Jemima and Johnny 1966 film


Jemima and Johnny was a short film made in 1966 about the racial tensions in Britain at the time. 

'The friendship of a young white boy and a black girl reaches out across the generations in this uplifting mid-60s short, directed by South African-born actor and anti-Apartheid activist Lionel Ngakane. Against a background media narrative suggesting ever-worsening racial tensions, Jemima + Johnny offered a refreshingly optimistic take on black/white relations in a post-riots Notting Hill. Jemima + Johnny won its director an award at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, the first black British film to be so honoured.

When five-year-old white boy Johnny meets Jemima, fresh off the boat from Jamaica, he leads her on a wide-eyed tour of the local neighbourhood. But when the children recklessly make their den in a derelict house, their peril causes Johnny's father to question his racist views.' - taken from the BFI 

I really really enjoyed this film it was filmed very much like the BFI's Shadows of Progress 
where you get an insight into the locals lives and is shot with the same conversational tones as 
the kitchen sink films but is concerned with a much more important and concerning issue. 


 

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