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The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a hub of community activism during the 1970s.
- Small Axe - BBC iPlayer
Love letters to black resilience and triumph in London's...
- The people and events of Small Axe - BBC Bitesize
Small Axe, a series of five films from writer and director...
- Small Axe - BBC iPlayer
Love letters to black resilience and triumph in London's West Indian community, directed by Oscar winner Steve McQueen. Vivid stories of hard-won victories in the face of racism.
Dec 11, 2020 · Alex Wheatle: Directed by Steve McQueen. With Khali Best, Fumilayo Brown-Olateju, Riley Burgin, Ross Cahill. The true story of writer Alex Wheatle and his spell in prison after the Brixton riots.
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- Drama, History
- Steve McQueen
- 2020-12-11
Small Axe, a series of five films from writer and director Steve McQueen, takes a closer look at London’s West Indian community from the 1960s to the 1980s. If you’re wondering why the name...
- Alex Wheatle’S Early Life
- The 1981 Brixton Uprising
- Wheatle’S Experience in Prison and as A Successful Writer
Wheatle is today an accomplished and award-winning author, having written more than a dozen books, including children’s and young adult novels, as well as writing and performing a play about his life titled Uprising. But parts of his childhood were deeply painful and have been difficult to revisit and process. In 2014, he spoke out about the system...
At the same time, Wheatle was living during a period of tense race relations in Britain; these experiences have informed his writing, particularly in his early novels Brixton Rock and East of Acre Lane. The uprising in Brixton in April 1981 resulted from a mixture of underlying tensions, including disproportionate and racist policing of young Black...
Wheatle was arrested after the uprising and sentenced to a four-month prison sentence for his participation. It was there that he met his cellmate, Simeon, who would become a huge influence on the young Wheatle, who was carrying bitterness and anger about what had happened to him during his childhood and adolescence. “Slowly and surely, I began to ...
- Suyin Haynes
Fondazione Prada will premiere Steve MᶜQueen’s complete television series Small Axe (2020) at its Cinema on Sunday 12 June 2022 and in the following two weekends (18 -19 June and 25 – 26 June 2022).
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Small Axe is a British anthology film series, created and directed by Steve McQueen. The anthology consists of five films that tell distinct stories about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s. [1] Two episodes of the series were selected into the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
