Films
The Medallion (2023)
Director: Ruth Hunduma
A single piece of jewellery holds the story of generations. Ruth was barely a teenager when her mother passed down her Medallion, etched with the golden portrait of Nefertiti. Together, they go back to Ethiopia and explore her mother’s story as a survivor of the Red Terror genocide. Amidst a new civil war, the two revisit a country bursting with history and culture.
The Medallion is a short documentary funded by the BFI Doc Society and One Small Barking Dog. The documentary won Best International Short Film by the Student Jury at Clermont-Ferrand (2024). The Medallion had its UK premiere at Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2023), and its US premiere at DOC NYC (2023). The documentary is an Official Selection of Short of the Week, London Short Film Festival (2024), Clermont-Ferrand (2024), True/False Film Fest (2024), Glasgow Short Film Festival (2024), San Francisco International Film Festival (2024), Movies That Matter (2024), Hot Docs (2024) and Docaviv (2024). The Medallion has been acquired by The New Yorker and will premiere online in North America in the summer of 2024. SUDU Connexion is the distributor for sales in France and Germany.
The Women Inside (2022)
Director: Bethany Ann Macdonald
The Women Inside follows four fictional Black, migrant and refugee women as they express the trials and tribulations of going through the UK criminal justice and asylum systems. The fictional women in this film (performed by Anni Domingo, Ayesha Antoine, Laura Asare, Tolu Stedford, and directed by Bethany Ann McDonald), represent real women from Hibiscus Women’s Centre who have collectively written the screenplay to create a narrative that shares their thoughts and feelings about living in Britain amidst the constant threat of deportation.
The Women Inside won the Jury Award at the London Independent Film Festival 2023, and is an Official Selection of the ECOFeminism Festival (2024) and The Global Migration Film Festival (2024).
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