Quickies: Richie in loop with three singles

Richie Loop of Big Yard Music Label/Scikron Entertainment has released three new singles within one month. These three energetic releases are Love Zone, Gyal Yuh Body Clean and What You Thinking. Love Zone is featured on the 'One Away Riddim' and Gyal Yuh Body Clean can be found on the 'Hot Noodles Riddim', both produced by Robert Livingston for Big Yard Music Label/Scikron Entertainment. Love Zone is also on the Dancehall Rock album, released last month.

Expectations are especially high for What You Thinking, a scorching hot club banger that features Pretti Kitti and is guaranteed to get revelers moving.

In addition to the slew of new recordings, Richie Loop continues to perform for his fans, including at the Jamaica International Kite Festival in St Ann last Monday, where he gave a resounding performance alongside Fambo and Ajrenalin, to the satisfaction of the thousands in attendance. Richie Loop will perform at the highly anticipated Best of the Best Concert at Bicentennial Park, Miami, on May 29 (Memorial Day Weekend).

$50,000 24-hour film prize

The Jamaica Film Academy has announced that first-time sponsors RBC/RBTT will support the special programme 'Make a Film in 24 Hours' in the Reggae Film Festival 2011. RBC/RBTT will award $50,000 to the competition's winner as well as prizes of Jamaican vacations and film school scholarships, among the incentives.

This is the second staging of the competition, in which the producers of the Reggae Film Festival invite Jamaica-based filmmakers, professionals or amateurs, to use film, video or cell phone cameras to make a five-minute film in 24 hours. Filming begins on Monday, May 23, and the finished film is due the following morning. Entries will be shown nightly during the Reggae Film Festival.

This key sponsorship supports the objectives of the RBC Emerging Artist programme, where the company seeks to inspire development of the arts, particularly for emerging artists in the Caribbean and Canada. RBC/RBTT already sponsors the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, so the bank considered the Reggae Film Festival a "perfect fit" in terms of the potential benefits to the bank's business, corporate brand visibility and employee engagement plans.

All production in the contest takes place in 24 hours only. To ensure that no pre-filming takes place before, entrants are informed one hour before the competition starts of a theme and/or element that must be incorporated in their film. Films must be five minutes long, submitted in mini-DV, DVD or DATA-mpeg and contain no explicit sexual, violent or illegal images.

GURU tees launched

Publicist and marketing GURU, Kemar Daswell has launched his brand new comfy, edgy and sexy tees for both male and female dubbed 'GURU'. According to the designer the shirts will not be a mass production as for now, as Guru Tees will be an exclusive brand supplying members of the creative industry as well as the wider public.

According to fashion blogger Ashlei Fearce "these tees are a must have. You can dress them with a blazer (male and female) and accessories (female) and dress them down, depending on your mood".

Guru Tees first collection, 'Love Addiction', features lips on both the male and female shirts, as the designer says that the lips symbolise the concept he was going for. "The lips are placed on the shoulder of the male shirt to illustrate when a man goes out and his girlfriend gives him a kiss it stays there, until the wife sees it, and for the female its placed at the back as often times when a woman walks past the male looks back and checks her out and where the lips are is the first place he looks," Daswell said.

Daswell is set to release his new collection within weeks.