{"id":5288,"date":"2023-01-27T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2023-01-27T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T09:29:53","slug":"fernando-edwards-rooted-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5288","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Edwards Rooted in Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u2018Rooted Betrayal\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a psychological thriller starring Jamaican Fernando Edwards, debuts March 25 on Amazon Prime and Tubi. Edwards is also the 30-minute film\u2019s director and producer.<\/p>\n<p>It is Edwards\u2019 biggest project since arriving in Hollywood 10 years ago with minimal experience or knowledge of the film industry. He stars as Andre alongside Suely Ramos, Daniel Gilfillian and Marissa Ford.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards, who is from Portmore in St. Catherine parish, said it took him two years to complete <strong><em>\u2018Rooted Betrayal\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which he also funded. He has plans for two other projects this year \u2014 a six-episode series based on <strong><em>\u2018Rooted Betrayal\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and a potential television series called <strong><em>\u2018Domino Effect\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which has a Jamaican flavor.<\/p>\n<p>He is relieved the film will finally be shown.\u00a0 \u201cIt is an amazing feeling getting the project on screen. More amazing, is the information it takes and the work that goes into understanding all the resources to get it on the screen and all its requirements,\u201d Edwards explained.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from Missouri Baptist University where he earned a degree in business management, Edwards headed to the United States West Coast. Intrigue led him to Tinsel Town.\u00a0 \u201cFilmmaking has always been a vision of mine. Now, is it an easy industry to break in? Being a working actor is infinitely more difficult and being a successful working actor is harder than that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since his move to Los Angeles, Edwards has had roles in the HBO drama <strong><em>\u2018Ballers\u2019<\/em><\/strong> as well as the 2020 comedy, <strong><em>\u2018She Ball\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which starred Nick Cannon, Cedric The Entertainer and Chris Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Rooted Betrayal\u2019, a psychological thriller starring Jamaican Fernando Edwards, debuts March 25 on Amazon Prime and Tubi. Edwards is also the 30-minute film\u2019s director and producer. It is Edwards\u2019 biggest project since arriving in Hollywood 10 years ago with minimal experience or knowledge of the film industry. He stars as Andre alongside Suely Ramos, Daniel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}