As one of Jamaica’s most globally respected cultural ambassadors, Maxine Walters has lived and loved her passion as a producer of scores of international music, film and photography projects shot in Jamaica, and this Sunday on Television Jamaica (TVJ), the influential creative divulges behind-the-scenes stories with Deiwght Peters on his popular talk show. 

Honoured by the Jamaican Government in 2017 with an Order of Distinction for her in-demand talent which has been called upon for big-budget, Jamaican-filmed motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams, the Kingston-born Walters has also been integrally involved in the production of renowned music videos fronted by Lauryn Hill, Damian Marley, Wyclef Jean, Lorde and Beenie Man, and has exclusively produced most all of the international commercials for track legend Usain Bolt in Jamaica. 

“Knowing Maxine is a definitive go-to name on speed-dial for those in the know on the world stage who want to use Jamaica as a visual backdrop, she was always on my shortlist of must-interview guests this season,” revealed Peters, who has enjoyed a decades-long friendship and work association with Walters that have included locally shot editorials for the world’s fashion bible Vogue that starred SAINT supermodel Tami Willlams. 

Most recently, Walters collaborated with SAINT International for the Summer 2021 collection for celebrated English-Jamaican fashion designer Wales Bonner and iconic German athletic wear brand Adidas that was officially launched on March 26 as a global advertising campaign that featured a quartet of SAINT models: Selah McHail, Aakesh Henderson, Winston Lawrence and Tash OGeare.

“Walters was instrumental in scouting locations in Portland, St Catherine and St Andrew and facilitating the overseas team from London working with local creatives seamlessly for the well-received Wales Bonner x Adidas project,” Peters said. 

In addition to her full-time day job as a producer, the talk show host revealed that Walters will also discuss her extensive collection of ‘outsider art’ and her previous professional lives as a music festival promoter, a visiting professor in Cuba and Barbados and being part of the first Air Jamaica flight that ever left the ground. 

Also on the guest-list for Sunday’s show is the exciting new Jamaican music group Equiknoxx that has caught the ear of music tastemakers abroad that are taken with their mixture of dancehall sounds with electronic beats. The eclectic five-person collective comprising Gavsborg, Bobby Blackbird, Shanique Mari, Time Cow and Kemikal talk artistic inspiration and career goals with their insightful sit-down with Peters. Their creative influences, ambitions and perspectives all revealed in what Peters called ‘the interview with Jamaica’s coolest new musical groups.

The Glamour Zone unveils some of the best runway moments of Saint (and Jamaica’s top) Models around the world over the market leading agency’s twenty one ground-breaking years in the fashion industry.

Rolling with Deiwght Peters airs exclusively on TVJ on Sundays at 4:00 p.m. and repeats Wednesdays at 1:05 p.m.