BLACK SHEEP

Role Interview (2nd Unit ) Director of Photography

Director: Ed Perkins

Producers: Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn

Production Company: Light box and Guardian Films

BLACK SHEEP has been shortlisted in the documentary short subject category for the Oscars 2019.

The 27-minute film explores questions about ethnicity and identity and the compromises people make to fit in. It won the best short documentary award at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in June 2018.

Everything changed for Cornelius Walker on 27 November 2000 when Damilola Taylor was killed. Damilola was 11, the same age as Cornelius. He lived five minutes away. He had the same skin colour. Cornelius's mother, scared for her son's safety, moved their family out of London.