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=Hycam Entertainment=

Hycam Entertainment LLC is an independent film and television company with head offices in Byahaut and Trouvaille, Rogatia. It was founded in the early 1960s by Louis Harlgen, the founder and original owner of Trouvaille's Antilles Cinema.

Since 1964's Ville des Coupes, the company has been responsible for producing and releasing all of Rogatia's feature film output, which consists of 33 projects as of 2009.

In the West Indies, Hycam is best known as a distributor of independent and foreign fare, both on television and the big screen. Locally, its competitors are Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, UIP Rogatia, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (along with recently-formed subsidiary Miramax Releasing), and Sony Pictures.

From 1972 until 1994, Hycam was Rogatia's sole distributor of films and TV shows from Walt Disney Productions (later Walt Disney Pictures and Television) and Buena Vista Distribution.

The company was Rogatia's first to break into the home video market (in February 1982), and also invested in SelectaVision and Laserdisc titles early on. By April 2002, it phased out the VHS format in favour of rapidly-expanding DVD sales. It released its first Blu-Ray title, a newly-remastered version of Ville des Coupes, on February 10, 2009.

According to official company pamphlets, the name is derived from "Hi, Camille!", which founder Harlgen always used to say to his aunt, a grocery store clerk, as a child.

Selected productions

 * Ville des Coupes (1964)
 * Young Girl (1970)
 * The Grand Delight (1972)
 * Sunny (1978)
 * Zuma (1982)
 * Covers (1986)
 * Dreamtime (1987)
 * Three Cheers for Sweet Glory! (1988)
 * Esplanade (1991)
 * Seven Eight Nine Ten (2000)
 * Cool Schooled (2005)
 * Timeframe (2008)
 * Luko (2008)
 * Hollyann (2009)
 * A38 (2010)
 * Iconic/Ironic (2011)

=TJE Studios=

TJE Studios is an animation, TV production and visual effects company located in Weymouth, Rogatia. Its origins go back as far as 1964, when seven of the original core members did a ten-second logo bumper for the newly-established ZHCP-TV.

TJE is most notable for its library of over 2,500 music videos (since early 1976), and its latter-day involvement in the production of Henrick Marhamm's 2008 animated blockbuster Luko.

During the early 2000s, seven hundred TJE crew members worked on a retouched version of Happy, the Littlest Bunny, a GoodTimes/Jetlag production from 1994. A workprint version was completed in May 2004, and shown at a theatre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, financial problems with GoodTimes (the original rights holder), and its acquisition by Gaiam shortly after going bankrupt, caused the project to be shelved until much recently. Because of this, the film (now retitled Happy: A Rabbit on the Run) will be released across the Caribbean by Gaiam on May 13, 2011.

=Timeline of film distributors in Rogatia=