Mykal Fax wrote Jamaican Mafia because of some similar real-life experiences he had growing up. Did that have any effect on your decision to make Jamaican Mafia? There seems to be a huge trend of Caribbean films, and African films, that have found an audience in the United States. Everyone worked together to make Jamaican Mafia the biggest and best independent film in American-Jamaican history to date! The good part is we had the best team anyone can ask for between the much-dedicated and extremely talented cast and crew. You have to go from one location to the next, requesting to strangers that we (filmmakers) would like to film for hours upon hours of time for “free” at their business.
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There’s very little money and everyone’s working based on a “labor of love,” so to speak, hoping it pays off after the movie releases and generates sales. There are two very important ingredients that keep people on board and focused: passion and dedication. Other than that, everything else is different, including the story line, producers, actors, crew, theme, etc.Īs an independent filmmaker, can you talk about the process of putting together a film like this?Įverything’s more difficult when you’re independent. Again, the only relation to Shottas is Paul. Several people were under the impression that we were Shottas 2. The only similarities are violence and Paul Campbell.
It’s nothing like those movies mentioned. Jamaican Mafia is in a world all of its own. What do you say to people about the comparison of Jamaican gangster movies like Shottas, Third World Cop and other similar kinds of movies?
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We were done with everything within 1.5 years, but with touch-ups and added/changed scenes, in full it was a good two years in time. Scenes after were added and/or redone into that year following the two months. Shooting was done mostly by Sean Fortune and Vafomba Donzo and most of that was completed within two months. After we all reviewed and discussed with Orville Matherson and Elvis Griffiths, we pieced together the entire film and cleaned up what needed to be done and then Donzo completed editing. In the time following, it took several months to edit the film and that was done by Vafomba Donzo, our Director, while Mykal input the subtitles one-by-one. While Mykal cast the main characters, I cast extras and found locations to film, as we scheduled and completed most scenes within about 1.5 months’ time. This was done early on, within the first couple of months of its birth. He’s been working with several of the cast members for years on other projects and knew while he was writing the script exactly who he had in mind for each role.
How long did it take to cast, edit and shoot?Īs far as casting for Jamaican Mafia, that was done mostly by Mykal Fax. His life turns around when he reluctantly decides to join a very illicit organization, better known as the Jamaican Mafia. Coincidentally, in his desperate quest of gaining riches and respect, he quits the corporate world and suddenly comes to discover he’s the nephew of a powerful crime boss. Jamaican Mafia is a gangster-thriller in the vein of Goodfellas and Shottas that tells the story of a frustrated car salesman, Zoolian Anderson (“Zoo-Zoo”).
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