Steve McQueen

Education

Education

A Black boy’s journey through an ineffectual public school system reveals the racial inequities built into everyday British life. Young Kingsley Smith (Kenyah Sandy) is a spirited aspiring astronaut with a love of drawing whose life is turned upside down when he is thrust into a new school for the “educationally subnormal”—a harrowing experience that gradually awakens his mother (Sharlene Whyte) to the institutional mistreatment of the children of West Indian immigrants. Shot on Super 16 mm to evoke BBC television dramas from the 1970s, the final Small Axe film concludes the pentalogy with a hopeful vision of the power of Black-led collective action.

Film Info

  • United Kingdom
  • 2020
  • 66 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.60:1
  • English

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Small Axe

Small Axe

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$69.95

Education
Cast
Naomi Ackie
Hazel
Jade Anouka
Mrs. Morrison
Nigel Boyle
Mr. Hamley
Tabitha Byron
Sheila
Kate Dickie
Miss Gill
Sam Fourness
Mr. Kimble
Daniel Francis
Esmond Smith
Aiyana Goodfellow
Nina
Roshawn Hewitt
Baz
Tamara Lawrance
Stephanie Smith
Jo Martin
Mrs. Bartholomew
Ryan Masher
Joseph
Kayla Meikle
Mrs. Howard
Nathan Moses
Ashley
Adrian Rawlins
Headmaster
Kenyah Sandy
Kingsley Smith
Josette Simon
Lydia
Sharlene Whyte
Agnes Smith
Stewart Wright
Mr. Baines
Credits
Director
Steve McQueen
Executive producer
Tracey Scoffield
Executive producer
David Tanner
Executive producer
Steve McQueen
Story by
Steve McQueen
Screenplay by
Alastair Siddons
Screenplay by
Steve McQueen
Producer
Anita Overland
Producer
Michael Elliott
Director of photography
Shabier Kirchner
Supervising editor
Chris Dickens
Production designer
Helen Scott
Editor
Chris Dickens
Editor
Steve McQueen
Costume designer
Sinéad Kidao
Hair and makeup designer
JoJo Williams
Script supervisor
Phoebe Billington
Casting
Gary Davy
Sound mixer
Ronald Bailey
Supervising art director
Adam Marshall
Stills photographer
Will Robson-Scott
Music supervisor
Ed Bailie
Music supervisor
Abi Leland

Current

Small Axe: Seared into Consciousness
Small Axe: Seared into Consciousness

Steve McQueen’s monumental, five-film portrait of London’s West Indian community is a howl of endorsement for political resistance and a vivid indictment of institutional malaise.

By Ashley Clark