Category: Arts & Culture
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![GUAP Interviews: Multidisciplinary Visual Artist; Safeen James On Short Film ‘1 In Our Hands’ [@safeenjames]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Unknown-8-180x180.jpeg)
Tell us a little about yourself? My name is Safeen James and I am a British born Nigerian. I consider myself to be a multidisciplinary visual artist. My work discusses themes around cultural identity and is almost a manifestation of my thoughts of the community I belong to. Whether that’s in the UK or Nigeria. What…
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![GUAP Interviews: 24-Year Old French Filmmaker; Nathan Cassin on His Short Film Vlog Londres [@aernocta]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Unknown-180x180.png)
Nathan Cassin On His Short Film Vlog Londres & Publishing His LGBTQ+ Fairytale Tell us a little about yourself? My name is Nathan CASSIN, I’m a 24 years old french traveler, cinema lover, short films maker, author of several LGBTQ+ published books, and an activist. My work aims at fighting patriarchal by supporting women’s rights,…
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We Hear From Black British Young People On Their Experience with Police in the UK In this three part series entitled ‘The UK Is Not Innocent’ we sit down with six individuals to listen to their stories of Police Brutality within the UK. In the first Episode we have two Stories of Police Brutality from…
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![GUAP Premiere: Elifcan Yazgün On Short Film ‘Cosmos With Venus’ [@elifjam]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/PINK-ROOM-180x180.jpg)
We interview Elifcan Yazgün on the short film ‘Cosmos With Venus’. Cosmos with Venus follows the story of Eren, a young Turkish girl who is about to get asked for her hand in marriage. Something is holding her back, however. An unresolved issue from her past, a journey she takes with the help of Venus, the…
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![GUAP Interviews: South London-Based Filmmaker Kieran Etoria-King On His Short Film “Homesick” [@KieranEK]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2019-12-05-at-22.53.52-180x180.png)
Kieran Etoria-King’s “Homesick” is a short documentary about migration, parenthood and where we choose to call home. Tell us a little about yourself? I’m Kieran, and I’m twenty-six from South London. I work as a researcher for TV documentaries, but in my own work I’m really interested in exploring identity, nationality and how people establish a…
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![Contribution: Anti-semitism and the black community – a complicated relationship by Martyn Ewoma [@MartynEwoma]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/skynews-wiley-rapper_5052627-180x180.jpg)
It seems in life there are three certainties. Death, taxes and musicians you really like going on ignorant twitter rants that make it hard to enjoy their music. Wiley, the godfather of grime has long been flying the flag for U.K. music and trying to ensure that black British music is respected independent of U.S.…
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![GUAP Premiere: University of Arts Alumni; Matt Gomez Pennington On His Short Film “A Recipe For Disaster” [@Gomez_nu]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMAGE-3-180x180.png)
We interview Matt Gomez Pennington on his short film ‘A Recipe For Disaster’. “A Recipe For Disaster follows the story of Miss C, on her quest to protect her neighbourhood from sin. This comical silent visual contains six chapters, which explore the discourse of Miss C taking action to cleanse her community from the wrath…
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![GUAP Interviews: Cheryl Jordan Osei On Her Film “Y LOVE YOU, Y2K” Exploring Black Identity & Nostalgia [@chezzzydopez]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/YY2K_4-180x180.png)
Cheryl Jordan Osei is a South-London based filmmaker who created ‘Y LOVE YOU, Y2K?’ which is a Fashion Film that explores the early 2000s through a love triangle. The film centres around the complications of young love and celebrates Black British identity using Garage and Grime to represent an era of Black Britishness in Fashion and…
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![Be A Part of Channel 4’s Upcoming Documentary, “Black Hair Stories” In Collaboration With The Author of “Don’t Touch My Hair” [@EmmaDabiri]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/115772416_952661505251078_7463355252453346694_n-180x180.jpg)
Channel 4 & Emma Dabiri Are Bringing 15 People Together To Discuss Black Hair From the production company that was a part of Netflix’s “The Disappearance of Madeline McCann and BBC’s The People Vs The NHS. Pulse Films is looking for black and mixed-race people to take part in a documentary for Channel 4 exploring…
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![GUAP Premiere: New Hampshire Born Director, Writer & Animator; Noah Mauchly On Short Film “John And Friends” [@idontnoahmockley]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/John-and-Friends-screenshot-1-180x180.jpg)
We interview Noah Mauchly on his short film ‘John and Friends’. “John and Friends” explores the tricky parts of relationships, romantic or otherwise, through the use of real-life interviews thread throughout the story of a rabbit, John, and his struggles navigating the subject. Tell us a little about yourself? My name is Noah Mauchly, I…