Jemina & Johnny

  • Jemina et Johnny (Jemima & Johnny)
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1965
Format : Short
Running time : 28 (in minutes)

In 1958, Notting Hill in West London erupted in vicious race riots. In South Africa in 1963, Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader, was imprisoned for life. Ngakane, a fellow ANC member, was exiled from South Africa and came to Britain to be a film director. JEMIMA & JOHNNY, his first fiction film, portrays the developing friendship between a white English boy and the young daughter of recent immigrants from the Caribbean, against the backdrop of a Notting Hill simmering with racial conflict.



JEMIMA & JOHNNY

Dir: Lionel Ngakane
1966, 30 minutes, 35mm. (Source: Anthology Film Archives, April 2011)

2011 - Anthology Film Archives (New York) - April 2011
* This screening is part of: UNITED WE STAND: SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA DURING APARTHEID

Summary for official catalogues

A boy and a girl go hand in hand investigating their neighborhood. Their different skin colors play no role for them, but they do for the inhabitants of their area of London. A film ignited by the Race Riots of 1958.

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