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. for i grew up in a shop and the threat of the national front was ever present. you never knew who was going to come through the door and sort of knife your parents or whatever. in those early days it was a real battle to do something other than what i was supposed to do. because i was in the field as a faith that what music should have. there's always this push isn't there between what is mainstream and what is marginal. sadly, you know, the margin stuff is often the most exciting. ah, the wider mac tremors, lovely with the clouds. i'm going to chatter, i'm a writer, director, producer gods f, f,

f a my name is skin and i'm the lead singer. and so i saw a multi 1000000 federal christy shock brand gun. can i see that? i'm also a d. j. good can both get and i a 2nd generation immigrants who had to do with our fair share a racism and sexism growing up uses, getting in. and you're sitting here watching the boy grew in this films are huge box of his hits, but she have never compromised on her message. empowering women challenging racism and giving a voice to people of color with i still remember skins arrival on the roxie. she was one of the 1st black women to

front a real bad. she was audacious. she was fearless. she was just incredible. as women, we've both forge new paths in the walls of cinema and music, quoting for quality, diversity and inclusion. we share so many influences and experiences really looking forward to talking to her. oh thank skin what an absolute honor to meet you fellow loved her like me feel the same way and give a family part of our vaccines across a lot. oh, well, i'm thrilled that you've published you'll memoir. yeah, it takes blood and guts wine now. in the ninety's, you know,

everything was so fast and there was so much going on. and if you were a kid growing up, now when you were reflecting on the ninety's, you would think it was just so white mouth dominated air were full of like boy bands and boy rock bands. and there was nothing else going on. but actually my impression of the ninety's and what was happening that time was like, you know, german base was huge. yes r and b was huge years. so what have you met? oh, my head. i think that in some ways those things were kind of more representative . i'm more important to have be more influential, more inspiring. yeah. than britpop in my opinion. i would say you can draw a line from goldie to storm. see. yeah, i know the way you get to dub stepan to step below these musical style. yeah. that and i think that found is much more influential to what's going out now. so if you think about racism biggest weapon may have is making us invisible or making what we've done. invisible. yeah, i thought, well, if i don't write it,

i don't jump on it, then nobody's going to and it's like we didn't exist. absolutely. i think we would, would you remember of that? but when you say britpop, because everyone thinks of blur and always, and possibly spice girls here. but you're right. what was really going on, as you say, we go the, the beginnings of all the kind of what was then called underground music scene of written text, london. yeah, you know, it has stayed the course either and it was a dizzy who represented us at the ethics. right. exactly. yeah. moment for all of us. yeah. yeah. so yeah, there's always this push isn't there between what is mainstream and what is marginal. yeah, and sadly, you know, the margin stuff is often the most exciting and innovative, you know, and gets lost because it's so easy to use labels. you think it's because, you know, i was the one that we had for b, u fighters and battle. try to get in there,

you know, for me, in those early days it was a real battle to do something other than what i was supposed to do because of, i was a fin as a face that rock music should have absolutely. yeah. well i, i made 3 films in the ninety's. yeah. my 1st a bunch of the beach. yeah. 93. and you were absolutely right. i mean it, that's not all domain. i wasn't supposed to be a filmmaker. i had a chris teacher at school. yeah. who, when i said i want to go to university here, you said it will really fit. you should try secretary college. what is it we crave? teaches an, an i what i mean. i went through teacher and it was a 1st person i blurted out my wildest, she, i wanted to be a photojournalist. i was being a jump to jumping out by helicopter. where the be camera thing, where's the action? and i told all these james and then she, we slowly push this form in front of you think about the 1st and i looked down and it was her an application for worse. oh no, i was like, well,

i'm already working with a fad, a job. yeah. you know, well, i think the, the, the biggest surprise, even after 30 years of filmmaking is people's expectations of what you can actually do yet, what they feel you can do. and yes, that curious teacher was wrong because it, but i thank her because soon she said, you need to be a secretary that spurred me on say, well, i'll show you. and i finally had this. i will also you who's your next step. after that, i went to university before that though what it started happening with me. so late seventy's i, you know, i was around during the troubles if you like. the riots are in london and manchester burning. i mean everywhere. and i had a kind of a physical whitening. basically i grew up in a shop and the threat of the national front was ever present. you never knew who is

