Langston Hughes African American Film Festival 2008

Seattle Premiere - Jah Bull and Baboo are two Rastafarians that sell LP records in a colourful old car through the countryside towns of Jamaica. By chance their favourite and well known radio broadcaster, Farmer Roots, hitches a ride with them in an emergency while trying to take his sick girlfriend to the hospital. Jah Bull and Baboo don't believe in western medicine because of their Rastafarian beliefs and 'convince' their passengers to seek the help from the bush doctor Bongo-Hu. Getting to the doctor turns out to be much more difficult than they expected and all kinds of adventures happen along the way… Born in 1978, Silvestre Jacobi is an Argentinian director with an abiding interest in music who has previously worked in the documentary medium. He graduated as a lawyer in 2002 and then studied cinematography in New York. In 2001 he teamed up with Hassen Balut to make the highly acclaimed "Candombe." "Roots Time" is his first feature and won the Best Film Award at the 2006 Portobello Film Festival