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Director Steve McQueen won an Academy Award for Best Picture for telling the dramatic true story of a free African American who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in his movie 12 Years of Slave.

Now he's addressing a form of racial oppression that hits a lot closer to home for him in a new anthology of films called Small Axe, which debuts on Amazon Prime November 20th.

Small Axe consists of not one but five full-length motion pictures that collectively capture the lives of London's West Indian community in the 70s and 80s and their force of will against systematic racism and discrimination.

And today I'm happy to welcome Steve to the podcast to talk about the process of creating five thematically connected but totally different standalone movies, each with their own distinct looks, styles and time periods.

He reveals how his own upbringing in London's West Indian community and the stories he was told by family members laid the groundwork for Small Axe and he shares how he based one of those films on his own personal experience with racial injustice as a boy in school.

He also tells the inspiring tale of the mangrove nine who stood up to police harassment in a British court.

The true story of the West Indian police officer who tried to change things from within and why he says that the London Metropolitan Police is still plagued with systematic racism to this day, coming up with director Steve McQueen in just a moment.

So Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker best known for his Academy Award-winning motion picture 12 years of slave.

His other feature films include Hunger for which McQueen received the camera to Or at the Cannes Film Festival as well as his 2011 movie Shame and most recently Widows in 2018.

McQueen is the recipient of the Turner Prize, the highest award given to a British visual artist and in 2014 he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.

He was appointed officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2002, Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011 and was recently knighted this year for his services to film.

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