'Ghett'A Life' film to open in United Kingdom

Hit Jamaican film Ghett'A Life, which played for over 10 unbroken weeks in Jamaica, will open nationwide in the United Kingdom (UK) starting Friday, December 2, 2011. The film will be shown in Streatham, Newham, Hackney, Brixton, Bristol, Birmingham, Derby, Dudley, Coventry, Leicester, Bristol, Cardiff and Leeds, with other cinema's expected to come on stream in the coming weeks.

Having won the Hartley-Merrill Scriptwriters Award at the internationally acclaimed Cannes Film Festival, then opening to rave reviews in Jamaica, the film has been invited to be screened at the prestigious African International Film Festival in Nigeria, December 3, and the Pan African Film Festival scheduled for February, 2012 in Los Angeles. Producer Justine Henzell will make the trip to Nigeria to represent the film.

Writer and Director Chris Browne was extremely pleased to have secured a nationwide UK release for the film and said, "This is an important milestone for Ghett'A Life and for the Jamaican film industry, given that the film will be the first Jamaican-produced and financed movie to show nationwide across the UK. We look forward to widespread support from all communities as we promote the message of the film, 'unity in the community'."