Category: Caribbean Region

People had been coming to Ziggy Marley and his family for years with ideas about how to turn reggae icon Bob Marley’s life into a movie. But it never felt quite right, until a few years ago when they decided to be the instigators.

The year is 1999, and it’s a terrific year for cinema. The Matrix captivated viewers with a digital world, The Phantom Menace took audiences back to a galaxy far, far away. In Jamaican cinemas, the place people wanted to go was right in their own backyards. The breakout success at the turn of the century was none other than Third World Cop, but by today’s standards, it may never have been made.

Eleven years after the release of his successful Jamaica 50 compilation, Tad Dawkins, founder and head of Tad’s Records, has assembled an eclectic array of artistes for his reggae album in tribute to Jamaica’s 61st year of Independence. Titled…