Trevor Rhone and colleague

Trevor Rhone and colleague

Cork Film Festival, Trevor Rhone, Jamaica

This is a black and white photo of the Jamaican director Trevor Rhone in conversation with an unidentified delegate at a festival function. Rhone, wearing a light-coloured polo neck jumper under a white suit, is standing while talking to a young lady dressed in a dark-coloured satin dress with ruffles at the sleeves. She is seated and looks up at Rhone as he speaks, gesticulating with his right hand and holding a drink in his left. Behind them the room is busy with guests both seated and standing.

The photo is undated but other photos of Trevor Rhone in the archive are variously dated 1972 and 1975 and we might put this image at 1975 given its similarity to another archive image. Rhone directed successful movies in both 1972 and 1975. He co-wrote the successful film The Harder They Come (1972) with Perry Henzell which won his first award for best-edited film in Cork that year. He later made Smile Orange (1975) based on an earlier play of his and, while it didn’t have the same impact as his earlier work, it was well received in the Caribbean and Jamaica. It went on to win a gold medal at the Cork Film Festival in 1975. His later filmography includes Milk and Honey (Glen Salzman, Rebecca Yates, 1988) and the Cannes Film Festival ‘favourite’ award winning One Love (Trevor Rhone, 2003), starring the son of Bob Marley – the reggae and hip-hop artist Ky-Mani Marley.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Bateman Photography

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

Bateman Photography

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TIFF
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English, eng

Cork, Ireland

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194 x 242mm