| Title: | Pressure | |
| Director 1: | Horace Ové | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1975 | |
| length: | 120 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Horace Ové, Samuel Selvon | |
| Cinematographer: | Michael J. Davis | |
| Editor: | Alan Cumner-Price | |
| Producer: | Robert Buckler | |
| Production company: | BFI Productions | |
| Cast: | Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Lucita Lijertwood | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 37 | |
| Synopsis: | "Pressure" is the first full-length Black British feature film. Tony, the English-born son of Trinidadian parents living in Notting Hill, cannot get a job despite his O-levels. He finds himself alienated from his white friends and pressured by his mother. He follows the lead of his older brother into involvement with Black Power. The screenplay was co-written by Caribbean author Sam Selvon ("The Lonely Londoners", "Moses Ascending", "Moses Migrating"). | |
| Keyword 1: | Notting Hill | |
| Keyword 2: | racism | |
| Keyword 3: | unemployment | |
| Keyword 4: | police | |
| Keyword 5: | harassment | |
| Keyword 6: | Black Power | |
| Keyword 7: | black | |
| Keyword 8: | youth | |
| Keyword 9: | first generation | |
| Keyword 10: | second generation | |
| Keyword 11: | London | |
| Keyword 12: | cultural identity | |
| Keyword 13: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Keyword 14: | West Indian | |
| Text Reference 1: | Horace Ové: Living with Pressure | |
| Text Reference 2: | Black Independent Film in Britain: Historical Overview | |
| Text Reference 3: | Fear of the Dark: 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema | |
| Text Reference 4: | Going to Meet the Man | |
| Text Reference 5: | Representation and Blacks in British Cinema | |
| Text Reference 6: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 7: | 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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