What is Brit.I.Am - The Film?
Well, I shall tell you. In 2010 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I closed my stand up comedy show, "Afroblighty" with a poem called Brit.I.Am. The poem was my take on the things in British culture and society we love, hate, wish would change, and the things we hope will always be the same.
It occurred to me that the poem could translate to the screen, so I started looking at how to make it into a short film. It soon became obvious that this was not something I could do alone, and furthermore - I didn’t want to. I wanted to get as many people involved as possible.
The idea is to construct the film from individual lines of the poem performed by different people in all walks of life, the whole length and breadth of the country. When it's all cut together, my hope is that it will provide a unique portrait of life in Britain today.
The finished film will be submitted to film festivals all over the world, and every contribution that makes the final edit will be credited. Imagine that, your own film credit!
Interested? Click here to get involved!
