Tale of crooked cricket goes to Hollywood

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The tiny island of Barbados, better known for flying fish than filmmaking, has offered up its hugely successful — by local standards — ‘Hit For Six!’ to the American Black Film Festival in Los Angeles this weekend.

A tale of match fixing in West Indian cricket and one man’s journey from score-rigger to redemption, the movie written, acted, directed and produced by Caribbean artists is the first Barbadian entry into a prominent international contest.

Jamaica’s Palace Amusements and Trinidad-based Goldmine Entertainment have secured Caribbean-wide distribution deals and are hoping to vault the Blue Waters Production into global visibility with screenings at Mann Theaters in Los Angeles beginning Saturday.

The movie features an all-Caribbean cast, but some may be familiar to viewers throughout the Western Hemisphere, including MTV Tempo host Jeanille Bonterre of Trinidad and Barbadian actress Alison Sealy-Smith, who now works in Canada.

Posted by Carol J. Williams in Miami