The westminster area, but this is what it is like in this area, people are going about their daily business, milling about, and there are business, milling about, and there a re protests. So business, milling about, and there are protests. So at the moment we do not know which type of groups are here and what they are specifically doing, other than the intel police have told us, which is that they wa nt to have told us, which is that they want to come in their own words, defend the monuments and statues that they feel are being vandalised in and around the westminster area. Chi chi izundu in westminster, many thanks for talking to us today. Now its time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. Hello. Its a bit of a mixed day out there. For some of us, some blue sky and some sunshine, for other areas, some torrential downpours. And thats really the way it looks through the rest of the weekend. There will be some sunshine that its going to feel quite warm, quite humid as well, but that humidity is kicking off some thundery downpours at times, particularly this evening through the south west of england, wales, parts of southern england as well. Those showers gradually fading overnight. Well keep more cloud for parts of scotland and north east england as well, and wherever you are, its going to be a mild, fairly humid feeling night. So, tomorrow will be fairly similar to what weve had today, again some sunshine, a bit cloudierfor the north east of england and the east of scotland with one or two showers. South west of england, wales, perhaps north west england and Northern Ireland seeing the potentialfor some heavy, possibly thundery showers later in the day, but again pretty warm for the time of year, around 16 to 23 degrees. Looking ahead towards monday and that theme continues. Sunny spells, heavy, thundery showers, particularly towards the west, some sunshine and top temperatures around 15 to 23 degrees. Hello, this is bbc news with geeta guru murthy. The headlines. Groups of protesters including right wing activists have clashed with police in Central London as they gathered Near Parliament and the statue of winston churchill. Organisers of an anti racism protest decide against marching to westminster and call on people to disperse and go home. The bbc has obtained a copy of a leaked draft report into the impact of coronavirus on ethnic minority communities. It includes as yet unpublished recommendations on how to protect them. The queens official birthday has been marked with a ceremony at Windsor Castle this morning. It took place instead of the annual trooping the colour parade, due to the coronavirus lockdown. Now on bbc news, tom brook presents all the latest news and reviews from the us cinema scene with reports from hollywood and new york. Hello from new york. Im tom brook sitting on a park bench in central park not far from my home. Welcome to our talking movies documentary special. The other day i was here in central park riding my bike, as i often do, when i began to hear the sounds of protest. On central park westjust across the way from where im sitting over there were a group of maybe 200 or 300 demonstrators. I then went to the east side of the park to 5th avenue and there was another large contingent of protesters. Heading north to the end of the park i found there were Police Vehicles with their lights flashing and Police Officers prepared for some kind of action. It was just one manifestation of the civil unrest that engulfed this country in the wake of the may 25th killing of an African American man george floyd in minneapolis who was being restrained by a white Police Officer. Today in talking movies were going to focus on those documentaries which have attempted to look at the issue of Police Violence when its targeted against unarmed black individuals. One of the most egregious instances of Police Brutality to be documented on video has to be the 1991 beating by los angeles Police Officers of rodney king. Footage of the event provoked an outcry. Several documentaries have covered the incident of the riots the following year when three of the officers involved in the beating were acquitted. One of americas leading film makers to focus on civil rights struggles Stanley Nelson is developing a documentary series on the relationship between the police and African Americans. I went to visit him. He told me that after the fact documentary films can provide background on how black people like george floyd come to die. I think documentary films main role is to kind of look back and give context to whats happening. In many ways, the police in this country are an outgrowth of slave catchers, you know, and the relationship between African Americans and the police force has never been a good one. Its always been, you know, an Occupying Army in our communities and thats where we are largely today. Anybody growing up here, you tangibly know when you are crossing county lines you have to drive a little differently. Documentaries focusing on acts of Police Brutality against black people have utilised different techniques. Many are of the talking head variety. But the 2017 film whose streets relied on User Generated Content to look at the ferguson, missouri misery uprising that erupted in the wake of the 2014 Police Killing of michael brown. Its been 52 days and ive spent more time injail than darren wilson. The film whose streets uses citizen generated footage to capture the ferguson protests. There was so much that was documented by people on the scene, even if they werent professional documentarians. The film does a really good job of providing context to the footage they were able to capture. Its the hype. The newest, latest. Let me tell you the story of right hand, left hand. Sometimes, narrative films can do an effectivejob to bring home the horror of Police Violence. Spike lees 1989 comedy drama do the right thing depicted the character radio raheem killed in a chokehold by a new york Police Officer. Many times over my film career, when i go to film festivals or whatnot, and i get interviewed by