Rasta's Paradise

By: Parine Jaddo (parinejaddo@yahoo.com) Description Rasta's Paradise is a fifty minute documentary film that combines music performances, informal improvisations, and interviews with Rastafarians during the 60th Birthday commemoration for Bob Marley in February 2005. It is all shot in Ethiopia starting in the capital Addis Ababa and then travels to Shashamene, the land that was given by Emperor Haile Selassie to Diaspora Africans. The documentary is constructed of segments with "live" music from the concerts during the celebrations, some improvised music on the bus to Shashemene, and drumming from the Drums of Rasta, along with a collage of chats with many Rastafarians in Shashemene. In the film Rastafari ways are explained as well as the interconnections between the Diaspora blacks, Africa, origin of the movement, connections to the Jamaican black leader Marcus Garvey, and the reason for repatriation to Ethiopia. With the divinity of His Imperial Majesty Emperor HaileSelassie a central rallying point amongst the various groups within the Rastafarian family, they all insist on and the need for peace in the human family. From the ancients of the Nyabinghi Order, to Dr. Desta, the managing director of the Bob Marley Foundation, to artists musicians like Teddy Dan, a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, to Ras King of the Drums of Rastas, entrepreneurs like Shaft, the owner of the Rift Valley Hotel, and Rasta teachers at the Jamaica Rastafari Development Community School ...



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