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Title: FIRST REELS INTERVIEW: Lucy Enfield, X in Scotland

Reference number: 8531

Date: 1993

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Description: Raw interview footage with director Lucy Enfield, concerning her short film X IN SCOTLAND, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

See also ref. 7978 for complete film.

Credits: [camera Stephen O'Donnell
sd. Stuart Major]

Shotlist: Raw interview footage with director Lucy Enfield, concerning her short film X IN SCOTLAND, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

Discusses:

Tape 1:- Part documentary and part drama, and tries to explain why Malcolm X's words are so important to African and Asian Scots today considering that X was speaking in the 50s and 60s in the States. Spike Lee's film biography of Malcolm X. 'X fashion' this film gives voice to people who Malcolm X spoke for. Scots whose experiences have politicised them. People whose day to day realities experience defy the myth that there is no racism in Scotland. Dedicated the film to Ahmed Sheikh, a Somalian refugee who was killed in racist attack in Edinburgh in 1989. Mentions interviews with African and Asian Scots in the film regarding racism they have experienced. The film-makers wanted to dramatise one of Malcolm X's quotes. Specifically chose style of film to get away from 'X' being 'street, fashion etc' and put them in a more serious context

Tape 2:- How the interviewees were involved in the conception and execution Joseph Manique (?) who co-scripted the film with her. Collaborative project. Some scenes were staged, a 'reconstruction', although based on real life answers from people interviews on the street. The power of words. The commercialism and hype around the 'X' motif, will hopefully lead to more people finding out about Malcolm X and his politics. Poem by Kokumo Rocks talking about the position of Black people in Scotland. Symbolism of the table and the diners.