Jamaican musical trailblazers made Toronto a world-class reggae hotspot. Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan’s anthology series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land premieres August 23 on nfb.ca. Featuring Johnny Osbourne, Nana McLean, Leroy Sibbles and more.

At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of Jamaica’s brightest stars left their homeland to relocate to Toronto. Now their stories and the musical community they helped build are celebrated in Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan’s captivating National Film Board of Canada (NFB) anthology series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land, premiering August 23 on nfb.ca and the NFB’s streaming platform for smart TVs.