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Starsinparadise.com
invites you to participate in the Bahamas Film Industry timeline update.
What is the Bahamas Film Industry timeline update?
The Bahamas Film Industry timeline update is an online information gathering process. It is open to the public to provide documented information on the accomplishments of Bahamians who rose to fame as a pioneer in the Bahamas Film Industry or as a contributor to the American Film Industry.
Many Bahamian pioneers in the film industry have been lost in time, others overlooked by the establishments of the past or simply had their importance ignored because of race, color, religious belief, social status, political affiliation, sexual view point or life management philosophy. As a result many are missing from the pages of conventional records. In continued celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Bahamas Film Industry, we are launching into the future by honoring the accomplishments of those that came before us, as well as the unsung heroes still among us.
If you know anyone who qualifies to be honored in the new official update of the Bahamas Film Industry timeline
now in progress, please recommend them by providing us with a brief documented account of their story in the comment section of starsinparadise.com.
Guide lines for participation in the Bahamas Film Industry timeline update.
1. Properly identify yourself with your contact, first and last name, email as well as a telephone
number in the event we need to follow up.
2. Your recommendation comments should be no more than seventy-five words or less.
3. Enter your recommendation comments with the headline that reads, example: “Recommending
John Doe” followed by documented information in the comment box at the bottom of
starsinparadise.com, (files will be stored for review by the Bahamas Film Industry timeline
committee for timeline placement consideration).
Statement of integrity and governance of the Bahamas Film Industry timeline update
starsinparadise.com is the official data entry point authorized to receive documented recommendations of Bahamians to be considered for inclusion in the Bahamas Film Industry timeline update. Starsinparadise.com is not a platform for launching complaints, protest, personal attacks or engaging in chat fights or discussions. The platform is not designed to respond to inquiries. Starsinparadise.com reserves the right to not process or discontinue processing of timeline posting at its discretion and for any reason, with or without prior notice. Being posted in the timeline is considered a well earned honorable privilege, not a right that’s enforceable. We invite the participation of everyone, as each entry will be received with respectful consideration and process without prejudice and at the highest level of professionalism. Thank you for your participation.
Heavily inspired by the success of box-office superstar, Jefford Curre', the inventor of the Bahamas Film Industry, new writers want to make their dreams come true. Whether they are in the Bahamas, San Francisco or Japan, they want to make this happen with their names still on the writing credits on opening night. It's a wishful desire, but few screenwriter filmmakers may have the spiritual fortitude or industry connections to lead a convincing Hollywood argument. Screenwriters want the ultimate recognition and career launch, that could derive from just one of their creative works. Keeping your name in the game, is the name of the game, however it is an extremely difficult thing to accomplish in today's monetary conscience film buying world that's driven by name power not talent. Labels with contractual obligations of a well stacked established film writers roster, will always find it a better business decision to ignore the risky new comer. In the eyes of fast dividend seeking investors, an unknown writer would find it an easier task to locate a needle in a hay stack, than to expect priority consideration. So how exactly does a new writer get his/her name in lights? Well actually they don’t.
Actually that is not entirely true. The really creative unsigned writer can always figure out a way to use a search light or a candle to illuminate his/her name on the final draft. He/she can accomplish this best while sitting in a dark apartment with no electricity, but other than that, there have been very few options, if any. Before you start laughing at the poor little writing people, let us finish. Stars In Paradise have learned through the grape vines of Hollywood, that getting to keep your name on a manuscript is not just a poor unknown or unpublished writers problem. We have found out that even the established season unknown writers with money, family clout, government connections and beautiful faces can't break this almost impenetrable industry fraternity code. Lets try to remain positive and industrially honest when it comes to the success of screenplay manuscripts and books. It's all about, who wrote it, not what it's about or how well it's written.
It's ironic that Jefford Curré would end up as the pioneer of the Bahamas Film Industry. Before his first trip to America as a young adult, pursuing film studies, he had not even set foot inside a movie theater. By 1990, the Bahamas was a nation trapped in the success of a volatile tourist trade. It was becoming more obvious that new innovation would be needed to secure future job market. The thought of indigenous people operating their own movie company was laughable. Jefford Curré saw the vision of the future and a clear shot for his people to rise toward real economic prosperity. He requested his parents to grant him his share of the family's inheritance in advance.
Like all pioneers his obstacles were endless. The bank demanded to hold the family's $80,000 property in order to give a mere $15,000 loan, which was a far cry from the original request of $30,000. Then they surprisingly stretched the loan distribution over a very long period, in small increments. It was an advanced predatory maneuver beyond the experience of the young entrepreneur. It created a dilemma that left him minus the family's property and literally the clothes on his back. He was facing major embarrassment with a nervous wife in one arm and a crying baby in the other. 
As a big advocate of honor, respect and allegiance, Jefford Curré holds the Bahamas Film Industry's Distinguished Medal of Honor. He is the first inductee into the Bahamas Movie Hall Of Fame and leads by strategic influence, a new world of box-office excitement. More than just a leader he is an artist beyond compare and a powerful inspiration to anyone who struggles to make impossible dreams come true. He lives between homes in the Bahamas and Los Angeles, when not on tour at least 200 dates a year. He is often accompanied by his wife, Darlene and two daughters Danielle and RiQashan. They are all successful full-time box-office entrepreneurs in the global scope of the fast growing spectacular cinema movement, now branded as the Bahamas Film Industry, (bahamasmovieindustry.com). Long before Bahamian film festivals, screen actors associations, film camps and cinema societies, there was Jefford Curré forging the Bahamas indigenous movie landscape into being. From an original indigenous cinema point of view, the Curré family reigns as the Bahamas First Family of Cinema. Jefford, Darlene, Danielle, and RiQashan make up the core of a powerful indigenous international cinema group that's 7,000 strong and growing. 
