Roy is writer, director and producer of the award-winning film Akwantu: the Journey (2012), on the history of the Jamaican Maroons. Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess (2015), Roy's sophomore film, 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 – Nanny of the Maroons. Roy is a veteran movie and television stuntman/stunt coordinator and second unit director. During his stellar career he’s performed stunts for Hollywood stars Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, and Morgan Freeman, to name a few. He’s accumulated more than 400 production credits in the process, working on such hits as; Men in Black 3, The Dark Knight Rises, Spiderman 2, Bourne Ultimatum, American Gangster, Wolf of Wall Street; and top rated TV series Blue Bloods, Person of Interest, Elementary, and Gotham. While continuing stunt work, Anderson aims to bring more underrepresented stories to the cinematic landscape through his New Jersey-based company Action 4 Reel Flimworks. He is currently in active development on a docu-drama on the life of famed Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, as told by his youngest son, Dr. Julius Garvey that will be directed and produced by Roy.
Selected Presentations:
- 23rd Annual New York African Film Festival: Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess – Screening and discussion. May 8, 2016, Lincoln Center, New York, NY.
- Krio Descendants Union Northeast presents Sustaining African Culture: Exploring, Celebrating & Sustaining African Cultural Identity – Panel discussion. April 16, 2016, New York, NY.
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Constructing New Amistad, Bunce Island, Gullah, Maroon and Nova Scotia Bridges – Panel discussion and performance. March 24, 2016, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.
- UN Remember Slavery Programme presents – Panel discussion and World Premiere Screening of Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess. October 19, 2015, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.
- Maroons Revisited: Akwantu: the Journey – Special screening and discussion, presented by the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. June 12, 2015, New York Public Library, Main Branch, New York, NY
- Roundtable discussion on the Representation of Slavery in Film, organized by the United Nations Programme of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade, featuring Anderson, Academy Award-winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr., Director Haile Gerima, and other distinguished speakers. September 4, 2014, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.
- Maroon to Rasta: A Jamaica Heritage Week Documentary Film Series: Akwantu: the Journey – Special screening and discussion. October 26, 2013, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn NY
- Telling our Maroon Story – special screening and presentation to celebrate the 275th Anniversary of the Maroon Treaty. January 5, 2013, Accompong, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.
- 55th Annual African Studies Association (ASA) meeting - Panel discussion and special screening of Akwantu: the Journey, sponsored by the West African Research Association (WARA). November 30, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.
- Boston University Fall Lecture Series - Panel discussion and special screening of Akwantu: the Journey, celebrating Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica's 50th Anniversary of Independence. October 2, 2012, Boston, MA.