Fearless: Windrush women speak out. Plus director Q&A

This an African Odysseys screening

Watch Trailer HERE

Fearless follows the stories of six women aged between 78 and 90. As young women they left their homes in the Caribbean, Ireland and South Asia to answer post WWII Britain's call for workers. Using archive footage and photography to interweave pivotal moments in womens' social history with the interviewees' memories of life in Britain

Using archive footage and photography to interweave pivotal moments in womens’ social history with the interviewees’ memories of life in Britain, this film documents the moments and movements that impacted women then and now. They include the Notting Hill uprising and the fight for racial equality in housing and jobs, the immigrant workers’ rights fought for by the Grunwick factory strikers and the lengths mothers went to in order to ensure their children received a proper education.

Today, these women are almost invisible to modern society, but as the film shows, they are still vibrant, engaging and full of mischievous fun.

This screening is followed by a Q&A with the director and producer, Noella Mingo.

A wonderful, sensitive, historical and hilarious documentary of 1960s pioneers which should have been on mainstream channels twenty years ago. Watch with the family, float down memory lane and swim in the living history that is so respectfully captured by the husband and wife team of Noella and Damien.Tony Warner, Black History Walks

A moving and fantastic celebration of women.Robert Elms, BBC Radio London

Society diminishes the older generation when we should be honouring them! It’s great that you are celebrating these wise beautiful souls! Brenda Gilbert, Co-founder, BRON Studios

The cinema is part of the Fellowship Inn a great pub with superb food so have a drink and/or meal before or after the film.https://fellowshipinn.co.uk/the-fellowship-inn/

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This is an African Odysseys screening. Previously at the BFI Southbank for 17 years, African Odysseys is now hosting films across London due to systemic racism at the BFI which ignored a17,000 strong petition and cancelled the popular,monthly programme there. Full details HERE

Other coming films at www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

• 60 years of Struggle Black British Civil Rights, interview with Professor Gus John
• London Recruits, undercover anti-apartheid activists from Islington
• 17 years of walking ,the films of Toyin Agbetu
• City of a Million Dreams
• Reclaiming Cocoa