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Steve McQueen to produce BBC films on black power and UK schools scandal

Black Power will chart the rise of the movement that grew out of the civil rights struggle, producing leaders and intellectuals such as Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X, who both visited the UK. The documentary, which will be helmed by Hard Stop director George Amponsah, will feature footage of African American figures in the UK but also black British leaders, including Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Darcus Howe and Roy Sawh. Jones-LeCointe and Howe were key figures in the British black power movement and were part of the seminal Mangrove Nine case, where – for the first time – a British judge said the police had been guilty of racist attitudes.

BBC films about Black power and ESN schools to be produced by Steve McQueen

BBC films about Black power and ESN schools to be produced by Steve McQueen McQueen will be the executive producer of the film projects and said that many of the people that appear in the documentaries will be “telling their stories for the first time.” EXECUTIVE DECISIONS: Steve McQueen s new films are inspired by the Small Axe series on BBC Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage OSCAR-WINNING director Steve McQueen is to start production on films for the BBC about the Black power movement and UK ESN school scandal. McQueen will be the executive producer of the film projects and said that many of the people that appear in the documentaries will be “telling their stories for the first time.”

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Black Power (w/t), directed by BAFTA-nominated George Amponsah (The Hard Stop), and Subnormal, directed by Lyttanya Shannon with both films originating from filmmaker Steve McQueen ( 12 Years A Slave, Small Axe). Black Power (w/t; 1 x 90 minutes for BBC2 and BBC iPlayer) will examine how the Black Power movement came into being in the late 1960s and fought against police brutality and racism. It will feature archive of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X and Stokely Carmichael’s activities in Britain, as well as footage of leading figures in the UK movement such as Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Darcus Howe (pictured) and Roy Sawh.

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