Why We Are More Than Black Filmmakers - Screenings and Panel Discussion

A series of short films by black and brown female filmmakers, including films by Dionne Walker, Eloise King, Savannah Leaf and Nadine Marsh Edwards.

The screenings will be followed by discussion “Why we are more than black filmmakers”. Chaired by visiting lecturer and alumni Dionne Walker, the panel will include Nadine Marsh Edwards, Rayna Campbell and Isis Thompson.
Screenings:

Regent’s & Vicky (AKA Cheek by Jowl)

Directed by Dionne Walker (10mins) [work-in-progress]

Regent’s & Vicky AKA Cheek by Jowl is a contemporary social analysis about 21st Century digital vs analogue living and reflects how Londoners are hustlin’ along the Regent’s Canal – the old industrial transport way that streams across North London from West to East.

We follow a non-binary millennial as she interacts with Londoners, and gain an insight into the uncertainties many are facing such as homelessness. As we come to see how Brexit looms largely, local people are under pressure and are coming up with weird, wonderful and criminal activities to survive.

“It’s a series of vignettes that reflects the haves, and the have-nots, as we check into the subcultures of protesters, foodies, Afro-punkers, Soho-priders, Boston hippies, Skiers, New Yorkers, South Americans, west coasters, Kiwis, East, South East, South Asians, North, East, West and South Africans, Aussies, Russell Group Uni set, UAL artistes and fashionistas, Canadians, Camdenites, Hackney hipsters and continental Europeans, next to long-time resident Eastenders, Cockneys, Big Issue-sellers, Soup Kitchen visitors, Windrushians, Middle-Easterners, Mediterraneans, Cabbies, Pub+Market owners, as they live cheek by jowl and wrestle for space metaphorically and physically.”

Regent’s & Vicky AKA Cheek by Jowl is a location-based series that integrates the expanse of the waterway and the unsettling green lifestyle of wheelchair users, walkers, joggers, canoeing trainers, push-chair users, the police, the River and Canal Trust volunteers and cyclists and as they negotiate the narrow towpath, we observe the effects of climate change.

Been So Long

Produced by Nadine Marsh Edwards. Directed by Tinge Krishnan

In 2018 Nadine, along with her business partner at Greenacre Films, produced the feature film 'Been So Long’. Funded by the BFI and Film 4, the film was written by Che Walker, directed by Tinge Krishnan ('Junkhearts’) and starring Michaela Coel (Chewing Gum, Black Earth Rising), Arinze Kene (The Pass, Misty) and George Mackay (Captain Fantastic). After a trailer for the film was showcased at Cannes, a global deal with Netflix was negotiated.

In 2017/18, Nadine produced the BAFTA and RTS-winning ‘Joe All Alone’, a four-part series for the BBC. During this period she also Exec produced two BBC Arts programmes – one being the performance art piece ‘The Ruins of Empire’, which is the realisation of a graphic novel written by and starring Hip Hop artist Akala overseen by Andy Serkis, the other a documentary that follows in the footsteps of and re-imagines Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’, also with Akala/Immovable.

Nadine will also speak about her biography.

Welcome to Britain: A Jamaican Tale

Directed by Eloise King (22 mins)

'Welcome to Britain: A Jamaican Tale’ is a series of four engaging personal portraits that reveal the enduring power of oral traditions, to create a potent collective history.

Subtly set against the timeline of immigration from the British Nationality Act of 1948, through 1980s immigration reforms to the present immigration debates, these films present a cultural dialogue through the prism of everyday-life experiences.

Exploring Pearlene, Dwayne, Nicolene and Leford’s journey to Britain and their lives beyond arrival – to find out if they will ever feel totally at home in Britain and what is the cost of becoming British?