I started out making films for television after training as an apprentice clapper loader in the film industry. When I finished my training I worked on a number of jobs as a camera assistant/focus puller and then pitched an idea to the Synchro Scheme for first time filmmakers – that was Ragga Gyal D’bout!.
The climate in television at that time in the 90’s was very encouraging for new filmmakers to make authored works. I didn’t realise at the time that it was the end of a political process that had begun 10 years previously. So I was very fortunate to have made these programmes at all.
Reservoir of Gods 1997 25 mins BBC
Distributor:BlackmanVision
Documentary on the Nation of Islam artist Faisal Abdu’Allah.
Viva Tabatha 1996 25 mins Channel 4 Television
Documentary on the provocative French ex-porn queen Tabatha Cash.
Black Divas 1996 25 mins Channel 4 Television (Co-Producer)
Documentary on Black divas and their gay fans
Shades of Desire 1995 15 mins Channel 4 Television (Producer)
Docu-drama on the sexual desire between women of different races.
Gospel Posse 1995 15 mins Channel 4 Television
Documentary on Christian Fundamentalist teenagers.
Body and Soul 1994 25 mins ITV
Distributor: BlackmanVision
Documentary on people who use their bodies for work.
BD Women 19 mins 1994 Channel 4 Television
Distributor: Women Make Movies
Stylised documentary on the black lesbian lives from the 60’s to the 90’s. Includes interviews and dramatisation of fiction buch adday and her jazz singer woman based on Black lesbian stories from Harlem in the 1920’s.
Ragga Gyal D’bout! 1993 5 mins ITV
Distributor: BlackmanVision
Documentary on the outrageous female fans of ragga – dancehall music.
