Sprinter (2018)
Drama | Sport
A boy separated from his mother who has moved to the U.S. for a better life, is set to be Jamaica's next track-and-field sensation.
Starring: David Alan Grier, Lorraine Toussaint, Bryshere Y. Gray, Usain Bolt, Shantol Jackson, Pablo Ramos, Natasha Kalimada, Darren Lee Campbell
Director: Storm Saulter
Yardie (2018)
Crime
Set in '70s Kingston and '80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D, who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread. D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox. Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne, and his daughter who he's not seen since she was a baby. He also hooks up with a soundclash crew, called High Noon. But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow "the righteous path", he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier, and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution – a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico.
Starring: Aml Ameen, Everaldo Creary, Sheldon Shepherd, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham
Director: Idris Elba
