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Emmy-Winning Documentary Maker Warns: Rise In Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Is Hurting Filmmaking In UK


Deeyah Khan says the rise in anti-immigrant sentiment in the UK has been startling over the past two decades.

She continues: “Since 9/11, we’ve witnessed a slow and steady-burn dehumanisation of immigrants, especially migrants of colour in Europe, Australia and North America. Khan explains: “I’ve been fortunate to have the trust and creative freedom to tell the stories I care about at ITV, thanks to Tom Giles at Exposure and Kevin Lygo. But I remember, at the beginning of my career, I wanted to make a film about an Italian pianist who collected music composed by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps and explore the impulse to create even in captivity.

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