going to come through the door and sort of knife your parents or whatever. but it was always their attention. yeah, they've been an nf march in lewisham and people we knew shopkeepers who'd been be to the op and all that door smashed. and so when ruffians racism started for me, it was like, oh this is, this is the 1st kind of public youthful, a response to the national front, a sort of collective thing. and that was your hunting point, and that that was what you me, you can enjoy in. i remember with a new cross fire happened, which was a terrible event where he's about teenagers or having a party. and somebody fire bombed at the house and it goes, it went up in flames. and i went on the march and it was the 1st march i went and was a new cross fire march. and i remember going, you know, with all these people who angry and they were young people, british born people of black, asian, wherever. and that gave me

a real sense of strength at she being on that march against racism. i felt a lot more empowered. i'm from brexton foe. the bricks and rice is the thing that really kind of made me political. that's what i call my festive identity from because i remember being very small and not feeling english at all. and it's because of a fighter i was living in and everything i saw in a news and whatever, you know, you know, english or english or black. so you're not from here, you're from where your parents are from. i'm i remember feeling very you may, can, i was have a little patois, bam. you know, i mean, and yes, mom and i went to jamaica i'm, i was such a fish out of water. i remember going to the, the market in mandy for which is the middle of jamaica. i didn't understand anything. anybody said to me. i don't be coming back to england. i mean, i loved being there. i mean, i felt roots, i felt everything, and music was amazing. i came back to england and realized that i'm something different. i didn't feel jamaican anymore. yeah. we were 1st generational blood

pressure people. yeah. i'm, we had to really find our way. absolutely will. same thing happened where i grew up, which was south all the way. and the asian community, southall, of course, had his own, you know, issues with the national from that. but the community stood up, you know, and there is what people turn the self will rise, but i call it the self up ising where people said no way, fascist, i'm not going to march our streets. and in a big of sites ensued and, and the, the young agent bent down the nf pub, the hammer to have it. so that gave the community a brick us sense of identity, i think, and confidence. but it was also the beginning of the breaking between the parents generation. you were the ones who come to england. we wanted to keep quiet and just work hard, you know, and provide their kids between young people who was say, well, hold on. i mean, it went on it's at the same sh fiesta parents. take it. yeah. you know,

we're going to fight back. so i was kind of a young then to be part of that. but, but i stand on their shoulders. yeah, actually, i mean, i think that when my parents came over every day was surviving and you know, they came up with qualifications, they could do all the different jobs. they came to england like, oh no, you have to re qualify. yeah, and i think of just about putting food on the table and just getting through the day, absent and then we come along and we're part of it with pretty flexible as he of like well why should we be quiet? why should we just stand by? yeah, i kind of grab, grab hold of the fact that i was this new thing which was black, british. yeah. and as a whole new identity, the music of the time lovers, rock hill that was very british to make it was our own found. yeah. you know, it was our own version of reggae music can be music. i mean, for me, the beginning of my music history was the connection. i got because my, my grand dad had a nightclub. oh, i'm

a lot cooler. she bean is colby f residential club. no, but it was, and i remember growing, growing up with the scarf feed and then that comes along bad nerves since the specials. and that's why i got the connection because it was like my grand as music and my parents music. but then this british music, amazing, and that's how i kind of segue into british societies and music. same with me. i mean, my bands, it was the time i saw a band that i related to that black and white, yet he played it together. that was the thing for me in an appreciative way, not in appropriating. i let him, there were like a communion, a group, or a culture together. and then for me jumping forward a little bit from that was the british bunker, a c. r. so really bunger scene happened that was it for me, inflation, there was this fantastic fusion of bunger music, reggae rock house, in jazz,

everything all came over and i remember thinking, wow, this is amazing because this has been created by us for us. but for everyone to enjoy. and so i made my 1st film, i'm british, but because it was the 1st consolidation for me of what a british indian identity was. and that easy then went on to change the landscape of music in indian films here. you know, i had a massive impact, but, but for me, i'm ever grateful to it because it, it gave me a sense of what being british and indian men because you but you, you were born in i robi, of what i saw her point upside. we've also got her richie from her african. absolutely. so my mom and dad were born in kenya as well. my a great uncle was asked by the british to leave her punjab where he was a decorative police officer and come to kenya to help quell the locals after the

