Akua Gyamfi

Episode 2 of The Reel Story Podcast is here, with Akua Gyamfi as our guest this week. Akua is the woman behind The British Blacklist and SOUL festival, a multi award-winning media outlet for Black British creatives working in the screen industry. In this episode, Akua talks to us about her own career experiences, from motherhood acting as a catalyst, to her decision to champion black narratives within the industry, and the ways in which systems of hierarchy operate to prevent certain content from being made. We then focus on a film that is personal to Akua: ‘Farming’ an auto-biographical drama about a British-Nigerian boy who is ‘farmed out’ by his parents to a white British family. The conversation is informative, relevant, and raises important questions to do with how structural and systemic racism operates within the entertainment industry. It is also important to note that this was recorded prior to the killing of George Floyd and the uprisings around the BLM movement. If you enjoy our podcast - and would like to support us - we would kindly ask that you make a donation to one of the Black Lives Matter charities.

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Akua Gyamfi is an episode from The Reel Story by Breaking Through The Lens.

This episode is 00:31:16 long.

This episode was published on Jun 20, 2020.

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