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BBC series from Steve McQueen highlights full Sheffield Doc/Fest lineup The Sheffield Doc/Fest has unveiled its full lineup for this year’s festival, including 55 world premieres. This year’s edition of the annual UK-based documentary film festival also includes 22 international premieres, . May 17, 2021 The Sheffield Doc/Fest has unveiled its full lineup for this year’s festival, including 55 world premieres. This year’s edition of the annual UK-based documentary film festival also includes 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres. On the whole, the festival includes films from 57 countries with 63 languages represented. Highlighting the 166 entries in the festival’s film program this year is the world premiere of ....
Director Steve McQueen and actor John Boyega on the set of Small Axe Small Axe, British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen will re-team with the BBC for a new three-part documentary entitled Uprising. Co-directed by producer James Rogan, the new series will focus on three important events all taking place in the year 1981: the January 1981 New Cross Fire, a fire at a party in the South London suburb that killed 13 young people; the Black People’s Day of Action two months later, the first organised protest by Black Britons, with 20,000 people flooding the streets; and the April Brixton riots, also known as the Brixton uprising, a confrontation between Metropolitan police and protesters that would live long in the cultural memory. These events formed the backdrop to the fourth ....
Steve McQueen and BBC Team for U.K. Race Relations Series Uprising Naman Ramachandran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail After the global success of “Small Axe,” the BBC and acclaimed British filmmaker Steve McQueen are teaming again for documentary series “Uprising.” The three-part series will explore three seminal events of 1981 that changed race relations in the U.K. and defined them for a generation. In January 1981, a fire at a party in the London suburb of New Cross killed 13 Black teenagers. In March, more than 20,000 people joined Black People’s Day of Action, the first organized protest by Black Britons. And April was when the Brixton riots took place. ....
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 (photo: Melony McGant) 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. ....