Faizon Hanging In Belize

Thank you brother Faizon and thank you Breakthrough Stars for bringing the comedians down to Belize, we had a blast! See you in September, Belize Comedy Tour.

Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

Belize Film Festival

MDY Program For The BIFF Weekend

Take a look at what the BIFF has to offer. July 14th - July 19th 2011

Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

Belize Comedy Show Tickets Are On Sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They have finally arrived, the tickets that we have all been waiting for, they came here special delivery for you Belize. Get ready to break your funny bone in 2, Gary Owen, Rodney Perry, Tony Roberts & Damon Williams are coming here to make you laugh Belize. They choose Belize to do this special show for their live DVD taping of this comedy "bruk down". Come and open the Belize International Film Festival in style. This event is brought to by Breakthrough Stars and Triumphant Pictures in association with I-Rey Productions and the Belize Film Festival. Tickets are available at Jule"s Boutique on 69 Albert Street and The Bliss Auditorium in Downtown Belize City. For more information visit www.belizefilmfestival.com or call 011-501.207.0859 if inside the country of Belize 207.0859 Thank you for your support.


Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

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Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

Rodney Perry At The Bliss In Belize City. July 14th 2011

The Bliss Institute for Performing Arts is holding a laugh fest on Thursday July 14th, 2011, Rodney Perry and a group of International Comedians will be coming to Belize to entertain the Belizean public. There will be 2 shows 7pm & 9pm doors will open at 6:30 sharp. Tickets will be available at Jules Boutique at 69 Albert Street 207-0859. Ticket prices are $40.00 in advance. Other Comedians on the shows roster is Gary Owen, Tony Roberts & Damon Williams. There is also a surprise for one local comedian who, has been chosen to perform with this international heavy weights of the comedy world. This comedy extravaganza is being brought to you by Breakthrough Star and Triumphant Pictures. www.belizefilmfestival.com


Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

Happy Father's Day To All The Fathers & Father Figures Out There.

A Father's Day wish! Yesterday I watch my daughter graduate from Elementary/Primary School, today my wife and I took her to orientation for High School, Wow! I watched her and her mother sit through hours of speeches from future teachers and current students at Saint Catherine's Academy in Belize City, tell the people in audience about what to expect in the upcoming school year. The funny thing about all this is that I actually saw my daughter get older as we were sitting there, I listened to the talk from the Vice Principal and how she said that mommy and daddy are no longer responsible for your homework getting done, mommy and daddy are no longer responsible for getting you to school on time, I said my gosh my little girl is becoming a young lady. Fathers I put this request out to you today that at least once a week you do something with your little girl and if you have a little boy spend as much time as possible with him before they become to old and they don't want you around unless it's to put gas in the car or give them some money to go out with their friends. As a man I enjoy working hard and trying to provide for my family, but I am also seeing that it's important to have time for them and to be there for the things that they say are important to them. Father's Day is important day and I'm glad that world set aside a special day for all the fathers, I want to salute my fellow fathers and parents, for doing this tough job that we call parenting, it's definitely something that should be with a partner. I lost my father about 10 years ago and it still seems like only yesterday, I still remember the last time I saw him leave the house when the ambulance came for him early that morning and at the hospital later that day, it was Oct. 30 2002 I was back in California for my parents anniversary and mother's birthday and a few days after we celebrated those 2 events my father left us and all I had were the memories. I was very fortunate because my father always made the time for me and my mother regardless of how tough his workday was he always found time for me. My dad seemed always to be there, no matter what, and in my time of failure as a father I, use that as a barometer to put me back on track. Today was a special day because being at orientation with my daughter, it reminded me of what my father would have done, he was there with us in spirit and I thank God for that. Happy Father's Day

Nigel Miguel

Rodney Perry To Perform In Belize. July 14th 2011

Rodney Perry & friends are set to open the Belize International Film Festival with a comedy night extravaganza. On Thursday July 14th 2011 at The Bliss Performing Arts Center, Belize City will be the comedy center of the Caribbean. 4 talented comedians led by BET's own Mr. Rodney Perry, of The Monique Show will be in Belize City for 1 night doing 2 shows 7pm & 9pm at The Bliss. The Comedy Show is part of NICH and The Belize Film Festival commitment to bring first rate entertainment to Belizeans. The comedy show is being produced by Breakthrough Stars & Triumphant Pictures which will air the show on US TV at a later date. Breakthrough Star has made a commitment to promote local Belizean talent through a series of contest which will start with a local Belizean Comedian getting their shot at being on stage with Mr. Perry to perform a set of jokes. The comedy show will run for 90 minutes with free giveaways to the live audience in attendance. Get ready Belize for a night full of excitement and laughter. Who Knows, You Might Get Discovered!


Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

Bruins In The World

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Former Bruins Nigel Miguel & Mitchell Butler attend the Doha Qatar Summit, where they spoke on the business of Sports & Entertainment and how the 2 entities can empower a certain region of the world. Mitchell Butler will attend the 2011 Belize International Film Festival in July to be on a panel of sports & athletics being held at the same time of the festival. For more information on the festival please visit http://belizefilmfestival.com/


NPM
Belize Film Commissioner.

