Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess

The Documentary Film

Dr. Harcourt Fuller, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, is a producer and writer (with Roy T. Anderson, who is also director) of the groundbreaking documentary-film called Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess. This 1-hour documentary-film chronicles the history and legacy of Jamaica’s only female National Heroine Nanny of the Maroons, who was the 18th century leader of the Jamaican Maroons. It features important Jamaican cultural icons such as the Queen of Reggae, Rita Marley, the fastest woman in the world, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the first (and current) female Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Honorable Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaican Member of Parliament Olivia “Babsy” Grange, U.S. Congresswomen Una and Yvette Clarke, among others.