Animation will be among the events used to illustrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Jamaica and Japan as the Japan Foundation and the Embassy of Japan in Jamaica stage their first Japanese Animation Film Festival Festival and manga poster competition.

Jamaica’s animation industry is still embryonic, so much so that to describe it as an “industry” seems a little grandiose. However, a growing number of Jamaican animators have enjoyed some success.

The inaugural Kingstoon animation festival and conference ended on June 21 with the selection of eight winners in four categories Character Development, Storyboard or Script, Experimental Animation and Final Animation Product.

Jamaica is set to get a little more animated with the arrival of the Kingstoon Animation Festival, a strategy to position animation as one of the island’s growth areas in the hopes of stimulating the economy and job creation.

The third film in the Iron Man franchise has slammed into movie theatres with all its expected laughs and thrills. Even though it is probably the weakest of the three films, it is far from being a dud.

The Jamaican leg of the 2013 Africa World Documentary Film Festival got underway at the University of the West Indies, Mona, on Wednesday evening with Rwanda-17: The Healing of a Nation.

Songs of Redemption is a telling name for a documentary exploring a music programme amongst prisoners.

Hollywood’s cinematic history is strewn with films born of adaptations from books, many of which have gone on to cop numerous Academy Awards and and even greater quantiy have been blockbusters.

The Kingston Book Festival has added a night celebrating film to its 2013 line-up of events.

Zero Dark 30 chronicles the 10 year man hunt for Osama Bin Laden, and running at almost 3 hours, it seemed insistent that it should take all ten years to tell the story, but maybe that is as it was intended, so that at the end of the film, you join the characters in wondering if