17 June 2020 The UK race drama received its world festival premiere in June 2018 Afroland TV – the online streaming TV service billed as ‘a Netflix for Africa’ has signed a multi-year deal to carry the award-winning Black British movie ‘No Shade’ on it’s platform tonight from midnight. Based in Texas, USA and founded by […]
17 June 2020 The UK race drama received its world festival premiere in June 2018 Afroland TV – the online streaming TV service billed as ‘a Netflix for Africa’ has signed a multi-year deal to carry the award-winning Black British movie ‘No Shade’ on it’s platform tonight from midnight. Based in Texas, USA and founded by
A series of tweets from a prominent black film executive revealed that the film charity mis-took the identity of a Black British film producer in an obituary which they plagiarised. Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe MBE, the founder of the British Urban Film Festival has condemned BAFTA for declaring their solidarity for the black community after he produced
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2020 December Festival coverage: Vimooz reports – Best Feature Film Award winner: How To Stop a Recurring Dream The Scottish National reports on award nominated ‘In The Red’ Documentary Film News breaks BUFF Awards winners story Fan Carpet breaks BUFF Awards nominees story Screen Daily https://www.screendaily.com/news/british-urban-film-festival-launches-official-selection-on-apple-tv/5155843.article – The Voice newspaper https://www.voice-online.co.uk/entertainment/film/2020/12/18/british-urban-film-festival-found-on-the-apple-tv-app/ – Digital Fix https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/news/the-british-urban-film-festival-launches-on-apple-tv-from-today/
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London, 27/12/2019 22:30 GMT Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe, the man who founded the British Urban Film Festival 14 years ago, has been recognised in the New Year’s honours list with an MBE for ‘services to the Black and minority ethnic film industry’. Anyiam-Osigwe is a familiar face to UK film audiences having spent 17 years working
November 12 2019 Youngs’ directorial debut Two Graves (starring Cathy Tyson, Katie Jarvis, Dave Johns) was released on Netflix in May 2019. Young previously wrote award winning British crime film, Harry Brown (starring Michael Caine) and now follows up with UK/South Africa official co-production action thriller Stolen. The female lead will be played by Marsha Thomason who became a familiar
London, 1st November 2019 Jai Hughes remembered one year on by film producer Shantelle Rochester 12 months on from the murder of teenager Jai Hughes at a chicken shop in Bellingham, South-east London, award winning film producer, actress and CEO of Ida Rose, Shantelle Rochester has launched a self defence social enterprise fund
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One of the UK’s leading private film schools, Met Film, has announced a new partnership with the British Urban Film Festival. Situated next to the iconic Ealing Studios in West London, the school will host 3 days of film and scriptwriting workshop labs plus the annual Live BUFF Script Readings which has previously been staged
Nigeria’s rich and storied film heritage features heavily in this year’s 2019 British Urban Film Festival line-up announced in Central London by BUFF chairman and founder Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe. Both the opening and closing night film selections are directed by Nigerians with Nigerian actors starring in both. The opening night film (screening at Odeon Holloway Road
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The actor and director has been recognised for his 20+ year career in film and television. Actor, writer, producer and director Noel Clarke is to receive the 2019 British Urban Film Festival honorary award in recognition of more than 20 years spent working in the film and TV industry. The 43-year-old, who currently stars alongside
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