00:00:10 Growing Up 00:02:05 School in Barbados 00:02:50 The ‘Cowboy Cinema’ 00:03:34 Leaving Barbados 00:04:45 Arriving In London 1961

00:06.40 School in London in the 1960’s and the pressure of assimilation 00:08:35 Tennis Whites and Black Power 00:11.05 Thomas Braithwaite becomes a Menelik Shabazz. Joining the Black Liberation Front and becoming an activist 00:13:06 Not getting into Art School but discovering the PortaPak 00:14:34 Experimenting with style by making my first film in Ridley Market 00:16:32 Six Months at London Film School 00:18:40 Step Forward Youth, 1977 00:20:56 Step Forward Youth at the festival of Black Arts and Culture in Nigeria 00:22:05 Entering the world of TV 00:22:54 Making a documentary about the SUS law for ATV 00:24:18 BreakingPoint, 1978. Breaking new ground 00:26:39 The power and the problem with the mainstream 00:27:46 Developing Burning an Illusion 1978 with financial support from the BFI 00:29:25 Documenting the New Cross fire. Blood Ah Go Run, 1981 00:30:51 Establishing a Video Workshop 00:31:37 Ceddo Film and Video Workshop 00:33:08 Broadwater Farm and making The People’s Account, 1986 00:35:53 Time and Judgement, 1988 and the end of the Channel Four Workshops 00:37:15 Establishing Black Filmmaker Magazine and the
Black Filmmakers Festival 00:39:26 Where’s Your Voice? Filmmaking today