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The DBA Foundation
is pleased to present the awardees for the Year 1998.
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Lifetime
Achievement |
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Blackwell
– Producer/Executive Producer - Film/Video: Dance
Hall Queen; Mandela; Father of a Nation; The Lunatic; Big
Time; Sweet Lies; Choose Me; Countryman |
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Evan
Jones –
Screenwriter – Prolific screenwriter (novelist and
poet); Film: Shadow of the Wolf; Show of Force;
Kangaroo; Champions; The Killing of Angel Street; Modesty
Blaise; Funeral in Berlin; Eva; These are the Damned;
TV Series: Fight Against Slavery |
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Martin
Rennalls – Producer/Director -
“father and pioneer of Jamaican film industry”
and recipient of several national and trade awards;
Produced primarily educational documentaries out of the
JIS Film Unit in 1950s-1960s; Pioneered the “day
light” screen in Jamaica for screenings via the Mobile
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Performer
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Bradshaw – Film/Television Actor -
Film: Dance Hall Queen; Klash; The Lunatic;
The Mighty Quinn; Club Paradise; Countryman; Marijuana
Affair; Smile Orange; Harder They Come; TV: TRAXX; |
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Jimmy
Cliff – Film Actor/ Soundtrack Composer/Singer - Film:
Marked for Death; Club Paradise; Bungo Man; Harder
They Come;
TV: Space Ghost – Coast to Coast; Speck;
Soundtrack Composer/Singer: Cool Runnings; Harder They
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Oliver
Samuels
– Film/Television Actor/Comedian – Film: The
Mighty Quinn; Countryman; In Like Flyn; TV: Oliver;
Oliver at Large; Sarge in Charge; Going to Extremes (Lorimar);
TRAXX; Fight Against Slavery and Brothers and Sisters (BBC
TV); Royal Palm Estate; Chef; |
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Campbell – Film/Television Actor -
Film: Dance Hall Queen; The Lunatic; Soul
Survivor; Milk and Honey; Klash; Country of the One-eyed
God;
TV: Going to Extremes; Passion and Paradise;
Return to Treasure Island; Win Some, Lose Some; |
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Sheryl
Lee Ralph – Film/Television Actress – Film:White
Man’s Burden: Sister Act 2; Distinguished Gentleman; The
Flintstones; To Sleep with Anger; The Mighty Quinn;
Mistress; TV: Moesha; Designing Women; Wonder
Woman; |
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Posthumous
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Buckner – Producer/Director/Set Designer (Deceased)
– prolific producer director; TV Series:
Perspective; Spectrum; Lime Tree Lane; Parish Profiles;
Heritage; Salome; Traditional Series:
Revival; Etu; Jonkonnu |
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Madge
Sinclair – Film/Television Actress (Deceased)-
Prolific performer – Film: The Lion King;
Coming to America; Star Trek – The Voyage Home; Convoy;
Conrac; Cornbread, Earl & Me; TV: Trapper John
M.D.; Gabriel’s Fire; Queen; Roots; Look Away; Story of
Jim Jones; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Tales from The
Crypt; |
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Special
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Horace
Ove – Director (and Photographer) -
Cited in Guinness Book of Records as the first
Caribbean British filmmaker for British Film Institute’s
– Pressure and for the first Black independently
produced film – Reggae.
Noted for his feature films: Playing Away; A
Hole in Babylon; When Love Dies; Moving Portraits and documentaries:
Baldwin’s Nigger, King Carnival, The Art of the Needle;
Skateboard Kings; Redemption Song; Native Son and TV
mini-series: Orchid House
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