Menelik Shabazz Dies: Pioneering Filmmaker Of Black British Cinema Was 67
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deadline.comMenelik Shabazz, the impactful British filmmaker, has died at the age of 67. The news has been widely circulated on social media, with numerous people who worked closely with the director confirming his passing and adding tributes today.According to arts website alt-africa, he died in Zimbabwe on June 28.
No cause of death was given.Born in Barbados in 1954, Shabazz moved to the UK at the age of six. He began experimenting with filmmaking while at college in London and made his first step into his career with the 1976 short Step Forward Youth, a 30-minute documentary about Black youths in London.After gigs directing television, he embarked on his first feature, Burning An Illusion, which he wrote and directed.
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