Whose Town Is It Anyway?: Brent

From the Black Earth

2022

From the Black Earth is a collaboration between Bristol based company Cables and Cameras, and a local farmer Humphrey Lloyd. Employing both lucid speakers and poetic camera work, the film poses stark questions such as; why does food poverty exist in a nation of plenty, and why are people of colour so under represented not only in our countryside and farms, but in the environmental movement more broadly? By giving a platform to people of colour who are connecting with nature and working the land, this short documentary starts to unpick these questions...

Brent Forever: Live From Brooklyn Paramount

2025 · ★ 10

Chelsea Cutler & Jeremy Zucker perform songs from their three 'Brent' Projects live from Brooklyn Paramount. Performed Live on November 26, 2024.

Risky Roadz Presents: The Movement Documentary Vol. 1

2007

THE MOVEMENT DOCUMENTARY IS AN INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE OF AN ARTIST IN THE UK GRIME SCENE. Risky Roadz follows the day in the life of six upcoming artists from the second wave of the UK Grime scene.

Spirit

2026

A celebration of home and belonging in South London. This is a film that tows the line between documentary and narrative, and celebrates neighborhood and the rhythms of everyday life in South London. Friends for over a decade, their closeness runs through the piece; rooted in lived relationships, it resists spectacle in favor of quiet intimacy.

Riots and Rumours of Riots

1981

Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.

Justice for Joy

1995

Special documentary examining the death of Joy Gardner in 1993 and the subsequent public campaign that culminated in the trial at the Old Bailey of those accused of causing her death.

Who Killed Colin Roach?

1983

Who Killed Colin Roach? is Isaac Julien's first film, which reflects upon the death of Colin Roach, a 23 year old who was shot at the entrance of a police station in East London, in 1982. Even though the police claimed Roach had commited suicide, evidence showed otherwise. Isaac Julien says that this work is essentially a response to the riots, an answer to certain fixed ways of looking at black cultures, but also at those ways we might feel about ourselves.

Skin of the Earth

2022

The film follows a group of growers who embrace the restorative power that the soil holds. Skin of the Earth is a story about the relationship between humans, the land, and belonging.

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

2021 · ★ 6

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. At the heart of the documentary is a series of astonishing interviews with past activists, many of whom are speaking for the first time about what it was really like to be involved in the British Black Power movement, bringing to life one of the key cultural revolutions in the history of the nation.

Honey and Spice

A young Black British woman with no interest in love unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a fake relationship with the very man she warned her girls about.

The Passion of Remembrance

1986

Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into what constitutes 'post-colonial' identity at a time of political and social restlessness in Britain. Set within an isolated desert landscape contrasted with recognizable scenes of the intensity of family life, this vanguard work demonstrates the richness and variety of the black experience; it is a poetic and hard-hitting commentary on the complexities of race, gender and sexuality.

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence

1999 · ★ 6.8

Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.