Stories of six women aged 78-90. They left their homes in the 50/60s and now tell their extraordinary, true stories of resistance and fun.
This an African Odysseys screening
Fearless follows the stories of six women aged between 78 and 90. As young women they left their homes in the Caribbean, Ireland and South Asia to answer post WWII Britain’s call for workers. Using archive footage and photography to interweave pivotal moments in womens’ social history with the interviewees’ memories of life in Britain
Using archive footage and photography to interweave pivotal moments in womens’ social history with the interviewees’ memories of life in Britain, this film documents the moments and movements that impacted women then and now. They include the Notting Hill uprising and the fight for racial equality in housing and jobs, the immigrant workers’ rights fought for by the Grunwick factory strikers and the lengths mothers went to in order to ensure their children received a proper education.
Today, these women are almost invisible to modern society, but as the film shows, they are still vibrant, engaging and full of mischievous fun.
This screening is followed by a Q&A with the director and producer, Noella Mingo.
A wonderful, sensitive, historical and hilarious documentary of 1960s pioneers which should have been on mainstream channels twenty years ago. Watch with the family, float down memory lane and swim in the living history that is so respectfully captured by the husband and wife team of Noella and Damien.Tony Warner, Black History Walks
A moving and fantastic celebration of women.Robert Elms, BBC Radio London
Society diminishes the older generation when we should be honouring them! It’s great that you are celebrating these wise beautiful souls! Brenda Gilbert, Co-founder, BRON Studios
This film is a testament to the type and quality of films African Odysseys screens as the short film that pairs with Fearless, ‘My Dad, Guyana and Me’, was screened three times in London by African Odysseys and is now selected viewing on Virgin Atlantic flights from the UK to the Caribbean. Similarly, members of the African Odysseys curatorial team were the first to screen Ava Duvernay’s film ‘Middle of Nowhere’ (2012) starring a young David Oyelowo, in the UK and and African Odysseys premiered ‘Hero’ by Frances Anne Solomon at the BFI in 2019 which then went on to get international deals with BBC and Amazon.
Fearless website / Fearless Instagram / They Are Watching Us website / Black History Walks website / Black History Walks Instagram
This is an African Odysseys screening. Previously at the BFI Southbank for 17 years, African Odysseys is now hosting films across London due to systemic racism at the BFI which ignored a18,400 strong petition and cancelled the popular,monthly programme there. Full details HERE
Other coming films at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre: Part of the Roots to Routes season: Stories of migration, memory and reparative justice
The Price of Memory 24th September 6.30pm Tracing the legacy of Reparations. Watch trailer HERE
Other coming events ww.blackhistorywalks.co.uk HERE
- 60 years of Black British Civil Rights Professor Gus John
- Black history Bus tour/ Steam train trip/River cruise
- Frantz Fanon film and talk
- Reparations, new film by 90s TV icon Chrystal Rose
- Remembering Joy Gardner: Black Lives Matter 1993
- Black Women and Film Exhibition
- Graphic Novels: Publishing Black History and movies
- Mayfair, Hackney, Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks
- I fought the law and I won, a Black judge on 60 years of Equality legislation
- Champion Black Boxers and businessmen in 1800s London:
- South Africa’s London Recruits