Menelik Shabazz (30 May 1954 – 28 June 2021)[1][2] was a Barbados-born British film director, producer, educator, and writer, acknowledged as a pioneer in the development of independent Black British cinema,[3] having been at the forefront of contemporary British filmmaking for more than 30 years. Shabazz is best known for the 1981 film Burning an Illusion, his first feature. He was also co-founder in the 1980s of Kuumba film production company and Ceddo Film and Video Workshop, as well as being "founding father of the BFM media project"[4] as the publisher of Black Filmmaker Magazine (BFM) and creator of BFM International Film Festival.[5]
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^"Pioneering film-maker Menelik Shabazz dies". The Voice. 29 June 2021.
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^Sergio, "Crowdfund This: 'Looking for Love' - Menelik Shabazz's New Documentary on Black Love & Relationships", Shadow & Act, 25 November 2014.
MenelikShabazz (30 May 1954 – 28 June 2021) was a Barbados-born British film director, producer, educator, and writer, acknowledged as a pioneer in the...
Burning an Illusion is a 1981 British film written and directed by MenelikShabazz, about a young British-born black woman's love life, mostly shot in...
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of the market and associated amenities in 2005. Several scenes in MenelikShabazz's film Burning an Illusion (1981) were filmed on the road, including...
as a talking head in the film The Story of Lovers Rock directed by MenelikShabazz. Additionally he has contributed to several radio and television documentaries...
of new talent, with films such as Franco Rosso's Babylon (1980), MenelikShabazz's Burning an Illusion (1981) and Po-Chih Leong's Ping Pong (1986; one...
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1979), and MenelikShabazz's Burning an Illusion (1981) represented the diversity and innovation...
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