BBC Commemorating Five Years Since George Floyd’s Death With Feature Doc
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The BBC and Dartmouth Films are commemorating five years since the death of George Floyd with a feature doc that will be given a theatrical release.
BACKLASH: The Murder of George Floyd [working title] will feature interviews with members of Floyd’s family, Chief Medaria Arradondo, the Minneapolis Police Chief who took the bold step of testifying against one of his own officers, and then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s closest advisor on race Samuel Kasumu.
The doc comes five years after Floyd was murdered by a white police officer, which was the catalyst for the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020.
At a time when diversity initiatives in the U.S. are being scrapped by President Trump’s decree, and Elon Musk is retweeting Ben Shapiro’s call for the police officer who murdered Floyd to be pardoned, the film explores how Floyd’s death became one of the most significant moments in modern history, a true reckoning.
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