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Perry Henzell (born 1936 in Port Maria, Jamaica) is most famous for being the director of the first Jamaican feature film, 1972's The Harder They Come
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Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenot glassblowers and an old English family who had made their fortune growing sugar on Antigua, grew up on the Caymanas sugar cane estate near Kingston and was sent to a boarding school in the United Kingdom at fourteen. However, he dropped out of this school, choosing instead to hitchhike around Europe. He eventually got work as a stagehand at the BBC.

He returned to Jamaica in the 1950s, where he directed advertisements for some years until he began work on The Harder They Come.

Henzell also shot some footage for what was planned as his next film, No Place Like Home, in Harder's aftermath, but that was lost in a fire. Fed up by this, and the lack of finance for further production, he went on to become a writer, publishing his first novel, Power Game, in 1982. Both were meant to complete a planned trilogy of films centring on Ivanhoe Martin.

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