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Channel 4 Goes Buff And Colourful

By Wilfred Clarke
General News Channel 4 Goes Buff And Colourful
JUL 23, 2016 LISTEN

London - the British Urban Film Festival’s Media Day was successfully held at the Channel 4 Television Headquarters, on Thursday July 2016 at 124-126 Horseferry Road, SW1P 2TX.

Heralding the BUFF (British Urban Film Festival) awards 2016, the BUFF Media Day was a conference to exclusively showcase trails of impending films that are in contention for the forth coming awards, at the Hilton Hotel Tower Bridge on Sunday 18 September 2016.

Although the event started a bit late, Claire Clottey from Beat London FM as the Master of Ceremonies, made up for it with her jokes while ushering the media into the details of the screening as programmed.

Being officially touted as the leading film festival for diversity in the world by the Metro newspaper (Metro.co.uk May 2016) BUFF really and truly did not disappoint with the sort of films on display for this year’s award.

The films on display were diverse enough to encapsulate the focus and meaning of BUFF, thereby introducing new entrants who are taking their directorial debuts to the mainstream.

This year’s award sees debutant such as DJ Taylor and his ‘’ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT’’ an inciting film that firmly grips immigration and religion by the scruff of its neck.

Next up is Kenneth Pascal coming in with ‘’RESIDENTIAL’’ a feature-length drama that narrates the struggle of some Jamaicans in the diaspora opening up their world of crime and consequences.

And there is Sam Jones who at age 17 takes his directorial debut right into ‘Lifeline’ his latest film.

The diversity nature of BUFF exemplified itself with films such as ‘’ROOM MATES’’, ‘’THE TINDER PROBLE’’, ‘’AND THEN THERE WAS NOTHING’’, ‘’NEW MESSAGE’ AND ‘BLIGHT BFF’’.

While ‘’NO GUARANTEE ‘’, ‘’SWIPING MR RIGHT’’ ‘’SIGNS OF SILENCE’’ ‘’ A MANNER OF SPEAKING’’ and ‘’LOVE AND MORE IMPORTANT THINGS’’.

The second screening takes through films like ‘’ SOLDIER’’, ‘’TOWN VS GOWN’’, ‘’CATFACE’’, ‘’DIEMBE’’, ‘’LUCID’’, ‘’COVER ME’’, ‘’AMUKTA’’, ‘’THE BREAKFAST’’, ‘’THE LIGHT’’, ‘’THE KING’’ and ‘’AWOL’’.

Making the third leg of the screening were ‘’CHILD IN THEIR EYES’’, ‘’5 MINUTES’’, ‘’GUN IN A TRAINER BOX’’, ‘’GHOST ON FIRE’’, ‘’HYSTERIA’’, ‘’HUSH’’, ‘’ALTHEA’’, ‘’THE FIGHTING IRISH’’ ‘’THREE MINUTE WARNING’’ and ‘’LAST LEG’’ making the final cut.

Sue Caro’s presence as a patron gives BUFF arguably a major lift, but the powerful speech she delivered, gives the direction, motivation, determination, passion, drive and the new hope that BUFF needs to dwell on.

Her speech summed up the past, present and the future of struggles in the industry. No wonder her speech caught up with the audience to a rapturous applause reminiscent of a veteran broadcast journalist whose work has crossed many multimedia platforms.

Having worked her way up the ranking ladder, taking and enjoying her new role as the BUFF Director 2016, the beautiful and popular Ade, made sure her speech resonated with its focus and purpose.

Stamping their authority and supremacy in the world of Outdoor Broadcasting, the award winning Colourful Radio in tandem with new presenter Sloan Sheridan –Williams and journalist/DJ Karina Horsham Maynard made sure BUFF went live as Colourful.

Nkabani Photography was at the scene capturing anybody that matters to the occasion.

Giving chances to many talented creatives in the urban scene, BUFF stands tall, still and promising to its diversity status.

Due to the quantity and quality of urban films on its shelves, Buff can only get better when adequately funded. Kudus to the BUFF founder Mr Emmanuel Anyiam- Osigwe and his team of ‘BUFFERS’.

Thursday 21 July 2016 will ever be remembered in the annals of both Channel 4 and the British Urban Film Festival as the day that everything looked BUFF and Colourful.

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