Steve McQueen will further cement his creative partnership with the BBC by co-directing a documentary series on three dramatic events in the UK in 1981 that defined race relations for a generation.Titled Uprising, the three-part series will examine the intertwined events of the New Cross Fire that killed 13 Black teenagers at a house party in January 1981; the Black People’s Day of Action mass protest in March of that year; and finally, the Brixton riots in April.McQueen will helm Uprising alongside James Rogan (Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation), with the latter’s Rogan Productions housing the series.
It is the second project McQueen and Rogan are collaborating on after teaming for BBC films Black Power and Subnormal, which were
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