Black, Queer & Done (BQD)
is a multi-award-winning intense, emotive, unfiltered documentary exploring the reality of the lived experiences of Black Queer artists and arts practitioners within
the international Arts, Culture
and Media sectors.

BQD FILM

BQD explores the critical differences between how Black, LGBT+ artists
and arts practitioners navigate
the international media, arts
and cultural sectors, and how
they are treated and portrayed,
versus spoken and unspoken
biases, and perceptions.

BQD features LGBT+ contributors and artists from the UK, Africa and US, capturing real conversations, which often do not reflect those promoted by mainstream media. The film uses compelling shared experience captured via video interview, interspersed with eight artistic pieces, including a variety of practice including spoken word, music, dance, and aerial work, responding to themes explored within the focus group discussions: My Queer Me, The In-Between-Ness and It's Giving Thanks

Production of BQD was originally funded through a Culture Recovery Grant from Arts Council England.

BQD FILM

The film was subsequently awarded a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Storytelling Fund, enabling the team to tour the film around more than 150 UK and international film festivals, with the film being screened more than 30 times, winning 15 awards, with several finalist, semi-finalist and honourable mention places to date.

This generous funding has also enabled organic and paid promotion, attendance for crew and cast at several UK film festivals, digital development, curation of a film festival, and preparation for general release on Amazon Prime in Spring 2025.