Named after their family parrot, Jakes was built by creative visionary and radical spirit, Sally Henzell..
THE object of the following pages is to bring to light many documents which have preserved interesting particulars relating to the History.
Perry Henzell
Jamaican filmmaker (1936–2006)
Perry Henzell (7 March 1936 – 30 November 2006) was a Jamaican director. He directed the first Jamaican feature film, The Harder They Come (1972), co-written by Trevor D.
Rhone and starring Jimmy Cliff.[1]
Life and career
Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenotglassblowers and an old English family who had made their fortune growing sugar cane on Antigua,[2] was born in Annotto Bay, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica,[3] and grew up on the Caymanas sugar-cane estate near Kingston.[4] He was sent to Shrewsbury School in the United Kingdom at the age of 14 and later attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1953 and 1954.[5] He then dropped out of this school, choosing instead to hitchhike around Europe.
He eventually got work as a stagehand for BBC television in London.[1] He returned in the 1950s to Jamaica, where he directed advertisements for some years un