In this exclusive first look still from 'Alex Wheatle,' one of Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe' anthology of films for the BBC and Amazon, newcomer Shuri Cole plays Wheatle, an award-winning writer who was sentenced to jail following the Brixton riots in 1981.
is crescendoing ahead of the world premiere of three episodes at the New York Film Festival later this month, andThe series explores five stories from within London’s West Indian community between the 1960s and 1980s, with this film telling the true story of Wheatle, an award-winning writer for
young people, and his own remarkable and often humorous journey through the care system, and then to prison following the Brixton Uprising in 1981. In 2008, Wheatle — played by newcomer Sheyi Cole — was awarded a Member of the British Empire honor in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.The four other
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