BBC starts Uprising with Steve McQueen
UK pubcaster BBC1 has ordered a factual series examining three significant events involving black British people in 1981, with Small Axe and 12 Years a Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen directing.
Steve McQueen
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Uprising (3×60’) series examines the New Cross Fire in January 1981, which killed 13 black teenagers; the Black People’s Day of Action in March, when more than 20,000 people joined the first organised mass protest by black British people; and the Brixton riots in April.
With James Rogan (Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation) also directing, Uprising will reveal how these three events intertwined and how, in the process, race relations were defined for a generation.
Steve McQueen, James Rogan to direct BBC1 three-parter “Uprising” Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen and James Rogan are set to direct and executive produce the three-part series Uprising for BBC1.
The 3 x 60-minute series will examine three events from 1981: . May 11, 2021
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen and James Rogan are set to direct and executive produce the three-part series
Uprising for BBC1.
The 3 x 60-minute series will examine three events from 1981: when the New Cross Fire killed 13 Black teenagers in January; Black People’s Day of Action in March, which saw more than 20,000 people join the first organized mass protest by Black British people; and the Brixton riots in April.
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