scramble for africa basically. yeah. and he advised a way of helping locals by planting new crops. so they had the new boundaries because although boundaries had been carved up and then my grandad then went over to be with him. but my dad actually pined for kenya and he would speak in swahili to us. so i think the thing about growing up with parents were from kenya, gave me a very different experience to indians growing up for. yeah, i mean, you've got to kind of connect to cultures, but very strong individual cultures in themselves. absolutely. and you take that, you come to england, i mean, the identity crisis must, i mean, i says, but it was like the crisis or the if i never mind was always they don't, they teach is it was a to us of, they don't know if they're english or indian they don't know what to speak. they should all be speaking english or her having an identity crisis. and oh,

well actually i didn't, i. yeah, yeah. and then, well, i'm obviously not that is beat in punjabi with you as school because you get it. i'm going to speak it at home, but also interesting my best friends at school. will i from trinidad though, from grenada, and i learned about this whole big island, small island, because lake seen it that has kind of residue of colonialism. yeah. i mean when for us it was cuz my dad was very pale and my mom was a bit darker. ah. so we always had that thing of like, you know, i was, i was kind of pale than other members of my family, but i was dock and other members of my family was weird dichotomy of kind of like, well, you're better because your lighter and your last because your darker, right, i don't know being jamaica and going to may pain when my dad was from and they were to so pale and they just refused to talk to me. yeah. you know, and that was my 1st again, more identity issues because i was like, oh, so i'm in. this is part of jamaica that's reject to me when it's in my, myself,

i was, i was, i was jamaican for in through. and so we want to get back to, to being jamaican again, you know, i completely identify with that because when i went to india 1st went to india. when i was by 8 years old with them. and i absolutely refused to eat the food to do anything. and my poor grandma had to many chips every day. i was ridiculous, but i it's only when we go to these countries, when i go to india, i realize her english, i am. yeah, exactly. and i've made lots of movies in, in india, you know, and i love it from what it represents and stands for, you know, in the world in terms of spirituality and culture. it mean it's an amazing country, but is it my country? yeah. you recognize that you want to move yes or do yeah, but i'm, i'm like, you, i love to, i remember my great grandma lived on the top of really tall hill and she got up and down the hill like has nothing to. she was like 86 or something. my grand,

i've had this oh cheap. but when you drive, you had this big crack down the middle about what kind of opening close as you were driving. i love being scared and kind of like excited about the same time. yeah. well now as i get older i don't have so much conflict about am i this or my that or the other, but yes, i just go with the flow now. yeah. in there is a part of me i made a film on the partition of india is micra is the land of my grandparents, kenya, east africa is a lot of my parents in england, the lads of my kids who are actually part japanese american indian god knows there so i think that the, the world is a much smaller place and we do better to get away with these regional boundaries here, which is a be much more global exact. we've kind of taken our place. so if we didn't wait for it to be given to us, and that's what we've built and yeah, i think we're going to go somewhere because i think i'm really interested. they

will, these people are from watching as, cuz they're not clear. i'm all over the world. hello, what's your name? what's your question? hi, my name is be mystery and i'm from by india. so my question is that why do you think is music or music and hybridity so important for dice, for an artist or people in terms of giving them? there was an identity where music for me is emotion. it effortlessly is hybrid, a confluence of so many influences. so it totally speaks our language. if you are part of a desperate. so for me, the idea of being able to look into different expressions of people's culture and blend, the represents who i am. for me, i find that because music has so much emotion to it is a great connector, is the one thing that everybody on the planet can connect to and feel from their

heart. it's just is one of the things that comes out of us that we can translate these feelings to everybody as a film. what's great when i use music in film is it allows me to layer up. so by using a fused sound of music, then you add pictures and film sound to it and you get, you get something very exciting. hi, my name is bruce and i'm from south london in brexton. my, my mother my question is the skin being both black and a woman which one of these identities did you find more for endurance, navigating a white male dominated industry such as music? an interesting question, i mean, it's impossible for me to separate those things. they are all together all at the same time. so especially on dealing with other people who are not supportive towards me. and in those days i'm,

i don't know which one it was. it was kind of black or was it because i was gay or was it because female? i think it's just the whole thing. people had some issues with not necessarily one thing or more than the other. hi, i'm alegria. i mean lucy, bye. you too. as to women, especially children who are white, have you ever felt that internally is with in the asian community or within the black? me see the work by the expectations of how you should behave. oh, simila. becky was about. yeah. either there is this expectation for all parents that their children should be colored like them either, and it doesn't matter who you are, which background, which race, which class, whatever, all parents kind of feel safe, that their kids are kind of replicas of them. obviously with us, when our parents are immigrants, or have come in from somewhere else, we carry the guilt of trying to make their life feel worthwhile and their struggles

