Young Soul Rebels

Bernie Grant Arts Centre Screening Lounge Celebrates LGBT History Month.

The Bernie Grant Arts Centre Screening Lounge is an Independent Cinema in the heart of Tottenham.

Throughout February, The Bernie Grant Arts Centre Screening Lounge will be celebrating LGBT History Month.

February is LGBT History Month National. A month dedicated to celebrating the lives, stories, contributions and achievements of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people from around the world. With a view to celebrate BAME art and culture; BGAC will showcase the great and the good of Black Queer Cinema, which will mark the launch of our commitment to LGBT Cinema at the centre, one of a number of commitments to highlight the diversity, within diversity.

Select screenings will be accompanied by a panel and post screening discussion, to allow the audience the opportunity to explore the themes of the films and get to know the creative contributors.


Young Soul Rebels (1991)

105 mins, Set in 1977, during the week of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Together with his partner Caz, Chris, a young black London DJ, runs pirate radio station Soul Patrol from an East End garage. When a mutual friend is murdered whilst cruising in a London park, Chris is arrested for the murder. Young Soul Rebels was awarded the Semaine de la critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991 and launched the career of Sophie Okonedo. Also starring Valentine Nonyela and Mo Sesay.

This largely character-driven thriller-drama is the feature-film debut of British documentary filmmaker Isaac Julien, and provides viewers with an insider's look at the diverse lifestyles of hip, young black immigrants who lived upon the fringes of 1977 London society.