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How Ngozi Onwurah’s Dystopian ‘Welcome II the Terrordome’ Went from Lost ’90s Black Indie to Long-Overdue Rediscovery
['Ryan Lattanzio']
IndieWire
English-Nigerian filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah made history in 1995 with the first feature directed by a Black British woman to be released in U.K. cinemas, “Welcome II the Terrordome.”
The main reason is because it was a Black film, and an angry Black film.
Especially as a Black woman, it was definitely perceived as nihilistic.
“My big kind of bugbear was that all Black films at the time that you saw … were gritty social realism, camera-on-your-shoulder, available light.
It took a few years before you understood that was the first Black British feature film, theatrically released feature film, by a Black woman.