Tale of crooked cricket goes to Hollywood
The tiny island of Barbados, better known for flying fish than filmmaking, has offered up its hugely successful — by local standards — "Hit For Six!" to the American Black Film Festival in Los Angeles this weekend.
A tale of match fixing in West Indian cricket and one man’s journey from score-rigger to redemption, the movie written, acted, directed and produced by Caribbean artists is the first Barbadian entry into a prominent international contest.
Jamaica’s Palace Amusements and Trinidad-based Goldmine Entertainment have secured Caribbean-wide distribution deals and are hoping to vault the Blue Waters Production into global visibility with screenings at Mann Theaters in Los Angeles beginning Saturday.
The movie features an all-Caribbean cast, but some may be familiar to viewers throughout the Western Hemisphere, including MTV Tempo host Jeanille Bonterre of Trinidad and Barbadian actress Alison Sealy-Smith, who now works in Canada.
Posted by Carol J. Williams in Miami
