John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film
director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent,
whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic
form finds expression in all his films".A founder of the Black Audio
Film Collective in 1982, he made his début as a director with
Handsworth Songs (1986), which examined the fallout from the 1985
Handsworth riots. Handsworth Songs went on to win the Grierson Award
for Best Documentary in 1987.In the words of The Guardian, he "has
secured a reputation as one of the UK’s most pioneering film-makers
[whose] poetic works have grappled with race, identity and
post-colonial attitudes for over three decades."
director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent,
whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic
form finds expression in all his films".A founder of the Black Audio
Film Collective in 1982, he made his début as a director with
Handsworth Songs (1986), which examined the fallout from the 1985
Handsworth riots. Handsworth Songs went on to win the Grierson Award
for Best Documentary in 1987.In the words of The Guardian, he "has
secured a reputation as one of the UK’s most pioneering film-makers
[whose] poetic works have grappled with race, identity and
post-colonial attitudes for over three decades."
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