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The African American Film Critics Association on Tuesday set its Special Achievement Honorees to be feted at the third annual AAFCA TV Honors August 21. They include Steve McQueen, Wanda Sykes, Naomi Ackie and Michaela Coel. "We couldn't be prouder to bestow AAFCA's highest honors to this remarkable group of honorees…

"This trial is about more than just our freedom," declares Letitia Wright's Altheia Jones-LeCointe to the unsteady Shaun Parkes-portrayed Frank Crichlow in Small Axe: Mangrove. "What is being called into question in this case is the right of anybody, not just Black people, but the right of anybody to demonstrate," the…

When Steve McQueen set out to create and direct Small Axe, he seized the opportunity to work for the first time with costume designer Jacqueline Durran. A two-time Oscar winner (for Little Women and Anna Karenina) and six-time nominee, Durran is among the most decorated costume designers working today. (Just…

Sheffield Doc/Fest, the key UK documentary event, has revealed its full line-up for this year, including an international competition comprised of 11 features. Those titles are: Charm Circle by Nira Burstein (USA, World Premiere); Rancho by Pedro Speroni (Argentina, World Premiere); Factory to the Workers by Srđan…

Director Steve McQueen won a Best Picture Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, was nominated for Best Director and has an impressive filmography that includes such acclaimed independently made movies as Hunger and Shame, as well as big studio projects such as Widows. Yet perhaps his most ambitious project, Small Axe, is also…

Steve McQueen will further cement his creative partnership with the BBC by co-directing a documentary series on three dramatic events in the UK in 1981 that defined race relations for a generation. Titled Uprising, the three-part series will examine the intertwined events of the New Cross Fire that killed 13 Black…

ATX Television Festival revealed the first handful of titles set to take center stage for its virtual season 10 event. Showtime’s Ziwe, Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and Fox’s HouseBroken will be among the featured titles for the annual television event, which will run from June 11 to 20. The 2021 edition will be the…

Not since the Manchester By the Sea year of 2017 has Amazon Studios generated as many as the 10 Golden Globes nominations it received Wednesday morning. The noms came from a diverse number of films — three for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (nods for Best Picture, Sacha Baron Cohen for Best Actor and Maria Bakalova for…

Steve McQueen is to executive produce two documentaries for the BBC that were conceived while shooting Small Axe. One will examine Black power in Britain, while the second film investigates how Black children in the 1960s and 1970s were disproportionately sent to schools for the so-called “educationally subnormal.” Bla…

More than 40 key figures from the film industry have written to UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak calling for more support for UK cinema, which they say is “standing on the edge of an abyss” as a result of the pandemic. The industry leaders, including Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen, Ridley Scott, Jude Law and Bond producers…

The careers of Ryan Murphy and Steve McQueen will be celebrated at next month’s Gotham Awards. The Independent Filmmaker Project, which produces the Gothams, said McQueen will receive a Director's Tribute, and Murphy will receive the Industry Tribute. Due to Covid-19, the January 11 ceremony will still take place at…

Steve McQueen's Small Axe portmanteau of five roughly hourlong films centered on racial issues in second-half 20th century UK wraps up with Education, which, at the end of the day, is what the series is all about: education in terms of the efforts of different segments of the population to begin to understand each…