Dir. Daniyal Harris-Vajda & Arlen Harris
UK

Supported by The Walter Rodney Foundation & The Ameena Gafoor Institute.

Screening as part of Opening Night: the ones who shared their souls, program, Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know, is an original circa 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of Empire, and how that connects to the policing and surveillance practices of today.

It reveals that Guyanese historian Dr Walter Rodney was under British security surveillance from the age of 19, after visiting Russia and Cuba while a student at UWI in Jamaica. He was seen as subversive both as an academic and as an activist who supported anti-colonial movements and civil rights…Read More