Trevor Rhone accepting an award from Peter Barry

Trevor Rhone accepting an award from Peter Barry

Cork Film Festival, Trevor Rhone, Peter Barry, Award

This is a black and white photo of the Jamaican director Trevor Rhone receiving an award from the Cork politician Peter Barry. Rhone, in a white jacket, is shaking hands with the formally dressed Barry, who leans towards Rhone with a smile on his face.

Trevor Rhone was a celebrated Jamaican playwright and filmmaker. He co-wrote the successful film The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell, 1972) with Perry Henzell. The Harder They Come is a gritty realist film much like the early neo-realist films of the Italian director Vittorio De Sica whom we also see in this archive. The Jamaican reggae singer Jimmy Cliff played the lead role in the film and is credited for introducing reggae music and Jamaican culture to global audiences. It was Jamaica’s first homegrown film and arguably its greatest. In Cork Rhone was awarded his first award for the best-edited film in 1972 for The Harder They Come before it travelled to Brixton’s Classic Cinema in London where Rhone had to hand out leaflets outside the cinema to woo an audience into its theatre. Soon after Rhone would achieve success and cult status in America. (David Katz, ‘Trevor Rhone obituary’, The Guardian, 23.09.2009; WW Norton, Dennis McLellan, Paddington and Warner, ‘The Emergence of Caribbean Feature Films’, Black Camera, Winter 2009, pp 91-108.)

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Bateman Photography

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1975

Bateman Photography

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TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1975
Cork, Ireland

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242 x 190mm