• Director(s)

    Lionel Wallace

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    18/11/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    52m

  • Cast

    Vernetta Lynch, Bazil Meade, Leonn Meade

Film

Voices of Hope

references to racism and domestic abuse

Issues of racism and domestic abuse feature in this British documentary, which looks at 40 years of the London Community Gospel Choir, focusing on co-founder Bazil Meade who travelled to the UK from Montserrat as a boy.…

Issues of racism and domestic abuse feature in this British documentary, which looks at 40 years of the London Community Gospel Choir, focusing on co-founder Bazil Meade who travelled to the UK from Montserrat as a boy.

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violence

threat and horror

discrimination

language

sex

drugs

injury detail

nudity

  • Director(s)

    Lionel Wallace

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    18/11/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    52m

  • Cast

    Vernetta Lynch, Bazil Meade, Leonn Meade

references to racism and domestic abuse
Classified Date:
23/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Podio Promotions Limited
violence
A man remembers being attacked by his stepfather with a hammer when he was a boy, and fending off this assault. He also talks about verbal abuse he experienced from his stepfather and makes undetailed references to the domestic abuse his mother endured from the same man. There is real footage of riots which broke out in London during the 1980s, including brief sight of clashes between police and rioters.
threat and horror
There is real footage of a volcano eruption in Montserrat, along with verbal testimony of the destruction that was caused. We hear that a man suffered severe burns after getting too close to the eruption and that people feared for their lives.
discrimination
A man recalls the racist attitudes he was faced with as a boy after moving to the UK from Montserrat; this includes seeing signs saying 'no Irish, no blacks' in windows. There are other references to racist attitudes and behaviour, including institutionalised racism. There is news footage of race riots. There are references to the deaths of people in a fire widely suspected to have been a case of racially motivated arson. A man recalls feeling uncomfortable when visiting a German nightclub; he implies it was frequented by men dressed as women.

  • Classified date

    23/11/2023

  • Language

    English