“The Price of Memory” of Jamaica premieres in Kingston on September 7

“The Price of Memory” a feature documentary film by Jamaican filmmaker Karen MarksMafundikwa, will have its Jamaican premiere in Kingston at UWI Mona on September 7,2014. The film has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature Award at the upcoming Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival 2014 in September. Filmed over a decade, it follows a group of Rastafari who petitioned Queen Elizabeth II for slavery reparations on her last visit to Jamaica, and a lawsuit for slavery reparations filed against the Queen. It recounts the story of earlier Rastas who pursued reparations in the 1960s and an official mission to Africa to organize repatriation. The filmmaker travels across England exploring its legacy of slavery, as well as the British Royal Family’s history of slavery, while the debate about reparations reaches both the UK and Jamaican parliament. This is the first feature length documentary film to be produced in Jamaica in the last two years.
“The Price of Memory” is being presented by the Rastafari Studies Unit at UWI. The location is Neville Hall Lecture Theatre (N1), Faculty of Humanities and Education. For more information, contact Karen Marks Mafundikwa 484 7123 or thepriceofmemory@gmail.com. “The Price of Memory” features appearances by Queen Elizabeth II, attorney Michael Lorne, reparations advocate Barbara Blake Hannah, academics Prof. Verene Shepherd and Dr. Clinton Hutton, as well as Rastafari elders Sam Clayton, Philmore Alvaranga andDouglas Mack. The film was an official selection of Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. It was also part of a special program in Glasgow during the Commonwealth Games, put on by Africa in Motion Film Festival on the legacy of the Commonwealth.
Karen Marks Mafundikwa is a Jamaican filmmaker and the director/producer of The Price of Memory. Previously, she produced documentary feature film Shungu: The Resilience of a People, following ordinary people in Zimbabwe during economic crisis and political stalemate. It has screened on three continents including IDFA (Amsterdam) and BFI London Film Festival; winner of Ousmane Sembene Award at Zanzibar Film Festival and Best Documentary, Kenya International Film Festival. It has been broadcast in Jamaica and internationally.

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