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1978 by a special unit
of the Jamaica Defense
Force under a People’s
National Party, in which
five supporters of the Jamaica Labour Party were
shot dead after they had
been ambushed at Green
Bay. That dramatic event
helped me to anchor my
story. I pieced together
snippets of information
and loosely reconstructed the lives of the people
who ended up at Green
Bay. The Green Bay Massacre became the endpoint of my story, which
I then built backwards.
make the step towards
short films and eventually feature films. So
Michelle and I decided
to join forces to create
opportunities for these
young filmmakers to
produce work that could
put them on the map.
The idea was to write
stories that could be shot
in one single day, so that
it could actually be done.
There was no money to
spend; it had to be as
cheap as possible. So
New Caribbean Cinema
became a mix of a feeling
of getting work done and
a method of how to get it
done – a ‘by any means
In 2010 you co-founded necessary’ approach to
New Caribbean Cinema, filmmaking.
a movement to foster
filmmaking in Jamaica. The first release you put
Why did you decide to out under the banner of
launch this initiative?
New Caribbean Cinema was Ring di Alarm
I founded New Carib(2013), a series of short
bean Cinema along with films. What were these
Michelle Serieux, a St.