| Title: | I Bring You Frankincense | |
| Director 1: | Ngozi Onwurah | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1996 | |
| length: | 33 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | TV drama | |
| Screenwriter: | Jonti | |
| Cinematographer: | Alwin H. Kuchler | |
| Editor: | Liz Webber | |
| Producer: | Colin Ludlow | |
| Production company: | BBC/Crucial Films | |
| Cast: | Saffron Burrows, Devin Griffin, Akim Mogaji | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 31 | |
| Synopsis: | The protagonist Sunshine Brown, the son of a white mother and an absent African American father, recalls his childhood in Guildford during the 1970s. Sunshine grows up with racist images on TV and experiences hostility and prejudice at school. When his mother escapes the parochial claustrophobia of her home town and resettles in a hippy community in London, Sunshine, for the first time, meets other people of African descent who initiate him into black pride. His softly burgeoning self-confidence is brutally dismantled when he is picked up and detained by the police for no greater offence than being out on the streets with a West Indian friend. His brief flirt with the multiethnic openness of the metropolis suddenly turns into an even more ruthless variety of the harassment he had experienced in Guildford. He comes of age riding in the back of a police car. | |
| Keyword 1: | white | |
| Keyword 2: | black | |
| Keyword 3: | racism | |
| Keyword 4: | prejudice | |
| Keyword 5: | London | |
| Keyword 6: | pride | |
| Keyword 7: | youth | |
| Keyword 8: | police | |
| Keyword 9: | West Indian | |
| Keyword 10: | city | |
| Keyword 11: | 1970s | |
| Keyword 12: | mixed-race | |
| Keyword 13: | mixed-race relationship | |
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