Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica’s Coastline + Introduction + Q&A
18 90 mins
18 90 mins
Beach Inna Bondage (2026, 30’) is a documentary by Kingston-based filmmaking duo Emiel Martens and Elsie Vermeer in collaboration with the Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement (JaBBEM) and recent Grammy-winning Jamaican reggae artiste Keznamdi exploring the growing struggle for beach access in Jamaica.
Since the 1950s, public access to the island’s beaches has steadily declined, leaving less than one percent of the coastline publicly accessible for Jamaicans. Beach Inna Bondage shows that beach access, which is not only an issue in Jamaica but across the Caribbean and beyond, is an urgent matter of historical, economic, social, cultural and environmental justice, raising the question of who the tropical paradise of sun, sand, and sea truly serves, and at what cost...