Being Blacker

After a ten year absence acclaimed filmmaker Molly Dineen is back with a new feature documentary Being Blacker an intimate portrait of Jamaicanborn reggae producer businessman father son and prominent community figure Blacker Dread 40 years after featuring in Dineens first film Blacker and his family friends and community in South London face the combined challenges of rapid social change gentrification inequality poverty crime and racism as they seek to secure their futures Made with intimacy and warmth the film takes us deep into Blackers world as he buries his mother closes his business and faces prison for the first time Being Blacker offers a rarelyheard perspective on life in Britain today