The BBC has dropped the first trailer for Steve McQueen's Small Axe anthology series to mark 50 years since London’s Mangrove protest, when Black people demonstrated against police harassment.
The trailer focuses on Mangrove, one of five self-contained episodes in McQueen's series, which tells the story of the protest…
EXCLUSIVE: Above is the first sneak peek of John Boyega in Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated series Small Axe, which will drop on the BBC and Amazon later this year.
McQueen’s anthology drama, which has been in the works since 2014, tells five stories from within London's West Indian community between the 1960s and…
12 Years A Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen has called out "blatant racism" in the UK's film and TV industries.
Writing in an op-ed for newspaper The Observer, the Oscar winner said he was tired of listening to excuses and hoping for action. He stated that the UK is "far behind" the U.S. in representing black and ethnic…
12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen has dedicated his two movies announced today as part of the Cannes Film Festival lineup to George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Oscar-winning director said of the two films, which address racism in the UK: "I dedicate these films to George Floyd, and all the…
EXCLUSIVE: Micheal Ward, theTop Boy and Blue Story actor who has been nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star award, has secured a major role in Steve McQueen’s BBC and Amazon drama Small Axe.
Ward will play one of the two leads in the third episode of the anthology drama, which tells five stories from within London's…
The BBC has unveiled the first images of Small Axe, its period drama from 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen. Amazon is co-producing in the U.S.
The series, which is set in London's West Indian community between the 1960s-’80s, stars Black Panther's Letitia Wright and Star Wars' John Boyega
Malachi Kirby (Roots)…
Black Panther star Letitia Wright and Star Wars‘ John Boyega will lead cast in Steve McQueen’s upcoming BBC TV drama Small Axe, about London’s West Indian community between the 1960s-80s. As we reported yesterday, Amazon is co-producing in the U.S.
Production is now underway on location in London. Also starring are Mal…
