Blacksheep Archives - Big Picture Film Club https://bigpicturefilmclub.com/tag/blacksheep/ Film & TV News, Movie Reviews & Events Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:00:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://bigpicturefilmclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-Big-Picture-Film-Club-Logo-sq-32x32.jpg Blacksheep Archives - Big Picture Film Club https://bigpicturefilmclub.com/tag/blacksheep/ 32 32 Short Film | Black Sheep https://bigpicturefilmclub.com/short-film-black-sheep/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:43:33 +0000 https://bigpicturefilmclub.com/?p=1579 Everything changed for Cornelius Walker on 27 November 2000 when Damilola Taylor was killed. Damilola was 11, the same age...

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]]> Everything changed for Cornelius Walker on 27 November 2000 when Damilola Taylor was killed. Damilola was 11, the same age as Cornelius. He lived five minutes away. He had the same skin colour. Cornelius’s mother, scared for her son’s safety, moved their family out of London. Cornelius suddenly found himself living on a white estate run by racists. But rather than fight them, Cornelius decided to become more like the people who hated him. They became his family and kept him safe. And in return, Cornelius became submerged in a culture of violence and hatred. But as the violence and racism against other black people continued, Cornelius struggled to marry his real identity with the one he had acquired.

Credits:

Director: Ed Perkins
Producers: Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn
Co-Producer: Vanessa Tovell
Cinematographer: Michael Paleodimos
Produced by Lightbox

Watch the full short film below: 

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