One Off Productions

14/09/2024

Thank you Jael Joseph & Black Island Girl for this in-depth feature on Uncivilzed's Streaming Release + taking the film to Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland! 🙏🏾 Super appreciated! And yes Uncivilized is now on Amazon Prime & Apple TV😁

Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm, struck Dominica during Lees’ time in the forest, leaving the island devastated. Emerging from the wilderness the day after the hurricane, Lees was confronted with a landscape so transformed that it was almost unrecognizable.

26/07/2024

Our location scout photos almost ended up looking like real estate pics. Cool getting to explore the Intercontinental inside and out especially that presidential suite.

16/07/2024

Some more frames from recent work we did for CARPHA (The Caribbean Public Health Agency).

We help NGO’s and organizations to translate the important work they do into visual media, to educate the public, to report to donors, and to help them get funding to continue the important work.

12/07/2024

We stumbled across these old posters of Triple Kay, WCK and Midnight Groover’s at Spanny’s Bar, a place that Kromanti’s founder Dani realized she’d been to many years ago with her grandfather.

It’s a reminder that every day, we're weaving history - one day our kids will look back at what we created now, in the 2020s, and measure us by.

It reminds us how vital it is to craft a meaningful legacy.

11/07/2024

Sipping local bush rum, bar-hopping in a van, and taking refreshing stops at waterfalls and hot springs - could there be a more iconic Dominican adventure? 🍹🚐🌊

We recently went on an unforgettable bush rum tour with . This unique Caribbean-UK rum wonderfully deviates from the norm, yet stays true to its Caribbean essence, infusing their spirit with the rich flavors of tamarind.

04/08/2023

be gentle with the
way you're learning to
hold your own heart

💃🏽 Chrissie Piper & Nicole Morson for ib designs

👩🏾‍🎨Nicole Morson
💄Queen II Queen
Butterflies Rising

26/07/2023

A fav from recent shoot with Chrissie Piper for ib designs

👩🏾‍🎨Nicole Morson
💃🏽 Chrissie Piper
💄 Queen II Queen

20/07/2023

A few snapshots of Queen Adicia 👑 Adicia Burton from our shoot with St. Croix jewelry line ib designs

👩🏾‍🎨Nicole Morson
💃🏾 Adicia Burton
👗 Sharon Tanner

Special thanks to the
📍Kalinago Teritory

05/07/2023

Both this project and this film required international collaboration. Sixty geotagged samples of cocoa were gathered from around Dominica and sent to the Cocoa Research Center in Trinidad. In the images above, taken by our Trinidadian DP Juliette McCawley, Dr. Lambert Motilal uses a state of the art DNA fingerprinting system to genetically identify the plants. Out of the sixty samples sent, more than fifty were completely unique from the existing six thousand profiles in their system and not to mention many of them were fine flavour! These are exciting findings for Dominica's cocoa industry.

Watch the full film here!
https://youtu.be/844JSR5csgA

Images by Juliette McCawley
In partnership with Caribbean Agricultural Network United Nations Development Programme - UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme Dominica Cocoa Research Centre
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22/06/2023

To better tell the story of cocoa, we brought on Dominican artist and animator Jenae Bell to help break down how the cocoa family tree worked and show the different flavour profiles cocoa can have. Her animation illustrates the potential value of Dominica’s fine flavour cocoa. With fine flavour cocoa valued at upwards of $10,000USD per tonne, could this be an untapped goldmine for Dominica?

Let’s not forget, paired with the animations, is that smooth narration provided by none other than Mr. Raymond Lawrence.
Watch full film here: https://youtu.be/844JSR5csgA

Animation by Jenae Bell
Directed by Michael Lees
In partnership with Caribbean Agricultural Network United Nations Development Programme - UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme Dominica
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16/06/2023

The sisters of EZ Side Bakery make an assortment of cassava products, carrying on the legacy of their late grandfather Mr. Francis, said to be one of the first pioneers for cassava processing in Dominica. The trio started EZ Side Bakery where they sell over 15+ different cassava products. Their factory is located in The Kalinago Territory where they process up to 1000 lbs of cassava root a week!

Check out the full doc on Forgotten Lands Art YouTube channel below! https://youtu.be/ywqnUR8_rW0

Directed by Michael Lees
DP & Editor Norris Francois Jr.
In collaboration with Forgotten Lands Art & Interconnect Life

08/06/2023

One Off Productions is proud to present the full version of the cassava documentary, Indigenous Provisions, created alongside Interconnect Life for Forgotten Lands Art (link in bio). The focus of this film was to highlight how we as a people have seen cassava evolve over the years. In the past, cassava was used traditionally to make farine, and more recently cassava bread. In present times, it has seen many contemporary innovations such as cassava pizza, muffins, cassava flour, and 'conkie', made of cassava, sugar, ginger and other natural ingredients. What's in store for cassava in the future? And what cassava products would you like to see?

Follow this link to view on YouTube : https://youtu.be/ywqnUR8_rW0 !

Directed by Michael Lees
DP & Editor Norris Francois Jr.
In collaboration with Forgotten Lands Art & Interconnect Life