culture, but instead deals with what it means to the performers, the audience and to Jamaican society as a whole.

Shooting on Kingston streets and Jamaican beaches, using interviews with the stars - from Gregory Isaacs to Lady Saw, Bunny Wailer to Elephant Man, Capleton to Bounty Killer - and featuring some astonishing live performances, this valuable document is a riot of sights, sounds, sensations and provocative social commentary.