Projects in genres: Black

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Inspired by writer, director and star Aml Ameen's life, BOXING DAY follows Melvin, a British author living in America, who returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée, Lisa, to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancée has left behind.

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In a near-future world where you can discover your Death Day, an apolitical woman learns that she and many Black people have been given incorrect dates and seeks justice before her time runs out - that same day.

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A non-acrimonious but sudden divorce wrenches the gay, working-class born Emeka out of a decade-long hiatus living the middle-class dream, landing him back in the childhood council house he hoped he'd left behind.

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A "black imaginary repository”, a container space for our collective black imaginaries that exist outside of time + space that honours the legacy of Seneca Village, a 19th-century settlement (1825-1857) which stood on black-owned land, known today as Central Park in NYC. Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2022

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A submergence into the vivid realities of three Transgender sex workers living in Cape Town, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. Official Selection Hamptons International Film Festival 2021 - World premiere Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022

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A moving-image collaboration between the two artists. Unfolding from the creators’ perspectives in the Somali diaspora, the piece takes the lead from East African mythos and Islamic imagery to explore mythmaking, Blackness; a ‘generation of ghosts’ and the transient spirit. Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2022

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Creative exploration and amplification of covid-19 pandemic as experienced through the eyes of Signkid, a deaf-rapper in London. This musical short film creatively explores the ‘silent world’ that has intensified and deepened for D/deaf people in the course of the COVID pandemic.

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A group of British Black youths from one of London’s most notorious estates defy public perception by supporting their local community when they needed it the most. Not all superheroes wear capes. Sometimes they come dressed in hoodies.

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An intergenerational documentary that follows Barry, a Jamaican-born beekeeper. Despite the pandemic slowing down the campaign to keep his beloved Caribbean centre open, Barry takes inspiration from his bees and is still reminded that hope and togetherness can be found in all situations. Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2022

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By the year 2080, climate change has forced human beings from the Earth, those who remain forced to live isolated nomadic existence. In the desolate landscape, Dez forages for survival until they unearth a morsel of the past, which leads them on an unexpected mission.

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An illegal immigrant swims ashore from a passing ship and hopes for the best.

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Did George Floyd's killing mark a turning point for change or false dawn? Despite the global outcry, US Police continue instigating indiscriminate violence against Black communities. Is there a parallel history of structural racism in Britain? Since watching George's viral footage, Black Britain, Michael's mind has been thrown into freefall.