journalists, one of the first questions is always about whatever racial incident just happened in the United States of america. And the United States of america, racism, they do it better than anybody else. But its not just. Racism is all over the world. And so this is a Global Pandemic before corona. The 2017 documentary the blood is at the doorstep looked into the case of dontre hamilton killed by a Milwaukee Police officer. It was made by a white film maker, raising the question, who is best equipped to tell stories dealing with lethal Police Violence targeting African Americans . Should it be white people or black people, or does it not matter . I think its always much more valid to have storytellers come from the community that the storys being told by. I think that if im telling a story of the black community, i have the ability to dive deep into that story. Its hard for a white film maker to go deep. This is the culture i come from. I know that culture very well. That only exists for white film makers. You dont find black film makers making films about white folks. Itjust doesnt happen. But white people tend to think that they are kind of a blank slate and they can make a film about whatever they want, and you know, thats ok, and they dont think about the fact that thats a form of cultural racism. There is a sense that hollywood and the Film Industry in general tends to support white storytellers, even subconsciously. And there is a real desire to see more black storytellers step up and lead the charge to wrestle with whats going on here. So, to a large degree, whats going to be fascinating in the next few months and over the next year is to see who is first to tell these stories and what perspective are they taking and how are they representing that perspective. Because so much of what we see in the news is very insular. The george floyd case certainly shows the potency of the captured image. The video of him being restrained by the Police Officer provoked massive civil unrest, notjust in america, but also in distant foreign capitals continents away. But the image has limitations. Even documentary film makers have to acknowledge. We the jury find the defendant not guilty. Institutional racism in the us is so entrenched, that the savage beating by Police Officers of rodney king in 1991 captured so powerfully, failed initially to bring convictions. And astonishing as it may seem, convictions may not come automatically for those eventually found culpable for George Floyds death, despite an image that strongly suggests to many of those who have been protesting that a murder charge was totally warranted. Now lets continue with our special programme focusing on documentaries. You might imagine that with millions of people confined to their homes during the pandemic that fantasy would be the preferred form of entertainment. Well, that hasnt exactly been the case because documentaries peddling real life stories have been very, very popular. My colleague emma jones reports. Its not every day that a zookeeper went to prison for murder for hire. In a pandemic, facts are king. In this case, tiger king. During a near global lockdown, the documentary series about former zoo operatorjoe exotic, the only kind of exotic most audiences can get near, was watched more than 60 million times. We cant afford to wait for the world to be equal to start feeling seen. Meanwhile, becoming, netflixs documentary film about Michelle Obamas book tour, outperformed all expectations making it into the top ten most watched films on the streaming platform. Was it a huge fan base or a thirst for inspiration in lockdown . We never imagined that when we released this film that the world would be on a shelter in place order. But i do think this has been a time of reflection for a lot of us, of having an opportunity to relate to stories in a way that may have changed a bit. Do you think its a little dangerous hanging our guns in a bank . There has always been one voluble exception for the comparatively puny profits documentaries make in cinemas compared to features. Some of Michael Moores films have made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. Moore has also gone online. A new film he produced, planet of the humans, was released on youtube and watched 8 million times before it was withdrawn for copyright reasons. Some climate scientists have disagreed with the ideas in the film. Documentaries can be powerful objects. A film can be called the truth by one viewer, propaganda by another. Since the sheffield documentary festival is taking place this month and some of the content will be available online, what responsibility do you think curators have towards their audiences in terms of what they get to watch . It is not our role to establish truth, not at all, but it is our role to say, well, here are some facts about this, here is a personal position about this, here is some knowledge about that. And to actually be able to build a programme, a panorama in the discourse that can give people honestly the difference between what is knowledge, what is an opinion about our reality. Take one. A direct relationship between director and audience may not be a bad thing. In a galaxy far, far away from political documentaries, british director debs paterson made the skywalker legacy, a doc about the making of the latest star wars episode, the rise of skywalker. It was due to premiere in cinemas the week much of the world locked down and was released on disney instead with twitter as an audience gauge. That was kind of special, actually, in the sort of weird lockdown of it all, to have this experience and feeling we were connecting and thankfully enjoying it. The curation of content doesnt happen in the way that it used to and that feels incredibly exciting. You know, you can discover stuff because other people are excited about it. Considering the oscar for best documentary feature this year went to american factory, netflix, which competed against the edge of democracy, netflix, the new think film makers should just flock to deep pocketed streaming services. Hello