QUEEN NANNY: LEGENDARY MAROON CHIEFTAINESS – Friday, June 10, 2016 at 7:30 pm
Special Features: Introduced by Robert Skinner, Director of the UN Information Center; post-screening Q&A with producer Alison G. Anderson
Co-presented by the United Nations Information Center.
QUEEN NANNY documents the Jamaican Maroons’ struggle for freedom, led by the indomitable 18th-century military genius and Jamaican national hero Nanny of the Maroons. A spiritual leader skilled in the use of herbs and guerrilla warfare tactics, she directed the fighting that effectively neutralized the vaunted firepower of the British, all from her mountain stronghold. Following on the heels of AKWANTU: THE JOURNEY, director Roy T. Anderson’s award-winning film on the history of the Jamaican Maroons, this rousing new documentary expands on the story of the New World’s first successful freedom fighters by shedding light on one of the leading figures in that struggle.
DIR/SCR/PROD Roy T. Anderson; PROD Harcourt T. Fuller, Alison G. Anderson, Natalie Thompson. Jamaica/U.S., 2015, color, 59 min, digital presentation.
Run Time: 59 Minutes
Genre: Documentary – history
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