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Released
2002 · FILM

Shottas

Friendship, loyalty & greed.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
95 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

The film is an urban drama set in Kingston, Jamaica, focusing on two friends, Biggs and Wayne, who grow up on the city’s dangerous streets. They adopt the “Shotta” lifestyle as a means of survival and begin engaging in criminal activity while still young. Later they relocate to the United States, where they pursue a ruthless ascent from poverty. Throughout their rise, they maintain a bond rooted in shottas loyalty while aggressively seeking control of the Jamaican underworld.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Nigel FlearyShot by Cliff CharlesScored by Stephen MarleyDesigned by Iyla Crash Kap

Box Office

2002 · Box office

Produced on a $200K budget

Production budget

$200K

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