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Ep. 2/5 - Lovers Rock
Lovers Rock tells a fictional story of young love at a Blues party in 1980.
The film is an ode to the romantic reggae genre called Lovers Rock, and to the Black youth who found freedom and love in its sound in London house parties, when they were unwelcome in white nightclubs.
Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn makes her screen debut opposite the Baftas 2020 Rising Star award recipient Micheal Ward (Top Boy). Shaniqua Okwok (Boys), Kedar Williams-Stirling (Sex Education), Ellis George (Dr Who), Alexander James-Blake (Top Boy) and Kadeem Ramsay (Blue Story) also star, as well as Francis Lovehall and Daniel Francis-Swaby, who make their screen debuts.
Lovers Rock was co-written by Courttia Newland and Steve McQueen.
Pictured: Reggie (Francis Lovehall), Cynthia (Ellis George)
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