Since launching in 2021, the fund has supported eight feature films across three funding rounds.
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Don’t Knock the Afro Rock (documentary)
Director Matt Kay, Producers Lucy Draper and Rory Calder
Noir: Britain's first Black rock band who disappeared without a trace. Uncovering the shocking history of one of Rock & Roll’s forgotten classics, and following one band’s fight for justice in a racist industry, as they reclaim the story of their phenomenal debut album.
The Golden Radiance of a Beetle* (fiction)
Writer and director Henry Blake, Co-Writer Xiao Tang, Producers Victoria Bavister and Denzil Monk
1919. A Chinese dock worker and an English woman fall in love, but societal hatred transmogrifies her into a beetle. Cocooned from the pain, can their love transcend?
*denotes a second round of development funding from The Uncertain Kingdom
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Our Land (documentary)
Director Orban Wallace, Producers Rebecca Wolff and Leo Smith
Journeying over the walls that divide us, in an exploration into the communities at the heart of the English land justice debate.
The Hills Have Wheels (fiction)
Director Jason Wingard, Writers David Proud and David Isaac, Producer Hannah Stevenson
A group of disabled 18-30s go on an adventure holiday. It should be the time of their lives but they end up fighting for their lives.
Mo & Me (documentary)
Director Hen Norton, Producers Mary Carson and Rachel Lysaght
Mo Mowlam, the architect of the Good Friday Peace agreement, is revealed in all her complexity through the eyes of her step-daughter, filmmaker Hen Norton. Once lauded, now seemingly sidelined from history, this film explores the triumph and tragedy and the quiet erosion of Mo’s once powerful political legacy.
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Fulfilment (fiction)
Writer Ted Wilkes, Producer Manon Ardisson
To make ends meet, aspiring novelist Abbie (30s) is forced to take a job as a ‘seasonal associate’ at a warehouse operated by the world’s biggest e-commerce brand, Sahara. But in the shadows of the night shift lurk terrifying creatures, feasting on the flesh of the workers who can’t make quota. Slowly Abbie relishes morphing into one of them…
Time Pieces (documentary)
Director Carol Salter
A lyrical documentary exploring how people work in opposition to or in harmony with time, and how ultimately it controls and defines us. And how saving time today might mean losing it tomorrow.
The Golden Radiance of a Beetle (fiction)
Writer and director Henry Blake, Co-Writer Xiao Tang, Producers Victoria Bavister and Denzil Monk
1919. A Chinese dock worker and an English woman fall in love, but societal hatred transmogrifies her into a beetle. Cocooned from the pain, can their love transcend?
Madam Tinubu (fiction)
Writer Rex Obano, Producer Jennifer Monks
2052. The world as we know it has ended. Only migrating Africans can survive the blistering heat of Britain. After the kidnap of her lover in a tribal rivalry, Madam Tinubu will do anything bring him home, even risking the safety of her people. Will her resolve survive the cruelty of this new world or will she succumb to the Nordic traffickers?