The director behind Rejoyce!, @_DavidLedger on the importance of getting your first short made. Watch our full SCENE interview with David, hosted by Joanna McClurg, here: theb.fi/4jYvCn4

Watch our final SCENE of the Film Festivals season with @_DavidLedger talking to Joanna McClurg about his film Rejoyce! In his film, after the death of her husband, an elderly vicar's wife re-discovers a book of erotic fiction that she wrote in her youth. Watch David's film here: theb.fi/418Ddba

Proud dad alert! With the director (along with one of the stars!) at the premiere of Odd Socks this week. A wonderfully surreal and inventive comedy. ⁦@ignatius_sancho⁩ is superb as always. Many congratulations to my lovely lad ⁦@_DavidLedger⁩

I was asked some really thoughtful questions by @TheNewCurrent about 'Rejoyce!' at @BFIFlare. The festival starts today and I can't wait 😊 'Rejoyce!' is screening this Saturday at 10.30am NFT 1 and Sunday 24th at 5.45pm NFT 2 thenewcurrent.co.uk/rejoyce

Catch a second screening of 'Rejoyce!' as part of Best of Fest, Sunday 24th March. Tix on sale from Thursday

👄 Explore the powerful stories of sex, identity and transformation in our #BFIFlare Bodies strand. theb.fi/3OYNcsT

Festival guests attending this year's BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA Film Festival ⬇️ theb.fi/3P6fSQQ

Very excited and very proud that ‘Rejoyce!’ will have its premiere at this year’s BFI Flare @BFIFlare @BFI Saturday 16th March, NFT 1 Tickets here: whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Onl…

Suella Braverman has whipped-up more hate and division than perhaps any other MP. From claiming there's a migrant "invasion", to saying sleeping on the streets is a "lifestyle choice", she's the one stoking hate in our communities. The sooner she's out of government the better.

It's officially spooky season! To welcome October in all its chilling glory, we've put together a list of female-directed horror films on @letterboxd: letterboxd.com/girlsontopste…

When will we start being honest about how so much content online these days directly leans into the dehumanisation of girls and women, which can manifest as real-life extreme violence???!!! This stuff ISN'T harmless.

RT @kiripritchardmc: Just wanted to say this.

Infantino: 'Women, just push the doors, they're open 👍' Women: 'We want equal pay' Infantino: 'No.' 🙃

Patrice Lumumba Last Letter. He was the first legally elected prime minister of D.R Congo and was assassinated in 1961 following a military coup supported by U.S.A & Belgian imperialism which was admitted by the State Dept in 2013. My dear wife, I am writing these words to you, not knowing whether they will ever reach you, or whether I shall be alive when you read them. Throughout my struggle for the independence of our country I have never doubted the victory of our sacred cause, to which I and my comrades have dedicated all our lives. But the only thing which we wanted for our country is the right to a worthy life, to dignity without pretence, to independence without restrictions. This was never the desire of the Belgian colonialists and their Western allies, who received, direct or indirect, open or concealed, support from some highly placed officials of the United Nations, the body upon which we placed all our hope when we appealed to it for help. They seduced some of our compatriots, bought others and did everything to distort the truth and smear our independence. What I can say is this—alive or dead, free or in jail—it is not a question of me personally. The main thing is the Congo, our unhappy people, whose independence is being trampled upon. That is why they have shut us away in prison and why they keep us far away from the people. But my faith remains indestructible. I know and feel deep in my heart that sooner or later my people will rid themselves of their internal and external enemies, that they will rise up as one in order to say 'No' to colonialism, to brazen, dying colonialism, in order to win their dignity in a clean land. We are not alone. Africa, Asia, the free peoples and the peoples fighting for their freedom in all corners of the world will always be side by side with the millions of Congolese who will not give up the struggle while there is even one colonialist or colonialist mercenary in our country. To my sons, whom I am leaving and whom, perhaps, I shall not see again, I want to say that the future of the Congo is splendid and that I expect from them, as from every Congolese, the fulfilment of the sacred task of restoring our independence and our sovereignty. Without dignity there is no freedom, without justice there is no dignity and without independence there are no free men. Cruelty, insults and torture can never force me to ask for mercy, because I prefer to die with head high, with indestructible faith and profound belief in the destiny of our country than to live in humility and renounce the principles which are sacred to me. The day will come when history will speak. But it will not be the history which will be taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations. It will be the history which will be taught in the countries which have won freedom from colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity. Do not weep for me. I know that my tormented country will be able to defend its freedom and its independence. Long live the Congo! Long live Africa! Thysville prison Patrice LUMUMBA

'Rejoyce!' coming later this year. Staring Amanda Walker, @shinysiany & Jodie Tyack.

Thread: The #ListenToUs! report finds that Black, minoritised, migrant, Deaf and disabled women victim/survivors, who already face communications barriers, are being denied equal access to help and support from the police. Read more: bit.ly/43tkVjW 1/6

"What we call “amnesia”, is really nothing of the sort. Nations do not forget centuries of slavery as a person might forget an umbrella. It is not a medical condition, but a political one They set about the task with great prejudice." bit.ly/3zdYxgq

No one is born illegal. The only illegal thing is this Tory government’s illegal migration bill. You can't pick and choose who has human rights. 👇🏾 stylist.co.uk/news/dawn-butl…

Oh, so we're back in the 1970s, as if we never left it. This is about a diseased institutional culture disproportionately populated with bigoted & corruptible characters. Read CORRUPTIBLE: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us by @brianklaas. #CaseyReport theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…

***** 'An irresistible satirical comedy': @YellowHatProd's The Play With The Really Long Slightly Poetic Sounding Title... at @VAULTFestival broadwayworld.com/article/Re…