Florida Premiere. This infectious music and dance-filled documentary tells the story of young Jamaican immigrants across Brooklyn coming of age during the 80s and 90s and were drawn to dancehall music to keep connected to life back home. Their preservation of key elements of culture through deejays, sound systems, and dancing in New York’s seedy underground provides the unique atmosphere for an influential movement that was bubbling up in the shadow of hip hop. Shot in New York City and Kingston, Jamaica under the guidance of executive producer Shaggy, and complemented by the safeguarded VHS tapes from notorious videomen of the times, Bad Like Brooklyn Dancehall immerses us into the remarkable rise of the most under-acknowledged music genre – and the accompanying social scene – and its ever-present influence on a younger generation of Caribbean-Americans.
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