to give us a great education. you know, but my parents, when they realized i wasn't going to be a doctor, you know, or lawyer. and i wasn't going to get married in a 23 or something. i think they took that in their stride. actually i lay and i was able to take them with me on my journey. so, you know, i think we're going to always keep pushing boundaries for what you believe in and what is all sent it to you. and then one for the question, the scale. now, how do you go on there are less black, female stars who are allowed to, i guess, be a bit outlandish. all be rock stars. will you ever frustrate yourself and probably need to go to america or you can kind of in it's only such a way. so like a safe space at times. i think that the impression of what black women are supposed to do in this country in england, a very small, it's either you're highly sexualized or you're highly aggressive. and i think it's

is very small sphere that society puts on us. and i decided i am very ill estate off to try to fit in and trying to be either of those things. i try to be aggressive actually i just singing rock songs a big rush. if i'm, i discovered that i'm no, i'm not the go next door for stop trying to be like, you know, a white boy walker. and once i kind of let go of that, then that's really when everything fell into place, the, the racism in the sex of miss still so strong that it is more difficult. i think because this impression, which is wrong, that black people fronting rock france is not going to sell or still going to be popular. you know, i was hardly on any covers of magazines because they thought i was still going to. so i mean what, what, it was just to try and prove them like going to, so just do what you're doing and reprove the wrong. thank you. a quick question. really awesome discussion so far. and green. i want to talk about your segment in

the film that asia then i really, i really spoke to me not only as a muslim woman, but with mixed french heritage. and the authors such interesting insight into the issues of identity. what you've both spoken about today. unfortunately, today's prompts is somewhat different and the main character and probably just them soccer today, she might have to remove her job. so i wanted to ask you, how do you feel about how the country has changed since you made that age of them? and what are your thoughts on the right of the extreme right in the world today? and as off has been created, do we have a lot of responsibility toward combating hurtful and decisive narrative as so perish term is a film where about 18 different directors all get to make a short 10 minutes short and we can make it on anything we want and so they asked me and i immediately thought, well, is going to be some issue with the job because that was the big thing at the time being debated. and i did was, this was a love story between a girl who's got

a job on and a french boy francois. and what happens is a with another boy who cool it, it gives her a sla, basically says for france, for the french. and he says, why have you got some when you're covering all your beautiful hair, you know? and she responds and saying, it's my choice. you know, i keep my have for myself for when i want to use it for other people to see happy for this is me and is why identity and i end up having a conversation. so it's again, it comes down to fear really fear of the unknown. and i think that it's important as much as we can certainly is to always bring everything down to the common denominator as humans. and in that film, that's what i was trying to do is just bring them back down to the fact that they're both french and in terms of the rise of the right, i think, yes, there is arise of the right. but there's also rise of the left, you know, and that will always be the case and we must take solace in that in a,

in the fact that people will always be there to fight fascists. i mean, i, i, what i feel about it is the right of very organized base, kind of like the shoes. big force is army putting feelers out all over the well starting little group thought over the work i'm trying to directly influence people empower well if left when people sometimes i feel like we get cooks. so co op in our cells and find yourself where these guys hear despite much shing forward, really, you know, strong luck there, the tortoise and where the rabbit going around in circles. and so i would like to see a lot more. i'm strength in numbers because if we don't, then we'll have it be in a situation where some maybe, you know, conscious like dominoes and all have fresh is some right wing are wise premises. governments in about 5 years time, thousands. the question, themes

in the whole reason i came into making films was because i wanted to challenge the fact that we were absent from the screen. and therefore, absent from history for me, writing about politics or writing about political things, reading was just writing about my past experience. we all the recorders of all voices as people that the ask for and because they're there, they can't be taken away ah. from the al jazeera london broke off, fantastic to people in thoughtful conversation with no hosts and no limitation. it leads as a place of color. it was a struggle, it, it would be much easier for me. it might feel that white people part to go into china and thing a songwriter, skin, carry other people, wait a minute, you get way down. you stop what you're doing and made one studio

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