Dickie Jobson is dead
Published: Sunday | December 28, 2008
Jobson
Jamaican filmmaker Dickie Jobson died on Christmas Eve.
Jobson, who ventured into film production with the romantic drama, Countryman, in the 1970s, was honoured by the Jamaica Film Academy in February at the first Reggae Film Festival.
Countryman is a story of two American tourists cast away on the Hellshire beach, where real-life fisherman Countryman lives, and the adventures that follow as police pursue them as suspected drug exporters.
Jobson was a friend and business associate of fellow filmmakers, the late Perry Henzell and Chris Blackwell. He played an important role in continuing the progressive move to indigenous feature film production established by The Harder They Come.
