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Menelik Shabazz: For The People | BFI Event

Menelik Shabazz: For The People | BFI Event

Join Menelik’s family, friends and collaborators for a commemorative day of illustrated talks and film screenings at the BFI Southbank. During the day we’ll present some of his lesser-known work, and finish with a rare screening of Time and Judgement.  The event...
Catch A Fire: Story Behind the Film

Catch A Fire: Story Behind the Film

I travelled to Jamaica with historian Cecil Gutzemore. Whilst in St Thomas at the grave site of Bogle, I met an elder woman who walked with a limp. Meeting her was one of those ‘chance’ moments that transform your life… Pictured: The late Philip Bogle –...
Breaking Point: Story Behind the Film

Breaking Point: Story Behind the Film

I was happy as a lark. I’d reached the mainstream – life was good! I didn’t realise the stir I was causing in this exclusive white world… I had a screening at the Filmmaker’s Co-op back in ’77 of Step Forward Youth which was attended...
Looking for Love: Story Behind the Film

Looking for Love: Story Behind the Film

We carry a lot of psychological baggage from childhood that many of us don’t even know we are carrying and this plays out in our relationships When embarking on my documentary feature film LOOKING FOR LOVE, I was struck by the absence of documentary films on the...
Step Forward Youth: Story Behind the Film

Step Forward Youth: Story Behind the Film

We lived in the shadows of Enoch Powell’s speech predicting black immigration would lead to conflict and ‘blood on our streets’ Step Forward Youth was my very first film back in 1977. I was in my early twenties just out of film school with my partner in...