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Robbed, rejected, refused: The reality of the Windrush Scandal

Robbed, rejected, refused: The reality of the Windrush Scandal

by Alice Farkas | Feb 27, 2021 | Articles, Short Films

The next instalment in our Windrush short film series is another from Black Apron Productions, and their project ‘Windrush Generations’. Carmen has a chronological narrative. The film retells a grandmother’s story through the voice of her granddaughter. Filled with...
The Windrush Mothers: balancing stereo with stereotype

The Windrush Mothers: balancing stereo with stereotype

by Alice Farkas | Feb 3, 2021 | Articles, Short Films

Consider the sounds of the Caribbean, the beat, the patter, the rhythm of a tropical life, where the heat and humidity drive social events into the cooler hours of the late evening, outside and open. For so many, although of course not all, these were the sounds and...
Behind the box insights and why the Windrush theme was difficult to curate

Behind the box insights and why the Windrush theme was difficult to curate

by Heady Mix | Jan 14, 2021 | Articles, Heady Mix Women, Personal Essays, Short Films

Imagine waking up tomorrow and being told you no longer had the right to stay and live in your home. That is exactly what befell the Windrush generation, immigrants from Caribbean commonwealth countries who were legally entitled to move to and settle in the UK. It is...
Out of sight, out of mind: Australia’s offshore detention centres

Out of sight, out of mind: Australia’s offshore detention centres

by Alice Farkas | Jan 7, 2021 | Articles, Short Films

“Forgive me, my bird, as I am not able to embrace you.  But here  I know some immigrant birds. I smile at them at the crack of dawn   and I embrace them with open arms.   […]  The man loves you,   inside a cage located between the vastest ocean and the greenest...
Us, me, you, ours: a stop to the othering of refugees

Us, me, you, ours: a stop to the othering of refugees

by Alice Farkas | Dec 2, 2020 | Short Films

When you don’t exist is Amnesty International’s campaign that sought to raise awareness of the stigma, stereotype and shameful othering of refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers arriving at European borders. The title film, shown here, pivots the crisis, making Europe...
Preserving pieces of home: cultural context for a lost generation

Preserving pieces of home: cultural context for a lost generation

by Alice Farkas | Nov 10, 2020 | Short Films

My humanity won’t allow me to kill as retribution for my suffering. So instead, I kill the rock, to unleash the creation within it. Killing the Rock is a film that runs little over five minutes in length, yet it is one that provokes such a visceral, emotional reaction...
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