When the Black Film Bulletin emerged out of the BFI’s former African Caribbean Unit in spring 1993, its debut issues chronicled both the prolific new wave of Black cinema across the diaspora in the early 1990s and the timely openings of Europe’s first Black-owned film exhibition venues. Thirty years on, one of the UK’s leading Black cinema exhibition platforms, We Are Parable, marks its own ten-year anniversary. Cofounder Anthony Andrews reflects on its rise, the collectives that came before it and the evolving Black British screen scene.
When the Black Film Bulletin emerged out of the BFI’s former African Caribbean Unit in spring 1993, its debut issues chronicled both the prolific new wave of Black cinema across the diaspora in the early 1990s and the timely openings of Europe’s first Black-owned film exhibition venues. Thirty years on, one of the UK’s leading Black cinema exhibition platforms, We Are Parable, marks its own ten-year anniversary. Cofounder Anthony Andrews reflects on its rise, the collectives that came before it and the evolving Black British screen scene.