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Published:Sunday | October 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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From left: Lecturer at UWI, Mona - Western Jamaica campus, Nicole Plummer; administrator Inderia Adjudah; and librarian Sandra Stubbs at the screening of Rex Nettleford's 'Renaissance Man'.
From left: Carlene Duhaney and Reginald and Miki Tomlin at the screening of 'Renaissance Man'.-Photos by Janet Silvera
Resident Magistrate Winsome Henry (left) and educator Munira Folayan check out the work of the late Professor Rex Nettleford.
From left: Dr Margaret Kerr, Sharon Sloley, her son, Sport Sloley, and Nicole Allen.
From left: Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson (left) is greeted by Montego Bay Mayor Glendon Harris and Dr Luz Longsworth, director of the University of the West Indies, Mona - Western Jamaica campus.
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson greets Lennie Little-White, writer and director of 'Renaissance Man'.
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Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:The foundation established in memory of Professor Rex Nettleford has announced that the documentary, Renaissance Man, will be released in other Caribbean countries, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.

Renaissance Man provides insight into the humble beginnings of the late Cornwall College old boy, who was responsible for many of Jamaica's most memorable choreographed masterpieces, including 'Plantation Revelry', 'The King Must Die', and 'African Scenario', among a host of others.

The film, which attracted a large turnout of students, educators, dignitaries and admirers of the late professor at its premiere at Palace Multiplex in Montego Bay last Thursday, will make stops in Port-of-Spain and the wider eastern Caribbean, Toronto, London, New York, Washington, and, of course, Rhodes House, Oxford.

According to former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, a board member of the foundation, it was at Oxford House that Nettleford's distinguished achievements in academics and the arts earned him great renown.

Patterson described the Montego Bay premiere, organised by the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona - Western Jamaica Campus, as a homecoming for one of Jamaica's most illustrious sons.

The film's director and writer, Lennie Little-White, concurred.

FELT HONOURED

He said Patterson's invitation to him to view the film in his company with people from western Jamaica was an honour he would treasure.

"As one who got my high-school foundation at Cornwall College (before Jamaica College), coming home was special, because this was the same crucible that also started the creative fire burning in Professor Nettleford as a young schoolboy in Montego Bay, who had to chart new pathways out of what we now call the 'inner city'," said Little-White.

Patterson said without a special group of persons, including Little-White, the project would not have been possible.

The former prime minister also praised The Reed Foundation, which funded the film; the Rex Nettleford Estate; the UWI, where Nettleford served; the National Dance Theatre Company, which he founded; the Jamaica Information Service; Palace Amusement Company; and Elizabeth Buchanan-Hind.

janet.silvera@gleanerjm.com