AWARD WINNING filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon welcomed both Ansel Wong CBE and Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe MBE into the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival (WCFF) fold this week.
The WCFF announced that Wong and Anyiam-Osigwe are joining its team as it gears up to mark the 75th Anniversary of Windrush in June.Anyiam-Osigwe is well known in the film and wider cultural communities as the Founder of British Urban Film Festival which launched in 2005 as the only showcase for urban independent cinema in the UK.
On this announcement, he said said: “I am excited to be working with the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival at such a pivotal moment in British history. The 75 th anniversary of Windrush in June will be a once in a generation moment. Born in Trinidad and UK based since the 1960s, Wong is a cultural historian, community leader, political activist and leader of several public and charitable organisations who uses art to affect social change and racial justice.
“I look forward to making a contribution to elevate the creativity of the Caribbean and its diaspora”.
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