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Jamaica International Reggae Film Festival
Genre	Reggae, film
Location(s)	Kingston, Jamaica
Years active	2008-present
Website	Official Reggae Film Festival website

The Jamaica International Reggae Film Festival is a unique annual event which takes place each year in Kingston, Jamaica, first held in 2008 and held each year since then.

The Reggae Film Festival is coordinated by film maker and film festival organizer Barbara Blake Hannah, former Special Tasks Consultant to the Minister of Culture in collaboration with Peter Gittins of Reggae Films UK to give Jamaicans the opportunity to view some of the best of the hundreds of films made about and because of the world-famous music of Jamaica, that not only reflect the wide interest in Jamaican music, but also bring tourists on vacation and income to members of the entertainment fraternity, as well as the nation.

The Reggae Film Festival is intended as the foundation activity of a Jamaica Film Academy that will archive films for research, screening and education. The Jamaica Film Academy aims to preserve all moving images relating to Jamaica and its musical past.

The festival shows films relating to reggae which are made each year all over the globe, it is a place for Reggae fans to come together each year to watch the latest reggae related films and a place for members of the film industry to link up with each other. International films on non-reggae topics are welcomed and shown annually.

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v t e FIAPF-accredited film festivals
Competitive	Berlin Cairo Cannes Goa Karlovy Vary Locarno Mar del Plata San Sebastián Shanghai Tallinn Tehran Tokyo Venice Warsaw
Competitive specialised	Antalya Busan Cartagena Cluj Gijón Istanbul Kitzbühel Kolkata Kyiv Milan Nur-Sultan Rome Sitges Sofia Sydney Thiruvananthapuram Turin
Non-competitive	Toronto Vienna
Documentary/ short	Bilbao Kraków Oberhausen Tampere
Formerly accredited	Adelaide Bogotá Brussels Ghent Haugesund Jeonju Minsk Montreal Moscow Namur São Paulo Sarajevo St. Petersburg Stockholm Thessaloniki Wiesbaden Wrocław

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