‘As a film lover, I want more’: the Black female directors taking centre stage

Women calling the shots … stills from the films Welcome II the Terrordome, Pariah, Naked Acts and Drylongso. Illustration: Joe Plimmer/Guardian Pictures/BFI/Kindred Spirits/Shutterstock

Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week I spoke to Rógan Graham, a curator of the British Film Institute’s latest season, Black Debutantes: A Collection of Early Works by Black Women Directors. The programme runs throughout May at the BFI Southbank in London, and is a celebration of the feature-length work of Black female film-makers, both the familiar and the seldom screened.

‘Black women don’t have long careers within the film industry’