About the film

“I met Bob Marley a couple of times. Bankie’s kind of the Eastern Caribbean version of that to me.” – Jimmy Buffett

Bankie Banx: King of the Dune chronicles the life of the Anguillian singer-songwriter known by many as “the Bob Dylan of the Caribbean.” Growing up on a remote island, young Bankie made his first guitar and soaked up everything from British Top 40 and folk to Rastafarianism and the Pan-Africanism of Walter Rodney. In 1978 he released his genre-defying first album, and his breakout hit “Prince of Darkness” put both Bankie and Anguilla on the map.

After a decade of touring and battling industry executives determined to pigeonhole his sound, Bankie returned to Anguilla and created the Moonsplash music festival and the Dune Preserve – a “treehouse on the beach” crafted from driftwood and repurposed objects where Bankie presides as de facto king. Musicians and audiences must now come to him. Bankie continues to make music and (mostly) good trouble completely on his own terms.