Young author-illustrator-artist Kerron Clarke spent her childhood trying to cope with the experience of sexual abuse. Kerron is one of thousands who deal with harrowing sexual abuse. More than 1 in 5 Jamaican girls report forced sex. In many cases, the perpetrators aren’t strangers lurking in the dark – they are trusted family… Read more →←
Author: Ross Sheil
In an increasingly connected world, children are more vulnerable to online abuse – from sexual predators to cyber-bullying. In Unspoken, one of three films made for the #KeepChildrenSafe series, Director Kurt Wright portrays a disturbing trick – a young victim who is lured by social media into a job interview and ends up being… Read more →←
KINGSTON, April 28, 2016 – It is an uncommon day for the Jamaican families who are gathered in a room in the city centre. They are here to answer a raft of questions about their children who live with disabilities. The workshop in Jamaica is the last in a series of cognitive testing exercises already conducted in India and the United… Read more →←
Gabrielle Blackwood is in a tough part of town. On set at Kingston’s Haile Selassie Secondary School, she is directing “Bully” – a real tale narrated by former student D’andra. The taunting teenagers acting in Bully – who are recreating D’andra’s painful experiences – are convincing. Their aggression comes too easily.… Read more →←
“Ordained” is how Milton Tomlinson describes a life that has changed him from being the youth holding a gun. Now he is the 43-year-old man who persuades younger versions of himself to put down the gun and pick up something more positive for the rest of their lives. If his life in a soundbite sounds like a movie script treatment then… Read more →←
