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Talks with Russell Tovey, David France and Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor announced for BFI Flare This year’s BFI Flare offers a programme of free events and discussions for audiences around the world. 17 March 2021 Russell Tovey © Photo by Jason Dimmock The 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, which launches today, is thrilled to announce a new Screen Talk with stage, film and television actor Russell Tovey and, as part of BFI Flare’s The Makers series, conversations with award-winning filmmaker, journalist and author David France (Welcome to Chechnya) and writer-producer Joy Gh...

B  ‘I want to be a role model,’ says ernardine Evaristo emphatically. ‘And an inspiration. Because my background, it’s not, you know, a white background. It’s not upper-class; it’s not privileged; it’s not Oxbridge. I come from a large, working-class, mixed-race family growing up in suburbia. The things that have happened to my career this last year have been absolutely wonderful, but people shouldn’t forget that it’s been a very, very long journey.’ The 61-year-old winner of the 2019 Booker Prize sits at a 10-seat distance from me (it’s before the latest lockdown), in ...

Writer Alex Wheatle, photographed for the Observer last year. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer As historian and writer Paul Gilroy writes in the introduction to Wheatle’s book: “This novel’s historical and geographical setting should be carefully specified. It can be defined by the immediate aftermath of the New Cross Massacre.” The thriller, which culminates in the Brixton riots, begins on 27 January 1981 and follows the life of Biscuit and his sticky relationship to the streets and crime. Wheatle explores the realities of what it meant to be young, poor and black in the 80s, s...

DJ, father remembered as 'larger than life' after long battle with COVID-19, complications Tommy 'Jammer' Muzzillo died on Monday at the age of 51 after a long battle with COVID-19 complications Author: James Grant (12NewsNow), Raegan Gibson Published: 6:57 PM CST January 6, 2021 Updated: 8:01 PM CST January 6, 2021 BEAUMONT, Texas — Friends and colleagues are remembering a beloved Southeast Texas DJ who died after a long battle with COVID-19 and its complications.  Whether you were fortunate enough to meet him in person, or heard him on the ...

The Art of Queer Support in 2020 This year has shown many of us the importance of community-building, but for queer artists it isn’t just about mirroring an existing public sphere In June 2020, London’s Cell Project Space posted hundreds of fluorescent-yellow envelopes to addresses in the UK and abroad. Each contained a photocopy of a handwritten letter that described the feeling of being drenched by ‘the waterfall of the world’, plus a vial housing a scent recalling the smell of sweat, mould and damp. For recipients outside the UK, the vial had been removed by the ...