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PLAYWRIGHT GINGER KNIGHT HEADS TO THE BIG SCREEN!

   By Cecelia Campbell-Livingston— KNIGHT… eyeing a return to the big screen with his latest project– SINCE the late 1970s, Keith ‘Ginger’ Knight has been one of local theatre’s leading playwrights. But he says he always wanted to make movies. His 2005 comedy, Room For Rent, eventually became a movie, thanks to a contribution of $2 million from the government’s CHASE Fund. Knight is eyeing a return to the big screen with his latest project, Scammers, which looks at corporate embezzlement. “Scammers is topical now and I think would do well everywhere in Jamaica and abroad,” he said. Filmed in Kingston, Room For Rent starred Knight, Deon Silvera, Dean Martin and Ruth Knight-Jarrett. Silvera also starred in the theatre edition with Volier Johnson. While Knight is pleased it became a movie, he says it fell short of expectations. “I … Read entire article »

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