Jamaican parties ” a big hit” in New York, budding export of DVD’s.

“I understand why it’s appealing,” said Kim-Marie Spence, the film commissioner of Jamaica Promotions Corporation, a government agency, who added that the success of party videos had influenced more traditional moviemaking in the country. “Especially in the States now, for the diaspora, it might be familiar in much a way like a movie from home — you are seeing reflections of yourself on the screen.”

Tucked into sleeves with grainy photos of party scenes, the party DVDs cost about $5 apiece and sell briskly in bodegas, reggae shops and street-side folding tables across Caribbean enclaves like Jamaica, Queens, and others in Brooklyn and the Bronx. They are often sold person to person by amateur dealers who go back to the homeland for a visit and return with a suitcase of fresh parties.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/nyregion/direct-to-dvd-house-parties-for-homesick-jamaicans.html?ref=jamaica&_r=0