Steve McQueen to direct documentary collection Uprising
By Express News Service
Steve McQueen, who not too long ago directed the acclaimed British anthology movie collection Small Axe for BBC, will as soon as once more group up with the community to direct a documentary collection titled Uprising. Billed as a three-part docuseries, Uprising will observe three seminal occasions of 1981 which redefined race relations within the UK.
Interestingly, two of those occasions — the gathering of 20,000 folks on Black People’s Day of Action and the Brixton riots that occurred the next month — acted as constructing blocks for the Alex Wheatle section in Small Axe. It is anticipated that Uprising will take a deeper take a look at these occasions that influenced race relations within the UK.
Filmmaker James Rogan, identified for helming the BBC documentary mini-series Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation, will probably be co-directing Uprising. Rogan and McQueen have beforehand served as govt producers on BBC’s Black Power and Subnormal.