The Belize Film Festival Is Back

Guess who's coming to Belize on July 14th 2011 to open the 6th Annual Belize Film Festival? It's a special night for Belize, it's the return of Gary Owen and he's bringing a few of his close friends. Rodney Perry from The Monique Show, Damon Williams and my personal favorite Mr. Tony Roberts, Belize we are in for a treat. All of this is made possible through Breakthrough Star, a new partner of the Belize Film Festival. The show is being held at the Bliss Preforming Arts Center, and will be televised back in the US at a later date. So Belizeans be on the lookout for these guys as they drop down to visit the Jewel. Oh there's also another surprise, there will be a touch of the local flavor in the comedians as well. www,belizefilmfestival.com

Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

Belize Film Commissioner Works With Angela Simmons

There's a bright young star in the making and she goes by the name of Angela Simmons, yes folks, Reverend Run's Daughter. I had the distinct pleasure of working with this young lady on the filming of a TV Pilot. I was quite impressed with her professionalism and her acting ability. She may come from The Royal Family of Rap, but she has quite a future in front of the camera as well. Look out Belize, rumor has it that the show may just have an episode that takes place in Belize. Who knows we may be seeing Angela & Vanessa down here in the country real soon.



Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

A Native View Mount Vernon Filmmaker Travels Glory Road

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The Belize Film Commissioner & The Belize Film Commission would like to congratulate Writer/Director Jerald Hoover on his film project 4 Square Miles To Glory.


Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

BELIZE 10th Of September Celebration! Where Does The Music Come From?

Tucked into the Caribbean coast of Central America between Mexico's southern Yucatan region and Guatemala, Belize (formerly British Honduras) gained independence from Great Britain in 1981. Shortly after British forces wrested Jamaica from Spanish control in 1655, a motley array of English entrepreneurs and pirates began to settle Belize, drawn by the economic potential of the region's dyewoods and mahogany timber stands. In an otherwise Spanish-speaking Central America, Belize quickly became an ethnically diverse settlement, home to Creoles (of mixed African, European and Central American descent), African-Amerindian Garifuna, Mestizos (of mixed Mayan, Mexican and Central American heritage) and several lowland Maya groups.

Almost nothing is known of the colony's early musical history, but enslaved Africans certainly brought their expressive traditions to the logging camps set up in the interior beginning in the 1720s. The first written accounts of African drumming date to the early 19th century, as white English residents complained of gatherings in the outskirts of the capital, where slaves and freedmen congregated to dance, drum and sing through the night. Fearing that the drums served to communicate plans for slave uprisings (a recurrent feature of pre-emancipation Belize), colonial authorities unsuccessfully outlawed the activity, which spilled over into the annual Christmas revelry when slaves returned to Belize City from their logging tasks.

Oral tradition assigns the origins of brukdown and boom-and-chime music to the Belize timber camps. The music combines ribald Creole-language vocals, accordion, guitar and hand percussion in a sonic blend recalling Jamaican mento and early Louisiana zydeco. Likewise, Garifuna residents who had never been enslaved sustained their singing, drumming and dancing traditions. In the early 1980s, punta rock, a creation commonly attributed to Belizean Garifuna musician, composer and painter Delvin "Pen" Cayaetano, added the amplified guitar to the Garifuna rhythm ensemble. Today, Belizeans see punta rock's popularity throughout Central America as a positive reflection of the nation's unique identity in the region.

British police orchestras and bands, reinforced by elite classical-music education, introduced brass, woodwinds and piano to Belize. The police ensembles also incorporated accordion, guitar and banjo, the latter showing patent West African roots. Maya and Mestizo string-band music combines European guitar and violin with indigenous harps, whistles, shakers and frame-drum percussion, together with the marimba, which traces its genesis to the West African balafon. Maya musicians still fashion their own marimbas and harps from Belizean hardwoods, stringing the latter with thick nylon fishing line. Typically played on religious holidays and at community festivals, exclusively by men, as in Guatemala and southern Mexico, Belizean Maya music is unadorned, but it possesses a certain hypnotic quality reflected in the subdued mixed dancing it often accompanies.

Notable Garifuna artists include Junie Aranda, Jursino Cayetano, Pen Cayetano, Lugua Centeno, Mohobub Flores, Dale Guzman, Adrian Martínez, Paul Nabor, Andy Palacio and Gabaga Williams. Creole artists include Brad Pattico, Wilfred Peters and Leroy Young "The Grandmaster" (the country's dub-poet laureate). The only recorded indigenous musician is Kekchi Maya harpist Florencio Mess.

—Michael Stone

Filming Locations In Belize

Check out the new ad that will run in the UCLA Basketball home game programs this season. Go Bruins & Film Belize!


Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.

Maya Air September Celebration Specials, See The Belize River From The Air

The Belize River, what a glorious site to see, the main vein that runs through the country of Belize. The life line to early settlers of our beautiful jewel. My father in law would to tell me stories of the river and how they would travel for days to make it from St. Paul to Belize City. During the month of September Maya Air had a special to San Pedro and Dangriga from Belize City for $39.00 Belizean Dollars, that's $19.50 to those from the USA. For $19.50 you could see one of the most breathtaking rivers of the Western Hemisphere from an aerial view. Life is funny sometimes, the special rate is for the arrival to your destination. As in life, you should enjoy the journey because if you're not careful you may miss the best part of the trip. Film Belize people and enjoy the unspoiled beauty.



Nigel P. Miguel
B.F.C.