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Shaggy, Wyclef among headliners at Wome


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Grammy award winners
 Shaggy and Wyclef
 Jean will be among the
top acts appearing at the 10th
Annual World Creole Music
Festival from Oct. 27-29 at
Pottersville Savannah in
Dominica.
 The festival will open with
the Jamaican-born dancehall
artiste Shaggy, who won a
Grammy Award for "Best
Reggae Album" in 1995 and
Dominica's own WCK, creators
of Bouyon music. Other per-
formances will include T-Vice
from Haiti, Royalty Band from
the U.S. and Zouk Flam from
Guadeloupe.
 The next day, Haitian-born
Wyclef Jean, formerly with The
Fugees, will perform. Joining
him will be Triple Kay from
Dominica, performers of zouk,


compas, reg-
gae, cadance,
dancehall and
local bouyon
music; and
Swinging
Stars, also
from
Dominica,
featuring
Hunter and
King Dice. Wyclef Jean
The sounds of
Sakis and Djakout will com-
plete the evening's line-up.

'THE DRAGON'
 Dominica's Impromptu
Band will take the stage on Oct.
29, along with "The Dragon"
Byron Lee of Jamaica, Admiral
T of Gaudeloupe, as well as
Tabou Combo and Carimi, both
from Haiti.


 Digicel is the platinum
sponsor of this year's World
Creole Music Festival. Other
sponsors include Heineken,
 Kubuli,
 CaribVision,
 Appleton
 Jamaica Rum
 and
 Caribbean
 Star and
 Caribbean
 T Sun Airlines.
 S" .For more
 information
Shaggy on the festival,
 contact the
Dominica Festivals Commission
(DFC) at 767-448-2045 or visit the
festival's website at www.world-
creolemusicfestival, dm
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Success of 'Harder They Come' amazes filmmaker Perry Henzell


TORONTO, Canada, CMC -
Jamaican filmmaker Perry
Henzell says he is "amazed" at
the "phenomenal" success of
the movie "The Harder They
Come", since it had been a
"hard sell" when it was
released in 1972.
 Henzell was speak-
ing with patrons, who
attended the screening of
a restored version of the
movie at the ongoing
Toronto International
Film Festival (TIFF) in
Canada last month. He
said it was impossible to
get a distributor, and
when no international i
company would take the
film, he personally took i
it to some 36 countries
over a six-year period.
 "When the movie
opened in Brixton, nobody
came. We printed 2,000 flyers
and got runners to plaster
them everywhere and the next
night, the place was rammed,"
he recalled.

IMPACT
 The movie was shown in a
section of the 10-day film festi


 val called "Dialogues: Talking
 with Pik IurL where film
t directors were invited to
 "select and discuss films that
 have inspired them, had a sig-
 nificant impact on them, or
 were pivotal in the progression


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of their own -.,r rs .
 The restored version of
"The Harder They Come"
also contains 20 new shots.
The movie, which starred
reggae icon Jimmy Cliff, also
launched the acting career of
Carl Bradshaw, who was a high
school teacher at the time.
 He told the audience that


no one realized how big the
film would become, as for
many of the actors it was just
"a mackerel and banana"
movie.
 "What that means is we
didn't really see it as having
any substance but it could feed
you and keep you from starv-
 ing. I had no
 idea I was
 launching my
 career," said
 the award-
 winning actor
 and movie
 producer, who
 has appeared
Henzell in almost
 every movie
shot in Jamaica, including
"Third World Cop", Smile
Orange", "The Ltuniiiki ,
"Klash" and "Dancehall
Queen".
 Henzell's second movie,
"No Place Like Home", was
one of two Jamaican movies to
premier at this year's Toronto
Film Festival, the other being
"Made in Jamaica".


L.A. nightclub cancels Buju Banton show


LOS ANGLES, CMC -
Managers of a nightclub here
last month cancelled an October
performance by Jamaican reg-
gae artiste Mark Myrie, also
known as Buju Banton, after
customers raised concerns about
his anti-gay lyrics.
 Press reports stated that e-
mail messages and telephone
calls from patrons prompted the
cancellation of the Oct. 2 show.
 "We felt it was the right
thing to do after doing some


research on the matter," said
Adam Manacker, general man-
ager of the Highland nightclub
and restaurant.

