Sailing Miss Sadie
Sailing Miss Sadie is a feature-length documentary film 1 directed by Johnny Lambe and starring TV presenter and Prince's Trust Ambassador Sadie Kaye and three persistent young offenders from The Prince's Trust. The film's screen-premiere was at the Gate Cinema in Notting Hill, London. The film's 2010 TV premiere was on the Community Channel (UK) and Sky Real Lives. It was also broadcast on the Discovery Channel. Sadie takes three persistent young offenders (Christopher Tahaney, Geoffrey Nganga & Sam Todd) on a Caribbean voyage of discovery to mentor them and change their perspectives on life. They sail to Venezuela and visit inmates inside anarchic El Rodeo Jail 2 before joining the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Proyecto Alcatraz 3 which helps teenage gang members in Caracas to find direction to turn their lives around. The film airs on ITZON, a new online film channel, January 2011. It is being distributed through PatientZero Productions and is shortlisted for a "People's Choice" World Film Festival award 4. The film features music from The Peppermint Apes 5 and Mark Horwood 6 and was post-produced by Andrei D. Gomes Da Costa and Dominic Dandridge of Create4TV 7
Footnotes
[1] Media Trust 8 [2] El Rodeo Prison 9 [3] Proyecto Alcatraz 10 [4] Humanity Explored - World Film Festival 11 [5] Soundtrack by The Apes 12 [6] The Argus 13 [7] Create4TV 14
References
Sailing Miss Sadie shortlisted for 'The People's Choice' Award at Humanity Explored World Film Festival 15
The Community Channel - Sailing Miss Sadie TV Premiere Review 16
The Media Trust Presents 'Sailing Miss Sadie' 17
World News Network Archive Article on 'Sailing Miss Sadie' & Sadie Kaye 18
Greenhouse Media Investments - Sadie Kaye profile & 'Sailing Miss Sadie' Trailer 19
The Prince's Trust 20
PatientZero Productions - Website News featuring Sadie Kaye 21
ITZON TV 22
Proyecto Alcatraz 23
El Rodeo Prison Sky News Report 24
The Sun Newspaper Feature Article on 'Sailing Miss Sadie', 2010 25
Culture Unplugged - Profile of 'Sailing Miss Sadie' filmmaker Sadie Kaye 26
Sadie Kaye on her Management Site 27
News Feature - 'Sailing Miss Sadie' (2010) 28
Sadie Kaye visits Proyecto Alcatraz in Caracas, Venezuela, during filming of 'Sailing Miss Sadie' 29
News Feature on 'Sailing Miss Sadie' shooting inside El Rodeo Prison 30
News Article on El Rodeo Prison, Caracas 31