| Title: | Babymother | |
| Director 1: | Julian Henriques | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1998 | |
| length: | 82 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Julian Henriques, Vivienne Howard | |
| Cinematographer: | Peter Middleton | |
| Editor: | Jason Canovas | |
| Producer: | Parminder Vir | |
| Production company: | Arts Council/Channel 4 Films/Formation Films Productions | |
| Cast: | Anjela Lauren Smith, Wil Johnson, Caroline Chikezie | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 43 | |
| Synopsis: | In this musical film, a single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all-girl reggae group with her friends. Living in a housing project with little support, the odds are against her. Emotionally she struggles too as she learns that her next of kin kept some vital information about her position in the family secret. With the help of a female agent, the group starts to get some exposure and rises above their setting. | |
| Keyword 1: | reggae | |
| Keyword 2: | music | |
| Keyword 3: | family | |
| Keyword 4: | gender | |
| Keyword 5: | Harlesden | |
| Keyword 6: | women | |
| Keyword 7: | London | |
| Keyword 8: | black | |
| Keyword 9: | West Indian | |
| Text Reference 1: | A Fuller Picture: The Commercial Impact of Six British Films with Black Themes in the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 2: | Babymother (Combined dialogue and continuity script) | |
| Text Reference 3: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 4: | Money, Macpherson and Mind-Set: The Competing Cultural and Commercial Demands on Black and Asian British Films in the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 5: | Babymother | |
| Text Reference 6: | A Rage in Harlesden | |
| Text Reference 7: | Interview with Julian Henriques on "Babymother" | |
| Text Reference 8: | 'Babymother': Mommy the Drudge by Day, Dancehall Diva by Night | |
| Text Reference 9: | Babies, Mothers, Fathers and the Dancehall | |
| Text Reference 10: | If you want to know about London ... It's a laundrette in Peckham: Black British Directors and Screenwriters Visualise the Metropolis | |
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