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Small Axe: Education (TV)

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Small Axe (TV Miniseries)

Original title: Small Axe: Education (TV)
Year: 2020
Running time: 60 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Steve McQueen
Screenwriter: Steve McQueen, Alastair Siddons
Cinematography: Shabier Kirchner
Cast: Kenyah Sandy, Sharlene Whyte, Tamara Lawrance, Daniel Francis, Josette Simon, Ryan Masher, Naomi Ackie, Jairaj Varsani, Aiyana Goodfellow, Tabitha Byron, Jo Martin, Nathan Moses, Kemal Sylvester, Kate Dickie, Stewart Wright, Nigel Boyle, Roshawn Hewitt, Adrian Rawlins, Trevor Laird, Jade Anouka, Sam Fourness, Ralph Davis, Kayla Meikle, Temirlan Blaev, Brooke Haynes
Producer: Turbine Studios, BBC, Lammas Park, Emu Films, Amazon Studios, Creative England
Genre: Drama | TV Movie. Teen/coming-of-age. Racism
Movie Groups: Small Axe
Synopsis / Plot: Education is the coming of age story of 12-year-old Kingsley (Kenyah Sandy), who has a fascination for astronauts and rockets. When Kingsley is pulled to the headmaster's office for being disruptive in class, he discovers he's being sent to a school for those with "special needs." Distracted by working two jobs, his parents (Sharlene Whyte, Daniel Francis) are unaware of the unofficial segregation policy at play, preventing many Black children from receiving the education they deserve, until a group of West Indian women take matters into their own hands.

Awards: 2020: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Cinematography

Critics' reviews

"With its crisp narrative economy (...) the original script by McQueen and Alastair Siddons plays almost like a YA adaptation, in the best possible way"

David Rooney: The Hollywood Reporter
"This minuscule but affecting hourlong story is an extension of the 'Small Axe' mission to fill a historical gap deserving of greater scrutiny, and achieves that goal by serving as a kind of education itself."

Eric Kohn: IndieWire
"McQueen’s coming-of-age work simply titled 'Education' exhibits his warmest, tenderest filmmaking yet. And by its conclusion, reaches for the celestial."

Robert Daniels: The Playlist
"Children are the future, as Whitney Houston famously reminded us, and both have to be fought for, as Steve McQueen so powerfully expresses in 'Education'"

Alonso Duralde: The Wrap
"Do yourself a favor: Don’t miss 'Education' (...) The brilliance of this particular episode is how it allows us to see ourselves in Kingsley"

Peter Debruge: Variety
"Like the rest of the Small Axe films, 'Education' takes place in the past but feels exceptionally timely today. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Odie Henderson: rogerebert.com
"[These films] tell stories from an underappreciated segment of British culture, and amplifying its voice."

John Serba: Decider
"Despite the fact that fact-based, but fictional Education documents an appalling injustice against black school children, it’s also a romance about family love and the community of women"

Fionnuala Halligan: Screendaily

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