This edition of Behind The Screen, our series giving audiences the opportunity to hear from filmmakers and industry insiders, gives an insight into how new feature film Rocks was made.
Ahead of the autumn release of the film, director Sarah Gavron (Suffragette), associate director Anu Henriques, screenwriters Theresa Ikoko (winner of the Alfred Fagon award in 2015 for her play Girls) and Claire Wilson (Little Drummer Girl, Gangs of London), and actors Bukky Bakray and Kosar Ali all join film critic Simran Hans, writer and Observer film critic, for a discussion into the collaborative creative process behind the film, with a selection of exclusive clips, shared publicly for the first time.
Rocks follows teenager Rocks (Bakray) who fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel (D’angelou Osei Kissiedu) will be forced apart if anyone finds out they are living alone. With the help of her friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her life. A film about the joy, resilience and spirit of girlhood, Behind The Screen offers an insight into the making of the film from its creators and stars, which saw the majority of the actors street cast from East London, and who went on to work collaboratively with the all-female creative team to shape the authentic screenplay.
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