Horace Ové

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 filmmakers A fact notable for his Guinness World Record for being the first black British filmmaker to direct a featurelength film Pressure 1975 He was knighted in 2022 and passed away in 2023 following a battle with Alzheimers