11 Jan Award-Winning “Paradise Discovered” Docu-Series Now Streaming on NiteCap Media

St. Thomas, USVI – After a film screening tour and lecture series throughout North America and the Caribbean that began back in 2018, the award-winning “Paradise Discovered” docu-series is now streaming on NiteCap Media’s YouTube Network. The three-part series, produced by Virgin Islands filmmaker and renowned journalist Peter Bailey and based on his now infamous New York Times Op Ed “Has America Forgotten the Virgin Islands” – garnered worldwide acclaim and is crediting as a catalyst and trailblazer in developing local cinema in the Caribbean region. The series sheds light on the resilience of the islands survivors in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria while also focusing on the innovation required for the Virgin Islands and larger Caribbean to modernize while struggling to maintain their way of life.

Paradise Discovered: The Unbreakable Virgin Islanders film premiered on Tubi, Apple TV and other streaming giants in 2021, debuting as one of iTunes top 200 documentaries and is currently used in classes at Notre Dame, Stanford and the college at William & Mary to name a few. Public libraries in Toronto, New York City, Los Angeles and Singapore have also acquired the film. However, this is the first time the other two films in the series “The Anguilla Connection” and “The Unbreakable Virgin Islanders 2.0” are being releases for the first time. Bailey says bringing the series to NiteCap Media, which he founded in 2010 with the hugely popular “NiteCap” interview series brings his dream full circle given YouTube overwhelming dominance in the streaming marketplace. 

“Building an eco-system for our stories to be told visually has always been a goal of mines,” Bailey said. “We can no longer have our sense of self narrated by those not rooted in our home.”  

With more than 20,000 subscribers and 100,000 monthly views featuring interviews with figures like Rudy Giuliani, Janelle Monae and Mike Tyson, NiteCap Media YouTube Network’s latest offering of films further solidify’s NiteCap’s role in telling marginalized stories. Bailey’s most recent docu-series “Miami Kingpins: The Real Scarfaces” debuted on Amazon Prime’s top ten films and won for best documentary at Miami’s Urban Film Festival. Bailey directed and narrated the Rick Ross executive-produced series about the city’s counter- culture drug trade.

“We’re a people embodying self-reliance so taking ownership of the distribution of this work is in my DNA,” says Bailey. “I’m giving our region’s creatives a blueprint on how to now own the house in which their art lives.” 

Viewers can stream Paradise Discovered by becoming a member of the NiteCap Media Channel.  Visit Youtube.com/NiteCapMedia to access these award-winning films now.