New Kingston introduces a new slate of multi-form films/TV, podcasts, immersive theater, experiential V.R. stories, and social impact stories that explore memory, migration, and survival.
Born from a “culture of change” philosophy that prioritizes community health and wellness, our inaugural narratives allow overlooked or underrepresented communities to see themselves in innovative experiences that offer new perspectives on culture and legacy.
Upcoming Films
Finding Harlem: The Savoy
Period Drama. Dark Musical Comedy.
15-20 mins.
Logline: Inspired by “The Harlem Dancer”, McKay’s unnamed dancer is a relentless diva who lures her elusive lover into a high-stakes dance contest forcing them to confront their fractured bond and rediscover a broken love on the Savoy dancefloor.
Scotch Bonnet
Coming of Age Feature. Dramedy.
90-100 mins.
Logline: A heartbroken singer-turned-nurse embarks on a healing journey, confronting a tragic love story and her family's multi-generational curse of loss and deferred dreams.
Upcoming TV Series
For The Girls They Silenced
Anthology Crime Drama Series.
Black Comedy.
30 - 40 mins. 7 Eps.
Logline: When death silences her to purgatory waters, a 12-year-old genius and her alchemist ancestor weave Discreet Mathematics with the power of Jamaican mysticism to launch a tidal wave of justice.
Come Again
Limited Series/Miniseries.
Psychological Thriller. Crime Dramedy.
60 mins. 4 Episodes.
Logline: A death wish propels a canceled gay veteran-turned-star toward an elusive truth he’s chased for decades— only to find that some truths demand a deadly price.
Upcoming Audio Series
The Radicals
Podcast/Audio Anthology Series.
Political Thriller. Drama. Black Comedy.
20-25 mins. 10 eps.
Logline: Inspired by real events, this multi-protagonist anthology fiction unearths civil rights radicals' movements after JFK’s assassination, launching a gripping sonic thriller told through intercepted FBI surveillance tapes.
Scotch Bonnet
Coming of Age Dramedy.
90-100 mins.
Logline: A heartbroken singer-turned-nurse embarks on a healing journey, confronting a tragic love story and her family's multi-generational curse of loss and deferred dreams.
Inaugural Film Development Labs
MuXical PoetiX
Excerpts from this inaugural Audio-Book launch a series of Art-House films and multi-form immersive vignettes that use poetry, music, and movement to deconstruct themes of memory, migration, and survival.
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Experimental Micro-Shorts
Dark Musical Comedy.
“Day Oh” interweaves the multi-generational curse of British Caribbean Identity and migration through chronicles of a Jamaican Preacher, his Prodigal Rasta Son, and the estranged Gay Grandson they’ve never met. -
Experimental Micro-Shorts.
Dark Musical Comedy.
Popular folk music and dance from Colonial Jamaica unravel the deaths of three deaths in the present while Una Marson’s breakdown confronts the poetic legacy of being silenced in the past. -
Experimental Micro-Short.
Dark Musical Comedy.
Inspired by “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay, six contemporary Afro-Diasporic Identities unfold stories of surviving life itself in a series of cinematic vignettes set in Harlem.
Finding Harlem: The Savoy
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Inspired by McKay’s “The Harlem Dancer”, this film centers both McKay & The Savoy Ballroom as forgotten Harlem Renaissance icons. The film development focuses on the big band jazz music and the Lindy Hop dance moves of the era.
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Moving
Beyond the confines of the film, to develop a Virtual Reality experience that places our audience in the frenzy of our reimagined Battle of the Bands and the Lindy Hop Dance contest in the film’s reimagined Savoy Ballroom.