STUNTED
 Earlier this year Buju
Banton and Beenie Man,
another Jamaican reggae star,
had shows in London cancelled
after activists condemned them
for their homophobic tunes.
One of Buju Banton's earlier
songs "Boom Bye Bye" glori-


fies the shooting of gay men.
However, his most recent album
"Too Bad", released last month,
omits homophobic lyrics.
 The husky-voiced star has
been a major figure in Jamaica
since the early 1990s with brash
dancehall music and, more
recently, a traditional reggae
sound. But his career has been
stunted in the United States
and Britain because of his atti-
tude toward gays.
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Miami The Women's
International Film Festival
South Florida (WIFF) is seek-
ing films for its second annual
festival which will take place
Mar. 29-April 1, 2007.
 Screenings will be held in
both Miami-Dade and
Broward counties.
 Festival entries will be
accepted into two main cate-
gories, "U.S. Fem-Cinema",
for women from or living in
the United States and "World
iL \ I\\ for women who
come from other countries.
 Filmmakers may enter
feature length (70 minutes or
longer) narrative/dramatic
films or feature length docu-
mentaries. The festival will
also accept dramatic shorts
and short documentary films
(films 49 minutes or less).
 Cash and prizes will be
given for the best films.
 "We're really excited to
have juried competitions with
both American and interna-
tional filmmakers being
judged separately this year,"
Yvonne McCormack-Lyons,
executive director of the festi-
val said in a press release
issued last month. "It pro-
vides our audiences the
opportunity to see from the
eyes of women here in the
U.S., as well as a window into
the thematic and JL~Ithl itk
concerns of issues stemming
from across the globe."

SHOWCASE
 The WIFF is a four-day
"Women's History Month"
celebration showcasing


he cultural diversity of
 artists and art organiza-
 tions will be the focus
of a Cultural Diversity Artists'
Forum this month in Hollywood,
Florida.
 The workshop, set for
7 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Okalee
Museum, 5710 Seminole Way,
will encourage dialogue with
artists and arts organizations in
order to identify their needs.
 It will also offer artists an
opportunity to learn about the
different services offered by the
Broward County Commission's
Cultural Division, to learn new
skills for career enhancement
and network with other artists
and arts organizations, as well
as information on grants,
workshops, school and commu-
nity artist residencies, teaching
opportunities, publications and
marketing.
 "The Cultural Diversity


women's films, visual art and
other art forms. The event
also includes workshops,
panel discussions, symposia,
and parties celebrating women
artists.
 "The mission of WIFF is
to bring together women
artists from all over the world
to explore, share and dialogue
about issues concerning
women through the arts," said
McCormack-Lyons. "With
women representing only five
to seven percent of filmmak-
ers, it is no wonder that the
images of women and the sub-
ject matter of films presented
to the general public are often
less than ideal. With these
kinds of statistics, WIFF's role
is very important."
 Filmmakers can submit
their films to: Women's
International Film Festival,
P.O. Box 120337, Fort
Lauderdale, FL 33312 or
through the website www.wif-
fonline.org where they can
view complete submission
rules and information.
 Submission deadlines and
processing fees are: Early
submission deadline: Oct. 31,
2006, $25 features and $20
shorts; official submission
deadline, Nov. 30, 2006, $30
features and $25 shorts; and
late submission, Dec. 7, 2006,
$40 features and $35 short
films.
 For more information
about the WIFF, call 954-937-
8299 or log onto www.wiffon-
line.org.
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Artists' Forums are a wonder-
ful opportunity for us to learn
about the area's artists, as well
as openly discuss new ideas and
future needs, of artists and arts
organizations," said Mary A.
Becht, director of the Cultural
Division.
 For more information about
the free forum, which is being
held in partnership with the
Seminole Tribe of Florida, call
Adriane C(lrl, grants special-
ist, at 954-357-7530 or e-mail:
aclarke@broward.org; or Terresa
Ford, arts education specialist,
at teford@broward org or
954-357-8007.
 Online registration
can be made visiting
www.broward org/arts and
clicking on "Workshops".
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Florida hosts forum


 on artist diversity


October 2006


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