Title: | I'm British But... | |
Director 1: | Gurinder Chadha | |
Country: | UK | |
Year: | 1989 | |
length: | 32 mins | |
Colour/b-w: | colour | |
Genre: | documentary | |
Screenwriter: | Gurinder Chadha | |
Cinematographer: | Nina Kellgren, Chris Hughes | |
Editor: | Michael Danks | |
Producer: | Eliza Mellor | |
Production company: | ||
Cast: | ||
Location: | TABB | |
TABB No.: | 80 | |
Synopsis: | Gurinder Chadha examines notions of national identity through interviews with the grown-up children of South Asian British living in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Celebrating a unique cultural synthesis to a Bhangra soundtrack, "I'm British But..." represents one of the first second-generation South Asian films from the UK. | |
Keyword 1: | Bhangra | |
Keyword 2: | Britishness | |
Keyword 3: | tradition | |
Keyword 4: | belonging | |
Keyword 5: | national identity | |
Keyword 6: | second generation | |
Keyword 7: | cultural identity | |
Keyword 8: | youth | |
Keyword 9: | Asian |
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