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Caribbean Heritage Tribute to….
Jamaican born filmmaker
PERRY HENZELL
1936-2006
Join us for this special screening of
"THE HARDER THEY COME"
Plus "The Making of, The Harder They Come"
Mr. Henzell was the director, producer and co-writer of Jamaica’s first feature film, The Harder They Come, which was released in 1972. During the 1980s, he worked on numerous screenplays for other people and directed a full-scale musical on the life of Marcus Garvey. Power Game, his first novel was the political thriller Power Game, which was published in 1982. This second novel, Cane, a historical drama, was published in 2003.
About the film
The full-length feature shot in Jamaica with a fully Jamaican cast, centred on the realities of Jamaican island life. It adapted the story of Ivanhoe Martin, a notorious, real-life Jamaican criminal killed by police in 1948, to make broader points about the harsh realities facing migrants from the countryside in the island's dehumanising capital, taking in the exploitation of the music industry and the illicit lure of the marijuana trade along the way. Jimmy Cliff's sympathetic portrayal of the lead character - renamed Ivan O Martin - showed a determined character whose pride would not allow him to be beaten down, but whose desperation led to an inevitably gory demise
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