1. Imruh Bakari is a film maker and writer born in 1950 on St Kitts, who is referred to as Imruh Bakari Caesar or Imruh Caesar.
14 Facts About Imruh Bakari
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Imruh Bakari currently teaches Film Studies at the University of Winchester.
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Imruh Bakari worked with Menelik Shabazz on Step Forward Youth, which documented the lives of black youth in Britain, and in 1982 on Burning an Illusion and the short Blood Ah Go Run.
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Imruh Bakari formed Kuumba Productions with Menelik Shabazz and Henry Martin, and was a founder member of Ceddo Film and Video Workshop, an outlet for new young, primarily black, talent.
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Imruh Bakari produced I Am Not Two Islands for Channel 4.
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Imruh Bakari then made Street Warriors in 1985, and The Mark of the Hand in 1986 for the Arts Council of Great Britain on the work of Caribbean artist Aubrey Williams.
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In 1992, Imruh Bakari directed Blue Notes and Exiled Voices, about the experiences of exiled South African musicians during the apartheid era, featuring Hugh Masekela, the Brotherhood of Breath, Louis Moholo and Pinise Saul.
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Between 1999 and 2004 Imruh Bakari was Festival Director for the Zanzibar International Film Festival.
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Imruh Bakari participated in the industry organisation, the Tanzania Independent Producers Association.
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In 1985, Imruh Bakari worked on Compound Images, Coming Up for Air, and The Balmyard in 1986 with Don Kinch's Staunch Poets and Players.
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Imruh Bakari writes on African and Caribbean cinema and the creative industries.
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Imruh Bakari's articles have appeared in publications including the 1993 and 1994 Ecrans d'Afrique, Screen, Black Filmmaker and Black Film Bulletin.
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Imruh Bakari is the joint editor, with Mbye Cham, of African Experiences of Cinema.
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Imruh Bakari has performed his work on London's Southbank Centre.