Keznamdi teams up with JaBBEM for Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica’s Coastline

Grammy winning reggae artiste Keznamdi has joined forces with local activist group, JaBBEM for the production of Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica’s Coastline, short film that blends music, activism, and storytelling.

Directed by Kingston based film-making duo, Emiel Martens and Elsie Vermeer and produced by Caribbean Creativity, Beach Inna Bondage, captures the growing fight for public access to Jamaica’s beaches.

Through striking visuals and firsthand accounts, the documentary reveals how privatization has left less than one percent of the island’s coastline accessible to Jamaicans. It follows grassroots resistance efforts at key locations including Bob Marley Beach, the Blue Lagoon and Little Dunn’s River, where communities are pushing back against large-scale tourism developments.

Beach Inna Bondage premiered at Café Rosa on May 2,

The film shows next at Skyline Levels May 16.