Black History Black Future: Barrel Children + Q&A
Through a Different Lens presents Black History, Black Future.
Screening of Barrel Children, with Sibling Strangers poetry reading and post-film Q+A with Pam Williams.
Exploring the lived experience of Caribbean children (now adults) who remained in the Caribbean joining their parents at a later stage in the 1950s & 1960s. This documentary film explores the heart felt and sometimes difficult life experience of Caribbean children who were separated from their parents as they answered the call from ‘the motherland’ to help Great Britain to rebuild, but at what cost? The film features interviews from a number of former ‘Barrel Children’ including Neil Kenlock - the founder of Britain’s first Black radio station Choice FM, renowned reggae music producer Blacker Dread, former BBC broadcaster Evadney Campbell MBE and more.
Nadine White’s debut documentary, Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind, peels back the layered tales of the Caribbean youngsters who grew up away from their Windrush parents before migrating to join them in Britain.
The term ‘Barrel Children’ is commonly used to describe children whose only connection with their parents was through remittances from abroad.
Director Nadine White said: “The impact of serial migration upon Black Caribbean families has yet to be robustly explored in the national conversation around Windrush. For the first time in British cinematic history, this film will highlight these underexplored perspectives.
