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BELAFONTE TURNS CAMERAS ON HIMSELF: Actor/activist filming a documentary about his life.
*Harry Belafonte was in Jamaica last weekend finalizing arrangements to bring film cameras into town to shoot a documentary about his life.
"We started filming a year ago," Belafonte told the Jamaican Observer. "I will be back in Jamaica in the latter part of this year to shoot footage on my childhood days."
Belafonte, 79, was born in New York to Jamaican parents. He and his family returned to the island when he was a year old. He would spend the next 11 years there before returning to the U.S. at age 12.
The documentary will include footage of Belafonte visiting his childhood home in Brown's Town, St Ann and many of the other places that hold significance for him.
"I will just be going to where I grew up; some of the houses I grew up in, Wolmer's school, the Half-Way-Tree school and the Morris Knibb school," he told the Observer.
Known for such tunes as “Banana Boat Song,” “Matilda” and “Island In The Sun,” Belafonte said he was producing the as-yet-untitled documentary, planned as a 12-hour mini-series. He has already fielded offers of interest from the BBC and HBO for distribution rights.
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