Films for Black History Month with Robert Beckford

To celebrate Black History Month, Tipping Point Film Fund will be hosting a double bill screening of Robert Beckford’s Channel 4 documentaries, The Empire Pays Back and Great African Scandal, at The Bernie Grant Arts Centre on Thursday 28 October at 7.30pm.

The films will be followed by a Q&A with Dr. Robert Beckford – an opportunity to explore the range of issues raised in both films, from reparation for Jamaica to the impact of IMF and World Bank policies on Ghana. Tickets cost £5 (£3 conc) but are free to Tipping Point Film Fund regular givers and annual donors of more than £60.

Tipping Point Film Fund promotes the power of film as a campaigning tool to bring about political and social change. Robert’s films help to do just that, by exposing and challenging the inequity in the relationship between rich and poor countries and raising timely questions about the extent to which former colonies have truly shaken off colonial shackles and secured real economic independence.

Dr. Robert Beckford is an academic and award winning broadcaster based in Birmingham. He has authored half-a-dozen books in the field of theology and culture and made over 20 documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, averaging two films per year with Channel 4, becoming a regular fixture on the prime time television slots of Christmas Day and Easter Sunday.