Jemima + Johnny

The friendship of a young white boy and a black girl reaches out across the generations in this uplifting short by South African-born actor and anti-Apartheid activist Lionel Ngakane. This is a clip from the 30 minute film.

Against a background media narrative suggesting ever-worsening racial tensions, it offered a refreshingly optimistic take on black/white relations in a post-riots Notting Hill. Jemima + Johnny won its director an award at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, the first black British film to be so honoured.