Young Soul Rebels

The British video artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (*1960) is considered a formative voice of New Queer Cinema. In YOUNG SOUL REBELS, he combines elements from the thriller, coming-of-age drama and love story genres with a lively soundtrack by Funkadelic, Junior Murvin, Parliament and X-Ray Spex. It is 1977 and the soulboys Caz (Mo Sesay) and Chris (Valentine Nonyela) run a local pirate radio station in the East London area of Dalston. When their friend TJ is killed while cruising in a local park, they try to solve the case. As the city prepares for the Queen's silver jubilee, social tensions between skinheads, punks, the police, and the two friends threaten to escalate. The film was funded by the BFI and produced by Sankofa Workshop co-founder Nadine Marsh-Edwards.