From Yard The Collection, an immigrant city drama depicting the journey of a Jamaican man as he seeks his private {and professional} goal amidst the gritty backdrop of New York Metropolis streets, debuted to an enthusiastic and sizable viewers at Sovereign Middle’s Palace Cineplex theater in Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday, Sept. 18th.
A star-studded capability crowd, which included famend names from the worlds of leisure and sports activities corresponding to former 100-meter world report holder Asafa Powell, reggae dancehall artist and producer Agent Sasco, award-winning actress Deon Silvera, and lots of others, greeted the one-hour pilot with laughter, cheers and thunderous applause at its conclusion.
The occasion was hosted by broadcaster, journalist, and educator Paula-Anne Porter-Jones and award-winning playwright and actor David Heron, who additionally seems within the sequence in a significant supporting position.
Based mostly on a real story …
From Yard is an immigrant city drama that traces the true life story of Jamaican-born Dave G Heron (to not be confused with the aforementioned David Heron), from his humble childhood beginnings in Maverley, Kingston by means of his subsequent emigration to the USA and his turbulent adolescence and younger maturity on the streets of New York Metropolis within the Nineteen Seventies and 80s.
The sequence relies on Heron’s autobiographical novel Yardie and is believed to be the first-ever tv manufacturing to look at the pursuit of the American dream by means of the eyes of a Jamaican household.
Becoming a member of within the festivities had been different members of the principally Jamaican solid together with sequence lead Shevrado Oliver who performs David G Heron, Glen “Titus” Campbell, Darron Donaldson, Miranda Melhado, Claire Dennison, Zole Onoura, Romar Banton and Adam Christian, making his skilled performing debut within the position of younger Dave G Heron.
Additionally in attendance had been sequence producers, together with Government Producer Dave G Heron, Producer Phaedra Benford, and Producer-Director Leland Benford.
Authentically from yaad
Within the talkback phase held after the screening between the solid, producers, and the hosts, Producer-Director Benford pressured the significance that his staff positioned on authenticity through the manufacturing course of, which he believes resulted in a tremendously constructive viewers response because the present unfolded.
“From the very starting we knew we wanted to shoot this in Jamaica, in genuine Jamaican areas and with genuine Jamaican actors,” he said.
Background studying: New TV series pilot From Yard full cast announced
“It was simply too vital a venture for the Jamaican individuals and tradition to not be precisely represented. And it was clearly the correct determination based mostly on what we’ve witnessed right here tonight.”
Producer Phaedra Benford additionally revealed that a number of networks and streaming platforms have proven a powerful curiosity within the venture and that the manufacturing staff is hoping to safe a distribution deal for the sequence within the close to future.
The occasion was held as a charity fundraiser for The BAM MOMS Membership, a Jamaica-based charitable group geared in direction of offering prenatal training for pregnant girls of their fourth to seventh month of being pregnant.
