If you haven’t yet had a chance to see the film, you can now order the DVD which will release in February 2013. Check the info below….
… The film went on to win the Best International Film Award at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, and shared the Jury Award at the Aruba International Film Festival.
In fact, Browne was quite overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response to his film in his homeland. He says that: “the response in Jamaica was overwhelming. Friends would call me from the cinema and hold up their cell phone at the end of the film so I could hear the audience on their feet cheering and clapping.”
Now you too will soon have the chance to see what the cheering was all about, when Ghett’a Life comes out on DVD on Feb. 16, 2013 through Jinga Films Ltd. It’s available now on pre-order on Amazon…
Fortunately, showings have been rescheduled and are set to begin on Saturday. Check the info below via caribBEING….
The 3rd Annual Flatbush Film Festival: West Indian Edition screenings that were postponed due to #Sandy will take place this Saturday, December 1st at Tribeca Cinema, 7-11pm and next Thursday, December 6th at Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 7-11pm. Films include Ring di Alarm!, Stones in the Sun, Pressure, Cabbie Chronicles and Trafik d’Info.
If you missed the other colors that previously dropped, or the UK release, here’s another chance for you to cop. Two more colors are set to drop in stores and online tomorrow.
Check out the info and images below, via SoleCollector…
…With round one of the ‘Battle of New York’ in the books, Ewing Athletics preps their next round of 33 Hi releases. Tomorrow marks the US launch of the royal suede and black leather colorways, each part of the original 1990 run.
One of the retailers that will have pairs on hand is New Jersey’s Packer Shoes, who will push pairs live online at midnight and conduct an in-store release at noon. Buyers will be limited to one pair in each colorway in a size run from 8 – 15. Retail is $100…
Check the list of retailers after the jump, via CounterKicks….
This Friday, some of the best talent from Havana convenes in Brooklyn for a great cause.
Check out the details on Red Hot + Cuba below…
Music Direction by Andres Levin and CuCu Diamantes
Produced by BAM
Co-produced with Paul Heck/The Red Hot Organization in recognition of World AIDS Day (Dec 1) & Andres Levin/Music Has No Enemies
Nine acts representing the vibrant Havana music scene take the stage for a tribute to the sounds of contemporary Cuba. Saunter from the malecón at dawn to smoky clubs at dusk with an all-star lineup of emerging artists and established legends—including Alexander Abreu (of Havana D’Primera), José Luis Cortés (“El Tosco” of NG La Banda), Carlos Varela, CuCu Diamantes, and David Torrens—in this showcase of timba, salsa, nueva trova, and more.
This program is produced by BAM in association with Red Hot Organization in recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1. Part of the proceeds will benefit AIDS prevention and awareness in Cuba.
Featured performers:
Alexander Abreu
José Luis Cortés (“El Tosco”)
CuCu Diamantes
Andres Levín
Kelvis Ochoa
Osdalgia
David Torrens
Roberto Carlos “Cucurucho” Rodriguez Valdés
Carlos Varela
Perhaps lost in the news of the reelection of President Barack Obama last week was the question of Puerto Rican statehood. For the first time in their history as a United States commonwealth, the people of Puerto Rico spoke with their votes on the issue, favoring statehood by a slim margin.
Check out the details below, via CNN:
In an overshadowed Election Day contest, Puerto Ricans voted in favor of statehood in a nonbinding referendum, marking the first time such an initiative garnered a majority.
Puerto Ricans were asked about their desires in two parts. First, by a 54% to 46% margin, voters rejected their current status as a U.S. commonwealth. In a separate question, 61% chose statehood as the alternative, compared with 33% for the semi-autonomous “sovereign free association” and 6% for outright independence.
While the results may be an indicator of what Puerto Ricans want, statehood will not be possible without congressional action in Washington, something that is not guaranteed….
Only time will tell if we will soon welcome a 51st state into the union, but this certainly, at very least opens things up for conversation on a more serious level.
What’s your take? Voice your opinion in the comments.
Start your week with the sounds of Mr. Beres Hammond’s new album, One Love, One Live, via the folks over at LargeUp.
Check out the stream below…
Jamaica’s greatest living singer has a new album, and it is one of his strongest records in years.
We’re still letting it sink in but One Love, One Life, Beres Hammond’s 26th studio album, is sure to go down as one of the best reggae albums of 2012, and maybe even the last decade. Produced by Beres himself (with co-production from Donovan Germain, Collin “Bulby” York and Michael Fletcher), the double-disc LP shows the diversity of the singer known as the “King of Jamaican Lovers Rock,” encompassing dancehall (“Prime Time”), ska (“Can’t Waste No Time,” “Don’t You Feel Like Dancing”), gospel (“I Humble Myself”) and even dub (“The Truth Will Live On”)…
If you live on the other side of the pond, or weren’t able get a pair when they launched in the US a few weeks back, here’s your chance to get down with Ewing Athletics again, as they set for their European relaunch today, November 9th.
Check after the jump for a list of retailers and check out the promo video below created by Sole Haven, one of the fine spots where you can pick them up….
Currently in prison serving a ten-year sentence, Buju sent out the brief message below via Twitter. Check it out below…
To those who stood with me through these trying times, who prayed with me, who wrote letters and called on my behalf, my family and I thank you so much. It has certainly not been an easy road but I will never give up the fight until I am once again reunited with my people and my family.”
“Even then, that’s when the struggle begins, because I must continue fighting for those who I have met and seen their plight and how they are being ‘felonized’ by the government and disenfranchised and violated by the very laws that should be protecting their properties and persons…If you only knew, I pray that this great nation would regain consciousness and defend truth and rights like they should and stand united against a common enemy – injustice. Thanks again for your support.
Starting last night here in NYC, cariBBeing is presenting their third annual Flatbush Film festival through November 10th.
This year’s focus is West Indian film and features a lineup of films from Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad & the UK such as Doubles With Slight Pepper, Ring Di Alarm, Stones In The Sun, No Soca, No Life, Barrio Cuba, as well as the classic 1975 Trinidad/UK drama Pressure, among others.
Screenings will take place at TriBeCa Cinema, Maysles Theater and Brooklyn Heights Cinema and general admission is $15; $10 for students and seniors.
Recently, the Republican nominee for POUTS, Mitt Romney, held a closed door meeting that was secretly taped where he stated that his chances of winning the election might be better if he were born in Mexico.
Actress Rosie Perez offers a rebuttal. Check out the video below….
Mitt thinks he’d have a better chance of become president if he was Latino. In the first video of the Actually… series Rosie Perez explains why it will take more than being Latino for Mitt to win the election.
