SAT 06 SEPTEMBER TABERNACLE Time & Judgement: 1958 Remembered 6pm Portobello Film Festival 2008 remembers the 1958 Race Riots and how they led to Anti-Racism being on the establishment agenda. Curated and presented by Colin Prescod and Menelik Shabazz, featuring a lively debate (8pm) BFM International Film Festival is the largest black world cinema event in the UK. The 10th Anniversary festival will take place between 7th – 17th November 2008 at venues which include the BFI Southbank, the British Museum, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Stratford Circus. Between 35 – 60 films, from all genres including features, documentaries, shorts and animation films, will be screened. Writer/Director/Producer Menelik is the founder of bfm magazine and International Film Festival. He has been working in the British film industry since he left the International Film School in 1975. He has produced work independently as well as in television producing programmes for and Channel Four. Step Forward Youth (Dir: Menelik Shabazz, 25 min) It’s 1976, first generation young people of West Indian descent give their views on growing up in England. Shot both in Ladbroke Grove and Brixton, featuring Drummie Zeb of Aswad. From You Were Black You Were Out (Director: Colin Prescod 45mins) Made in the early ‘80s, this local history film accounts the experiences of the Black community of Ladbroke Grove. Interviews with key players describe the arrival of early settlers, the ‘race riots’ of 1958, the role of Claudia Jones and her West Indian Gazette in priming the Notting Hill Carnival. A study of racism in the words of those who faced and fought it, the film gives inspiring insight into a defining moment of North Kensington’s history. Blacks Britannica (Director David Koff, 1978) outraged the establishment on both sides of the Atlantic and is one of the most suppressed films ever made in this country. As soon as it was completed, it was put under legal injunction so that it could only be screened guerrilla-style in community and activist venues. It was chopped up, scrambled and re-edited with over 80 changes by the commissioning editors at WGBH, Boston, before they dared network it to an American audience. They then fought the filmmakers for three and a half years in the US courts. The film was attacked in Parliament and was the subject of embarrassed denials by the British Consulate in New York. Time & Judgement (Menelik Shabazz) Voices from the Grove back to schedule