African Student Families

Westminster
1975
Silent
23m

Cinemagazine London Line looks at the support available in London for African students and their families.

Cinemagazine London Line investigates the support available for African overseas students, addressing the questions they might have about childcare while they live and study in London. With up to 190,000 overseas students living in London, the Commonwealth Students Children's Society is on hand to help, explaining their how their services work and the different attitudes to fostering among British and African parents.

The film includes personal accounts from Nigerian and British families on their experiences of foster care.

Black Lives

Portraits of public and private lives against the shifting social climate of 20th century Britain.

Black communities, like many Global majority groups, have long been ill-served by a mainstream British media accustomed to reflecting predominantly white, middle-class lives - a problem entrenched in the second half of the 20th century with the rise of television. Yet a rich tapestry of work from across the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction, film and TV, made for (though not always by) black people, does exist. This selection contains many surprises – some joyous, some sobering, some heartbreaking – and highlights the often painfully slow progress in addressing negative representations and stereotypes on screen. Impassioned and sometimes violent dispatches from the front line in the fight for racial equality can be found here, but so too can records of progress: in the pioneers breaking new ground in culture, politics and sport, and in the more mundane glimpses of everyday life. And this story is not just London’s story: the selection takes a journey around Britain, to a Nigerian wedding in 1960s Cornwall, an ‘African village’ in Essex and a Caribbean restaurant opening in West Bromwich; Newcastle