Film London: FLAMIN Film Production Award 2020 Awarded to Michelle Williams Gamaker

The Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) was launched in 2005 as a one-stop resource to provide artists working in the moving image with access to funding, guidance and development opportunities. Through unique commissioning funds, FLAMIN has commissioned over 150 productions, and supported the careers of countless other artists with programmes of one-to-one advice sessions, residencies and workshops.

Film London is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 FLAMIN Productions awards. Artist filmmakers Onyeka Igwe and Michelle Williams Gamaker will receive funding, tailored support and mentoring as they develop their new moving image projects.

Michelle Williams Gamaker’sThieves (working title) is a fantasy adventure, based on the silent black and white 1924 and Technicolor 1940 films of the same name: The Thief of Bagdad. Chinese-American actor Anna May Wong and Indian-born American actor Sabu, both starred in the originals playing sidekick characters that were denigrating by definition.

For Thieves they are recast with Williams Gamaker's long-term collaborators Krishna Istha (Dissolution trilogy 2017-2019) and Dahong Wang (The Bang Straws 2021). As an extension of Williams Gamaker's body of work in Fictional Activism, Thieves is a tale of Fictional Revenge, in which Anna May Wong and Sabu return to take over the film set. The film is intended as a metaphorical 'bloodletting', in which a cathartic, creative reimagining of film history unfolds.

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