Films and Plays

HOLLAND FILM MEETING

OFFICIAL SELECTION: ‘Sinned Marten’ written by Tony Hendriks and Gillian Royes, to be directed by Peter Sagnia! On to the Festival in Utrecht, Sept. 23 - 26, 2022 to pitch our script to producers.

Love our hardworking team!

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If you’d told me years ago that I’d be writing film scripts and plays, I would have told you you’d gotten your Jamaicans confused. Now I find myself writing scripts and loving every moment. It started quite simply, with a request from a director for a short film script.

That director was Peter Sagnia, and he turned my script into the film Preciosa, shot in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands in 2016. The film traces the tragic fate of a young woman from the Dominican Republic who is tricked into becoming a prostitute in St. Croix. Another short feature script of mine, Family, was shot in St. Martin subsequently, also by Peter Sagnia. 

The Shad Series is the inspiration for a series for cable TV that I’m co-writing with comedian-producer-director Tony Hendriks. The other writing projects are a drama about an elderly Jamaican in the US who spirals into homelessness.

As for plays, the theatrical script for How to be an Immigrant, which won a Pistarkle Theater New Playwrights Award in 2017, was performed at the Academy Theater in Atlanta, Georgia in August 2018, directed by Brenda Porter and was well received.

But there’s always more to do, isn’t there?