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SMALL AXE LOVERS ROCK

SMALL AXE – LOVERS ROCK

Director: Steve McQueen
Mini-seriesGB 20201x69’ (5x63’-127’)English OV
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With the multi-award winning five-part series SMALL AXE about real-life stories from the West Indian population in the London of the 70s and 80s, Steve McQueen, whose parents were Caribbean immigrants, goes back to his own family's roots. The second of these stand-alone episodes, LOVERS ROCK, is the musical McQueen always wanted to make. It evolves around two teenage girls who sneak away to an all-night house party, and showcases all of McQueen's signature elegance, attention to detail, racial sensibility and cultural vibrancy.

Director
Steve McQueen
Screenplay
Steve McQueen, Courttia Newland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Producers
Michael Elliott, Anita Overland
Executive Producers
Steve McQueen, Rose Garnett, Norman Merry, Lucy Richer, Tracey Scoffield, Caroline Stone, David Tanner, Paul Ashton
Cinematography
Shabier Kirchner
Editing
Chris Dickens, Steve McQueen
Music
Mika Levi
Sound
Ronald Bailey, Jens Christensen, Paul Cotterell, Ben Cross
Production Design
Helen Scott
Cast
Micheal Ward, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Shaniqua Okwok, Ellis George
International Sales
BBC Studios