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Red, White and Blue, the third and final installment of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe quintet of films about racial issues specific to Great Britain being world premiered at the New York Film ...
It was an in,” McQueen said. “It was before Oscars So White. My proudest feeling after 12 Years A Slave was that a lot of Black filmmakers got opportunities to make their movies.
McQueen has focused on the Black experience in all of the “Small Axe” films. Several of them depict real events: “Mangrove” is a courtroom drama and “Red, White and Blue” tells the ...
When Steve McQueen first approached John Boyega about playing London police officer Leroy Logan in his Amazon Prime Video anthology series “Small Axe,” they were both amazed and puzzled by the ...
The movie, McQueen’s third LFF opening film, follows 9-year-old George (Heffernan) in wartime London after his mother Rita (Ronan) sends him as an evacuee to safety in the English countryside.
London’s West Indian community and the Black British experience are at the heart of three new documentaries from Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen ("12 Years a Slave," "Hunger").
Steve McQueen on How Directors Shouldn’t Be A***holes and Why “I Have to Get the F*** on With It” as a Black Filmmaker In a talk before opening the London fest, the Oscar winner spoke about ...
Steve McQueen ‘s 2020 anthology film series “Small Axe” grew out of a desire to shed light on Black resistance movements in Britain, between the 1960s and 1980s. So, too, does a ...
One in four Black men will get a prostate cancer diagnosis in their life-time compared to one in eight for white men, according to Public Health England. Even more alarming, Black men are two ...
Director Steve McQueen has followed up on “ Small Axe,” last year’s narrative anthology series about West Indian immigrants in London, with another series about Black British history ...
Steve McQueen and the Meaning of Resistance A photography exhibition curated by the artist and filmmaker gathers nearly 200 black-and-white photographs showing a century of political struggles.
Steve McQueen's Small Axe films, which launch Friday on Amazon Prime with 'Mangrove,' highlight injustice, but also remind of Black resilience.