Next instalment from Testimonies, the programme I've been curating, is screening this weekend on We Are Parable player! 👇🏾 Two really special works, and a lovely introduction from artist-filmmaker Beverley Bennett, director of 'Amine'. (Supported by TheDocSociety)

Here it is - we're thrilled to reveal the full #SheffDocFest2022 programme! We invite you to ReConnect with documentary - and each other - in #Sheffield 23-28 June💥🚀⚡️ Tickets are on sale now - Explore the programme →sheffdocfest.com/festival/2022/…

🚨No refugees will be deported to Rwanda tonight 🚨 This is what people power looks like. You are all incredible! Together we CAN and we WILL fight the #AntiRefugeeLaws ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾

REFUGEES WELCOME REFUGEES WELCOME REFUGEES WELCOME Today. Tomorrow. Always.

"I believe the Government’s primary goal is to make asylum seekers’ lives unbearable." On the morning after the night before, read Bsmah's blog from last month on the impact the Rwanda plan has on people currently in the asylum system. #StopTheFlights refugee-action.org.uk/rwanda-priti-p…

Unite's 'profiteering report' has uncovered the corporations who have profited from the crisis. It’s not workers who are pushing up inflation; it’s often their employers. Workers should not be the ones who pay for it! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Why is the media so out of touch with working-class communities? Because the profession itself is so socially exclusive. Just 7% of Brits are privately educated yet 43% of the 100 most influential news editors & broadcasters and 44% of newspaper columnists went to private schools

Solstice sun is shining on #Sheffield today! looking forward to sharing with audiences some beauts from the program & moderating some juicy chats in the coming week Sheffield DocFest

Mick Lynch giving me life this morning - YES to that energy in the face of a warped media doing the work of a corrupt billionaire government … #WorkersUnite #BillionairesFuckOff #ToryFascistDictatorship #HostileEnvironment

The Durban FilmMart Institute has extended the deadline for the animation projects in development for the 2023 Pitch and Finance Forum. Applicants are encouraged to submit their projects by Friday , 04th November 2022 at 23:59 CAT Apply here👉 durbanfilmmart.co.za/pitch-and-fina…

If you stream Criterion Channel, I recommend its collection The Beautiful Game: International Football Films. Freedom Fields, a doc by Naziha نزيهة about the brave Libyan women trying to play the sport they love in post-revolutionary Libya & beyond, is riveting & beautifully filmed.

I’m excited to announce that I’ve found the controversial aisle of my local grocery store. Who wore it best?

💕 FREEDOM FIELDS is back on the Criterion Channel ⚽️ Go check out these 11 films of The Beautiful Game! ✨ Btw I LOVE the context in which this series came about @_Ash_Clark Eric Hynes

This🧵!We need far more visibility on this issue of “Britishness”in UK funding structures & how it does not match the supposed outward message of D&I & representation. 👉🏽“The people most affected by this country's spiral towards racist extremism have the least power to resist it”

The climate of British cinema shrewdly and succinctly expressed.

“[T]hose of us who want to meaningfully engage with our national culture aren’t allowed to”

So I got busy.

Palestinian filmmakers, apply to be part of the delegation to Sheffield Doc Fest: palestinefilminstitute.org/en/sheffield-2…

Reminder: Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the face while doing her job. She was a Palestinian Christian. Then her funeral procession across Jerusalem was attacked. The pallbearers were beaten walking through Jerusalem and her coffin was almost dropped, all on live television.