Ceddo’s 1985 documentary on the Broadwater Farm uprising, told by the community who lived it and pulled from Channel 4 before broadcast.

The People’s Account looks at the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham after the 1985 uprising, told from the point of view of the Black community who live there.

The film ran into trouble immediately. The Independent Broadcasting Authority objected to its description of the police as racist, lawless terrorists, and to its framing of the uprising as a legitimate act of self-defence.

The IBA demanded editorial changes, the filmmakers refused, and the film was pulled from the schedules, intended never to be shown on British television. It has since earned the members of the Ceddo Film and Video Workshop collective, Menelik Shabazz and Milton Bryan among them, a place in British film history.

RUNNING ORDER

Doors: 7:00pm

The People’s Account: 7:30pm - 8:20pm

Pay what you feel, £5 suggested. Bring your own drinks.

Also in the season: Behind the Rent Strike (Tue 27 Oct) and Land and Freedom (Tue 3 Nov).

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