Bahamian star Dana Ferguson will present award at the WideScreen Award Show
Cable Bahamas is proud to announce that REV Star Dana Ferguson has been chosen as a presenter for the 2nd Annual WideScreen Film and Music Video Festival. The awards will be held this Easter Sunday, at the Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center in Hollywood, FL.
The festival is the brainchild of Bahamian entrepreneur Jarrod A. Knowles and aims to inspire the creation and distribution of art, while ultimately enhancing the creative mind. With over 60 countries participating, including Ireland, Paris, Italy, Ghana, Trinidad, Finland and The Bahamas, presenters and recipients alike will find themselves immersed in a world of glamour, talent, and pure fashion.
Filmmakers and artists will compete in the categories of Feature Narrative, Short Narrative, South Florida Community, and Latin Community: Best Director, Best Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Music Video, and Best Actor-just to name a few. Bahamian actress and trained barrister, Dana Ferguson will announce the winner for REV Best Actress in a Short Film.
"We are very pleased to be a sponsor of this event and to see that one of our own was chosen to participate in such a world-class event," Cable Bahamas VP of Marketing David Burrows said. "The WideScreen Award Show promises to be an experience unlike any other and Dana will do an excellent job representing both this company and our country."
This year's award show will be hosted by nutritionist and TV personality Jenny Patrizia, and will feature performances by Bahamian artist, Dru-Bones and award-winning recording artist King Nyne. Other celebrities in attendance will be actress Anna Talakkottur, legendary award-winning director David Winters, actor Carluka Suarez and Grammy Award-winning artist Marlow Rosado.
Cable Bahamas is the communications provider of choice and the first to offer triple play (voice, video, data) services in The Bahamas. In 2013, Cable Bahamas expanded its operations to Florida by acquiring four telecommunications providers and merged them into Summit Broadband, offering businesses and consumers a nearly 500-mile fibre-optic backbone connecting south Florida, west Florida and central Florida.
In The Bahamas, services are provided under the REV suite of products including REVOICE, REVON and REVTV, covering telephony, broadband Internet and cable TV respectively. The company has revolutionised every area of business: delivering REVOICE landline phone services at the lowest cost and with the most features in The Bahamas; REVON broadband Internet, which is the fastest in the nation; and, REVTV cable TV service, that includes more than 500 channels with over 100 in HD and thousands of hours of video on demand content. Cable Bahamas serves residential and business customers on 16 islands in The Bahamas. The company also created the Cable Bahamas Cares Foundation, which has awarded over $2 million to local Bahamian non-profit organisations since its inception. Summit Broadband, a telecommunications provider, offers phone, high-speed Internet, cable TV and data transport services to both commercial and residential customers throughout southwest Florida and central Florida. The company also offers dark fibre transport to enterprise and carrier customers. Summit Broadband now supplies uncompressed high-definition television and the fastest Internet service available, with speeds of 1,000 megabits per second (1 gigabit per second). For more information please visit the company web site at www.cablebahamas.com, follow on Twitter @cablebahamas or visit the company Facebook page at www.facebook.com/GetRevdUp.
