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A New Dawn for Italian Cinema in the UK
Launched in December, the CinemaItaliaUK player will make both Italian classics, as well as contemporary releases available to UK audiences.
Restriction is the Mother of Invention
This piece tells the important and fascinating story of Sophia Duleep Singh, an Indian princess who was both a prominent suffragette in the UK and god-daughter to Queen Victoria, in an engaging and impressively innovative way.
Black Queer Voices
Brave Beauties shot from 2014 onwards consist of a series of portraits of Trans women, gender non-conforming and non-binary. Many of the women photographed are also beauty pageant contestants. They enter these pageants in order to change the mind set of those present. Those who are often happy to persecute trans-women. So, these images challenge transphobic stereotypes and stigmas.
THE CROWN – PART 2
In the now notorious Oprah Winfrey interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex we saw an image of a highly fractured royal family. It was indeed eerie to see how the tale they told bore uncanny similarities to the one we had just been watching; a dysfunctional family with the added ingredient of charges of racism.
Cinema: Dunkirk, Churchill and the Brexiteers
One year after the shock of Brexit, two of Britain’s best known filmmakers, Christopher Nolan and Joe Wright, released two films about one of the most tragic episodes in British history: the evacuation of the British army from Dunkirk. Could there have been a desire on the part of the two directors to convey a message about the Brexit fiasco by alluding to British resilience at a time when the country is swimming against the European tide?