Directing
Horace Ové
1939 · Trinidad
14 films
Bio
Born in Trinidad in 1939, Sir Horace Ové, CBE was a British director, writer and artist who emerged in the late '60s and throughout the '70s to become one of the leading UK based black independent film-makers. A fact notable for his Guinness World Record for being the first black British film-maker to direct a feature-length film, Pressure (1975). He was knighted in 2022 and passed away in 2023 following a battle with Alzheimer's.
Filmography
Skateboard Kings
Director
James Baldwin Abroad
Director
King Carnival
Director
Pressure
Director
Playing Away
Director
Baldwin's Nigger
Director
The Garland
Writer
When Love Dies
Director
Stretch Hunter
Director
A Hole in Babylon
Director
Black and White in Colour
Self
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Self – Director (archive footage, 1982)