There’s an interesting flair to the work of the British documentarian Andy Mundy-Castle. In White Nanny Black Child (2023), he traces the legacy of Britain’s so-called farming experiment, where thousands of Black children from West Africa were adopted by white English families between 1955 and 1995, only to face widespread abuse and prejudice.
The film opens with archival footage and interviews with nine survivors before Mundy-Castle abandons the narrative structure he has built and brings all nine participants into one room to talk about their experiences. His camera is no longer probing; instead, it is observational, and the result
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