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- Feature film presentation: Coming to England
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- This provocative and inspirational film captures a young girl's
feelings and emotions as she adjusts to living in the strange and
unfamiliar England of the 1960s. The film charts her journey by ship
across the Atlantic from her childhood home in Trinidad and describes
her experiences at school in England, having to exist in two cultures at
the same time, and the devastating realisation that she is going to be
treated differently because of her colour. This was a familiar story
for many West Indians, who, as children, were left behind when their
parents went on ahead to England before sending for them months,
sometimes years, later. Wrenched away from happy family life in the
Caribbean, they believed they were travelling to the Motherland, the
land they had been taught to love from afar. Floella Benjamin wrote the
book Coming to England from a child's perspective, describing the
heartbreak of being separated from her parents in Trinidad and the
emotional rollercoaster she experienced as she adjusted to life in a
cold, bleak England.
Followed by Q&A session with Floella Benjamin -
producer / writer. Keith Taylor - director / camera. Karen Johnson -
Commissioning Editor, BBC.
Director: Floella Benjamin
(60mins // UK, 2003
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