’12 Years A Slave’ Director Steve McQueen Dedicates New Movies To George Floyd And Black Lives Matter Movement
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deadline.comBy Andreas Wiseman International Editor 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen has dedicated his two movies announced today as part of the Cannes Film Festival lineup to George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Oscar-winning director said of the two films, which address racism in the UK: “I dedicate these films to George Floyd, and all the other black people that have been murdered, seen or unseen, because of who they are, in the U.S., U.K.
and elsewhere. ‘If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.’ Black lives matter.” The films come from the director’s British anthology series Small Axe, which was previously described as a TV series, but is now an anthology of five films which will show on the BBC and Amazon Prime.
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