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Film challenging the UK's obsession with period dramas and their failure to reflect modern diversity, asking what it means for those excluded from this vision of Britain.

CLASH challenges the national obsession with period dramas and calls out their failure to reflect modern diversity, asking what it means for those excluded from this vision of the UK. Humphrey Jennings' Listen to Britain propagated a myth of national unity. CLASH, through the perspectives of underrepresented queer people of colour, critiques the myths we still tell ourselves on screen. Through candid interviews and staged period drama sequences, the film explores the issues surrounding nostalgic, 'heritage' film and television, and how they erase the diverse history of Britain, particularly its colonial past.

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Role Contributor
Narrator Tim McInnerny
Interviewed Guest Umber Ghauri
Interviewed Guest Nadine Davis
Interviewed Guest Tia Simon-Campbell
Interviewed Guest Basi Akpabio
Interviewed Guest Temi Wilkey
Interviewed Guest Ijeoma Uzoukwu
Interviewed Guest Travis Alabanza
Producer Savannah James-Bayly
Director Amrou Al-Kadhi
Composer Thomas Fitzsimons
Production Company Wingspan Productions
Editor Fiona Brands
Production Company Fox Cub Films

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