Name: Sausage Rolls & Jollof Rice – Short Film Screening
Start: 2026-03-07T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-07T20:00:00+00:00
Location: 35 Bethnal Grn Rd

$Sausage Rolls & Jollof Rice \u2013 Short Film Screening$

A bold short film about Black identity, diaspora and the pressure of playing roles, on screen and in real life.
About this Event

Join us for a screening of Sausage Rolls & Jollof Rice, a short film exploring Black diaspora identity, belonging, and the realities of being a creative navigating life on a film set.

Set behind the scenes of a production, the story looks at code-switching, performance, and the pressure of playing roles on and off screen, rooted in lived experience and authentic British storytelling.

Screen: Screen 2

Arrival: Please arrive for 6:00PM

This film has been developed as part of 'Diaspora Film Pedagogies' (PI: Dr James Harvey) - a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), through an award from the University of Hertfordshire’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Account.

Agenda

🕑: 06:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Welcome
🕑: 06:30 PM - 06:50 PM
Poetry & Rap Performances
🕑: 06:50 PM - 07:15 PM
Film
🕑: 07:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Q&A
🕑: 07:45 PM - 08:00 PM
Networking