Joy Elias-Rilwan

Shakespeare’s tale of psychological turmoil and familial destruction is brought vividly to life in this Black Theatre Live production, in association with Watford Palace Theatre and Stratford Circus Arts Centre. Captured live at Tara Theatre in south London, this production marked the first time an all-black cast presented Shakespeare’s classic tragedy in the UK. The seminal performance is followed by a Q&A session with director Jeffery Kissoon and Jatinder Verma MBE, Artistic Director of Tara Arts.

Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian single mother to son Sammy, is under pressure from her family to find a suitable husband and who better than the local Reverend? After making friends with Matthew, a British comic-book writer and one of his heros, Sammy has other ideas. He successfully plots to get them together but they've still a few obsticles to overcome. (from Amazon)

A golden floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl living in England, Ama, rediscovers her African identity. She learns its contents at the office where her mother cleans. The disk, through magic realism and by way of ancestors, warns her of the dangers of forgetting one's heritage.

The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious State Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison. This should have meant certain death, but, along with his cell mates, army officers who had come under suspicion of organizing a coup, he escaped and made it on foot to Nairobi. This TV movie is based on Wycliffe Kato's own account in his book "Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse".

L'action se déroule dans l'aile G de la prison pour femmes de Larkhall. Nous suivons le quotidien des condamnées mais aussi celui des membres du personnel. La série met en lumière les difficultés que représente la vie dans une prison pour femmes, autant au niveau pratique qu'humain. Elle n'hésite pas à aborder un certain nombre de thèmes polémiques comme par exemple le fait que les autorités britanniques continuent d'utiliser des gardiens de sexe masculin dans les ailes féminines ou bien les traumatismes liés à la séparation des détenues d'avec leurs enfants pourtant parfois nés en prison pendant le temps de leur incarcération. Les conflits entre les détenues et les gardiens sont le quotidien de Larkhall et les directeurs qui se succèdent doivent gérer aussi bien les dérapages des gardiens que les humeurs des détenues. Les conflits liés aux abus de pouvoir exercés sur les détenues ou entre les membres du personnel perturbent régulièrement la gestion de la prison.