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Last modified on Wed 5 May 2021 10.01 EDT In this feature-length extension of his 2020 documentary A Film Called Blacks Can’t Swim, producer and writer Ed Accura devotes further time pondering the titular myth. It’s immediately clear that it’s a case of don’t, not can’t. But however it has come about, this shibboleth is now responsible for an astonishing statistic: 95% of black adults in the UK and 80% of black children do not swim. As the film points out multiple times, this has life-threatening implications. Lack of parental encouragement, lack of opportunities at school, no role models, braided hair, fear of the deep end and ancestral memories of slave-trade Atlantic drownings are just some of the reasons given in a generous spread of interviews. As well as this fieldwork, the film also has an activist thread in order to combat what Accura calls “blaquaphobia”: dramatised interludes in which he plays Frank, a recent swimming convert trying to c

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