{"id":62450,"date":"2026-10-10T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/film-shares-rich-tapestry-of-lives-of-bristols-windrush-children\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T13:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:31:47","slug":"film-shares-rich-tapestry-of-lives-of-bristols-windrush-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/film-shares-rich-tapestry-of-lives-of-bristols-windrush-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Film shares &#8216;rich tapestry&#8217; of lives of Bristol&#8217;s Windrush children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Many of the people that we approached to film have had brilliant careers. These are people that I&#8217;ve looked up to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The thing that connected us a lot was the household &#8211; the Caribbean front room that you couldn&#8217;t go into. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are items that we all shared &#8211; the glass fish that were in all the Caribbean homes. They popped up in the film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Griffith said watching Pascal&#8217;s directorial &#8220;talent flourish and seeing her bringing it to the screen was just moving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eugene-Hart and Beverly Douglas, who was also in the film, have recreated their version of the Caribbean home in a separate exhibition called Dominican Front Room, which can be visited at the Undershed before going into the screening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i>First Born Second: Voices of the Children of the Windrush Era premieres at the Watershed in Bristol on 29 October.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckvg6njz9z4zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She said: &#8220;Many of the people that we approached to film have had brilliant careers. These are people that I&#8217;ve looked up to. &#8220;The thing that connected us a lot was the household &#8211; the Caribbean front room that you couldn&#8217;t go into. &#8220;There are items that we all shared &#8211; the glass fish that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62452,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62450\/revisions\/62452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}