The UK is Not Innocent: the story of INQUEST (film premier)
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INQUEST
published : April 2024
INQUEST are proud to premiere 'The UK is Not Innocent: the story of INQUEST', at the Castle Cinema in Hackney on 24 April at 6.30pm. The UK is Not Innocent features Benjamin Zephaniah’s last recorded poem. He was patron of INQUEST for over 20 years.
This is a 45-minute documentary film made by Rainbow Collective as part of INQUEST’s 40 Years heritage project. The film traces INQUEST’s evolution from a grassroots collective of families bereaved by state-related deaths to an established charity providing expertise on deaths in custody, exposing forty years of state violence and resistance in England and Wales.
Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with the Richard York & Hannan Majid (Directors), Aji Lewis (mother of Seni Lewis), Naomi Oppenheim & Jessica Pandian (Producers). Join us at the cinemas' bar afterwards to continue the conversation.
Tickets available at various prices from £10.00.
What is INQUEST?
INQUEST is the only charity providing expertise on state related deaths and their investigation to bereaved people, lawyers, advice and support agencies, the media and parliamentarians.
Their specialist casework includes deaths in police and prison custody, immigration detention, mental health settings and deaths involving multi-agency failings or where wider issues of state and corporate accountability are in question. This includes work around the Hillsborough football disaster and the Grenfell Tower fire.
