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Visibly Me (dir. Nicola Cross, UK, 2016), 21 minutes
Visibly me tells the story of a 47-year-old woman with no partner and no children who finds herself invisible and feels she has no choice but to find the antidote.

Cardiff 1919 Riots Redrawn (dir. Kyle Legall, UK, 2020), 28 minutes
Cardiff 1919: Riots Redrawn is a vivid day-by-day, hour-by-hour account of the Cardiff race riots, pieced together from reports in local newspapers, following the dynamic ebb and flow of the rioting.

Caribbean Skin, African Identity (dir. Mandisa Pantin, Trinidad and Tobago, 2012), 40 Minutes
Exploring the evolution of the idea of African identity in the Caribbean against the backdrop of Emancipation Day rituals and parade

501 Not Out (dir. Sam Lockyer, United Kingdom, 2019)
Over twenty-five years on from Brian Lara’s world-record breaking innings for Warwickshire at Edgbaston, brand new documentary 501 Not Out tells the story of cricket’s first global superstar.

Just ah likkle piece of Jamaica in Port Talbot
(dir. Tracy Pallant, Wales, 2019), 40 minutes
A celebration of the previously untold stories of Jamaican Elders who made Port Talbot, South Wales, their home in the 1950s and 60s.

The Peckham Wall – A Silent Voice (dir. Tracey Francis, UK, 2018), 2 minutes
This two-minute film addresses the silent but constant voice of the Peckham Wall that was moved from Peckham Hill Street to outside of the Peckhamplex Cinema.

Harold Phillips – Lord Woodbine (dir. Lana Hughes, UK, 2020), 28 minutes
Alexander D Great’s song “Harold Phillips, Lord Woodbine” commemorates the life of the Trinidadian calypsonian who coached the Beatles in their early teens. Videographer Lana Hughes captures Alexander’s performance, interspersed with pictures informing us of Woodbine’s arrival in 1948 on the Empire Windrush, as well as his musical career in Liverpool, including driving the Beatles to Hamburg for the first time in 1960. His influence on the “Fab Four” has been somewhat “airbrushed out”. This video goes someway to towards restoring his reputation as their musical mentor.

Hard Stop
(dir. George Amponsah, United Kingdom, 2015) 85 minutes
The police killing of Mark Duggan in London in 2011 ignites the worst civil unrest in recent British history.

Jamaican Men: A Collector’s Choice I Art Exhibition July 2012 London (dir. Dionne Walker, UK, 2012), 9 minutes
An interaction between Jamaica through art, and an interesting mixed audience made of African, British and Caribbean people

Iciline Brown, our Windrush Generation Story (dir. Monica D. Brown, UK, 2016), 10 minutes
A successful Windrush story about fighting to win.

The Story of Sam King MBE (dir. Quince Garcia, UK, 2019), 17 minutes
Sam King MBE was involved in many activities that moved the U.K in a direction where the nation would acknowledge a new type of diversity, culture and politics.

Hero: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life and Times of Mr. Ulric Cross
(dir. Frances-Anne Solomon, Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, 2019) 110 minutes
The story of Ulric Cross, a West Indian lawyer who joined the Pan-African independence movements sweeping the world in the 1960s.

Windrush Child (Rainbow Collective Animation Club, The Green, United KIngdom, 2018), 2 minutes
An animated tribute to the Windrush generation from children in London.

Focus Claudia Jones (dir. Joyce Fraser, Zoom Presentation, United KIngdom, 2020), 11 minutes
Filmed theatre enactment on the life of Claudia Jones 2020. A new play by the Black heroes Foundation.

Thanks For Coming (dir. Daisy Jones, United KIngdom, 2019), 4 minutes
Thanks For Coming deals with the mistreatment of the Windrush Generation that was highlighted in the news in 2018. This scandal speaks of a growing attitude towards immigrants in our country and asks the question: What is it that makes someone British?

Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle
(United Kingdom, 2019) 60 minutes
Monologues that reveal the hopes, desires, achievements, shattered dreams and broken promises of a single fictionalised family over four generations.

Reunion (dir. Frances Anne Solomon, UK, 1992), 30 minutes
In 1943, 300 middle class “coloured” women from across the West Indies were recruited to the ATS, a branch of the British Army. This film documents for the first time the contribution of these women to WW2.

Rootical: An Audience with Charlie Phillips (dir. Nike Hatzidimou, UK, 2006), 25 minutes
A biographical look at Afro Caribbean photographer, Charlie Phillips who examined the social implications of immigration to the UK

The Windrush Generation, History and Storytelling

A panel discussion on the contributions and influence of the Windrush Generation.

Sargasso! A Caribbean Love Story (Michael Gilkes, Dominica/Guyana, 1991, 47 minutes)

The first screen adaptation of Jean Rhys novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, from a Caribbean perspective. It examines the girlhood and marriage of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, the madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Brontëe’s novel Jane Eyre. The film also includes biographical and critical information about Rhys.

A People’s Art – Genesis of Freedom
(dir. Tony Oldham, United Kingdom, 2019) 58 minutes

Ayesha is a young mixed-race British girl who is on a journey to find out the truth about what the Notting Hill Carnival really represents. From its genesis in the 1958 Race Riots and a young man’s murder to its contemporary perception as a Carnival of violence, Ayesha discovers that this vibrant, colourful Carnival represents something much deeper in British history.