this broken piece of yard #1 with Bea Freeman this broken piece of yard

In this episode Cairo speaks with Bea Freeman a filmmaker, producer and community organiser working across TV and film in Liverpool and across the UK for over 25 years. With an incredible history across community filmmaking as well as working for the African & Caribbean unit of the BBC, Bea shares reflections and anecdotes about her journey into filmmaking, making work around the 1981 uprisings in Liverpool and the complexity of ownership of means of production as a black filmmaker.

Excerpts of audio from:


They haven’t done nothing (1985) Director: David Horsefield Producer: Bea Freeman Production Company: Liverpool Black Media Group

Love in Black & White (1998) Director: Maxine Watson

They Don’t Get a Chance - A Tribute to Black Women (1985) Produced by Ann Carney & Barbara Phillips Production Company: WITCH (Women’s Independent Cinema House)

Daughter of the Windrush (2019) Director: Hambi Haralambous, Executive Producer: Andrea Rushton, Producer: Bea Freeman, a Blackburne House Production.


This series is for educational purposes.

Download the full transcript here. 



Produced and edited by Sandra Jean-Pierre, mixed by Adrian Townsend, soundscape by Ratiba Ayadi and graphic design by Joshua Woolford.