Who Killed Colin Roach?

Who Killed Colin Roach?

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1983

Runtime

0h 35m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Who Killed Colin Roach?

Production Companies

Sankofa Film & Video

Director

Isaac Julien

Description

Who Killed Colin Roach? is Isaac Julien's first film, which reflects upon the death of Colin Roach, a 23 year old who was shot at the entrance of a police station in East London, in 1982. Even though the police claimed Roach had commited suicide, evidence showed otherwise. Isaac Julien says that this work is essentially a response to the riots, an answer to certain fixed ways of looking at black cultures, but also at those ways we might feel about ourselves.