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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...