About Us

Spirit of 38 Productions is named after two pivotal events in Jamaican history. 1838 was the year slaves were given their full freedom through the British West Indies and 1938 was the year of the Labour Rebellion in Jamaica which set the country on its path to independence.

Richard Vaughan born in New York to Jamaican immigrants in 1980. Driven by a passion for his culture and determination to educate and tell stores that history often forgets.

Winner of the Madrid International Filmmaker Festival 2017 for Best Editing of a Documentary and the 2017 Van Gogh Award: Prodigy Auteur at the 2017 Amsterdam Film Festival for his second documentary Rolling Along: An Inline Movement.

Previous credits include The Word is Love: Jamaica's Michael Manley (2012), Rolling Along: An Inline Movement (2017), Four Years of Love: The Grenada Revolution (2021), The Price of Love: Cheddi Jagan (2024).

Thank you for your continued support,

Countering hegemony one film at a time,

Richard Audley Vaughan.  

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