BY RICHARD JOHNSON—
Jampro and its film office hinted at the shift in its focus in a release issued at the end of June, noting that it has partnered with the Jamaica Film and Television Association (JAFTA) to support the production of five Jamaican short films to be shown at the September 2016 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF).
This was being done through the PROPELLA! Initiative which aims to support the talent of Jamaican filmmakers, and garner international exposure for Jamaican culture through film.
Under PROPELLA!, five projects — Origins by Kurt Wright and Noelle Kerr; Adrian Lopez’s Shock Value; Shoot the Girl, the project by Tony Hendricks and Natalie Thompson; Sugar — a collaboration by Laurie Parker, Sharon Leach and Michelle Serieux, and The Silent Ones by Gregory Lopez and Janet Morrison — were chosen through a blind selection process by JAFTA and JAMPRO. These projects will receive support which includes training in pitching projects, festival strategy, script consultation, directing for short films and deal-making, as well as funding to carry the projects to the North American and Caribbean markets.
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