LENNIE LITTLE - WHITE
(Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Lyricist, Editor)

Children of Babylon reflects Lennie’s thoughts on the society today. After high school, he flirted with the idea of doing professional theatre. He floated through different jobs while writing, producing and directiing plays.
   

In 1966, the film bug hit him when he was  one of the doubles for American actor Jim Brown who was starring in a film made in Jamaica called THE MERCENARIES.
     
He first wrote and directed films for the Jamaican Information Service. After migrating to Canada, he studied at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto, before going to graduate school at Northwestern University in Chicago, gaining a Master of Arts degree in Film. Since then he has worked in all areas of communications in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean.

Lennie’s many credits include directing the first documentary on Blacks in Canada in a film called BORN BLACK. A film about the University of the West Indies-BEGINNINGS, won an award at the U.S.S.R.’s Tasknet Film Festival.

His productions include numerous commercials and documentaries. His most recent work is a full-length documentary on reggae called SOUNDS OF AN ERA. Children of Babylon is Lennie’s first theatrical movie production. While he has dabbled in poetry, this was his first real effort in writing lyrics for songs.
   

FRANKLYN  "CHAPPIE" ST. JUSTE  (Director of Photography)

"Chappie" as he is popularly known has spent more than the last half of his life in Jamaica. Before that he worked in St. Lucia and his birthplace, Trinidad.

Probably the most experienced cinematographer working in the Caribbean today, Chappie has shot everything including news, commercials, documentaries and features. 
   

One of his most notable achievements is his photography of a signigicant portion of Perry Henzell’s THE HARDER THEY COME with Jimmy Cliff.

Today, he functions not only as cinematographer, but also as a director in his own right, producing several documentaries. Chappie got his first exposure to film through his father while growing up in Trinidad. He continues the tradition by passing on his knowledge to one of his sons, Brian, who was his first assistant during the shooting of Children of Babylon.
   

HAROLD BUTLER  (Music)

When you come from a family with a long string of good musicians ahead of you, it can be intimidating. This has not frightened young Harold who has not yet reached his twenty-fifth birthday.

After seeing the edited film four of five times, he wrote the music in a week and conducted the musicians and singers to finish the complete soundtrack in six weeks. Harold succeeded in drawing on the rich musical heritage of Jamaica to paint a musical picture that few will forget.

This is his first attempt at scoring for a film. It also marks a new combination since the lyrics were written by the film’s director. - Lennie Little-White.

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