Walter Rodney: What They Don't Want You To Know
Wed, Sep 20
|Sankofa Video & Books
‘Walter Rodney: What they don’t Want you to Know’ is an original 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of the Empire, and how that connects to the policing, surveillance practices, and social movements of today.


Time & Location
Sep 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video & Books, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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About The Event
‘Walter Rodney: What they don’t Want you to Know’ is an original 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of the Empire, and how that connects to the policing, surveillance practices, and social movements of today. This is the first film where Walter’s widow reveals the personal impact on the family of Walter’s assassination. It feeds a growing global appetite for history from a different perspective, as we grapple with the legacy of empire and colonialism and its impact on the modern world. Contributors include Angela Davis, Gina Miller, former President of Guyana Donald Ramotar, Edward and Donald Rodney, and Walter’s wife Patricia Rodney, as well as prominent historians. The film premiered at the British Film Institute's largest screen to a sell-out audience of 450, the BFI is Britain’s most prestigious film organisation.
About the Directors:
Directed by father and son team, Daniyal Harris-Vajda and Arlen Harris. Arlen is an award-winning programme maker with over 30 years of experience in print, TV, and radio, working mainly for British television for World in Action, Panorama, and Dispatches. His reporting on racial segregation in the army for the Observer helped end the colour bar in the elite regiments guarding the Queen. He has made a film on Guiness, the beer and the family. He has filmed with pirates in the South China seas, in Beirut, and in Sri Lanka during the civil war and made films about the Iraq War. In the last two years Daniyal worked as an Assistant Producer, Cameraman and Editor at Noah Media Group. Documentaries he part filmed and helped produce have been shown on ITV, Netflix, France’s Canal Plus, Amazon Prime and had a cinematic release, ‘Arsene Wenger: Invincible’. The three-part series ‘South of the River’ about why South London is producing so much football talent in the face of twelve years of austerity was highly commended at the Broadcast Sports Awards in 2022 and won a bronze at the Sports Journalism Awards.
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