Testimonies: a non-exhaustive and evolving resource list

Last updated June 2022

Films (available to watch for free):

• The Body Beautiful (Ngozi Onwurah, 1990)

• A Family Called Abrew (Maureen Blackwood, 1992)

• Flâner (Cecile Emeke, 2015)

• Tower XYZ (Ayo Akingbade, 2016)

• These Walls (Rabz Lansiquot, 2016)

• Rebirth Is Necessary (Jenn Nkiru, 2017)

• No Dance, No Palaver (Onyeka Igwe, 2017-2018)

• Lavender (Eva Bor, 2018)

• Stonewall | BAME Voices (Cherish Oteka, 2018)

• Black In Techno (Jenn Nkiru, 2019)

• Zero Zero (Eva Bor, 2020)

• RIP Seni (Daisy Ifama, 2021)

• Home Carnival Queen (Somina Fombo, 2021)

• The Black Cop (Cherish Oteka, 2022)

• Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51 (Liana Stewart, 2022)

• Tegan (Ngaio Aniya, 2022)

• Twinkleberry (Daisy Ifama, 2022)

Read:

• Mothers, lovers and others: films by Black British female directors. Karen Alexander, Sight & Sound, 1989

• A Q&A with… Onyeka Igwe, artist filmmaker exploring resistance to colonialism. Sonya Dyer, a-n, 2018

• RIP SENI director: why I made a film about a graffitied artwork, race and mental health. Guardian, 2021

• Some meandering personal reflections on Dreaming Rivers, language and Hostile Environment. Rabz Lansiquot, LUX, 2021

• ‘I tend to do the opposite of what people like’: unstoppable film-maker Ayo Akingbade. Guardian, 2021

• Black in Fact - Beyond the White Gaze: The examination of Black representation in documentaries for UK audiences. Cherish Oteka, Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity, 2022

Watch/Listen:

• In Conversation with Dionne Walker. Another Gaze, 2017.

• The Experimenta Debate: Representation and Praxis: part 1, part 2, part 4. BFI London Film Festival, 2018

• Black voices in Scottish documentary with Vanessa Kanbi and Stewart Kyasimire. Scottish Documentary Institute, 2020.

• Can a Black, working class woman succeed in a White, male dominated industry? Filmmaker Liana Stewart joins Industry Voices to tell her story. Screen Industries Growth Network, 2021.

• Sonic Register: British black Womxn And Onscreen Performativity (a recorded conversation) hosted by Judah Attille. Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021

Organisations:

• Brown Girls Doc Mafia: an initiative advocating for over 4,500 women and non-binary people of color working in the documentary film industry around the world.

• Boomflix Network: A network for queer black women and non binary folk dedicated to making, sharing and showing love for documentary films.

• Blak Wave Productions: an independent digital, tv and film production company based in Bristol, committed to producing impactful stories that reflect our society. Specialise in factual and non factual content and programming.

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