Julien, Isaac

   b. 1961

   Film-maker

   Isaac Julien lives in London where he works as a film director. He is one of the founding members of Sankofa Black Film Workshop, and the foremost of the new wave of black British independent film makers. He co-directed The Passion of Remembrance with Maureen Blackwood in 1986, and directed This is Not an Aids Ad in 1987. In 1989, he directed the prizewinning short film Looking for Langston (about US poet Langston Hughes). His full-length feature film, Young Soul Rebels (1991), made through the BFI Production Board with a budget of £1.2 million gained the International Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His 1992 two-part documentary series Black & White in Colour for BBC television was shown in the New York Film Festival. In 1993 he made The Attendant for Channel 4 television.

   See also: Black Audio Film Collective; diasporan film-makers

   EUGENE LANGE