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.
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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
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