{"id":1135,"date":"2016-10-05T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2016-11-18T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T13:32:52","slug":"black-history-month-screenings-at-the-university-of-portsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month screenings at the University of Portsmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black History Month<\/strong> screenings start this evening at the University of Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full programme.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Eldon Building, University of Portsmouth (hosted by Portsmouth Film Society)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Wednesday, 5 October, 7pm<\/h5>\n<h5>GONE BY TOO FAR (2013), UK \u00a088min<\/h5>\n<p>(opening film event- supported by UoP and staff Multicultural Network) pre-drinks reception at 6.30pm<\/p>\n<p>When London teenager Yemi\u2019s big brother comes to live with him from Nigeria, Ikudayisi\u2019s terrible\u00a0fashion sense, broad Yoruba accent and misplaced confidence with the opposite sex threaten to\u00a0destroy Yemi\u2019s already small amount of street cred. When the pair are forced to spend the day\u00a0together on their Peckham estate Yemi is forced to confront local bullies, the unattainable girl of\u00a0his dreams and his own African heritage, eventually teaching both of them the values of family and\u00a0self-respect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Wednesday, 12th October, 7pm<br \/>\nTHE HARD STOP (2016), 85min \u00a0UK \u2013 Documentary<\/h5>\n<p>\u201cThe Hard Stop\u201d is an intimate\u00a0documentary revealing the story, away from all the press coverage,\u00a0of Mark Duggan\u2019s friends and family following his death. He was shot and killed in a Hard Stop\u00a0police procedure in 2011, sparking the most violent riots in recent British history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Wednesday, 19th October<\/h5>\n<h5>PRESSURE \u00a0(1976) UK, 120 min<br \/>\n(Supported by UoP and Student Union)<\/h5>\n<p>As London school-leaver Tony attempts to secure employment, he becomes entangled in boiling\u00a0cultural tensions between the white establishment and his Jamaican background. Still the seminal\u00a0portrait of the pressures faced by immigrants in Britain, this remains a caustic denouncement of\u00a0institutional racism. Raw performances and confrontational politics power the first British film\u00a0made by a black director \u2026 do not miss out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black History Month screenings start this evening at the University of Portsmouth. Here is the full programme. Location: Eldon Building, University of Portsmouth (hosted by Portsmouth Film Society) &nbsp; Wednesday, 5 October, 7pm GONE BY TOO FAR (2013), UK \u00a088min &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[174,132],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfps-events","tag-black-history-month","tag-film-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}