Rob Mitchell; A Night to Remember

Rob Mitchell is a Creative Media Producer who has worked in Bristol, primarily on the topics of race, identity, community, personal development and transatlantic slavery.
He is also a writer, spoken word artist and Reiki practitioner.

A Night to Remember is a film he directed in 2000, to mark the 20th anniversary of the St Paul’s Uprising, aka ‘riots’. The film was commissioned by BBC Inside Out and produced by Available Light, with David Parker and Hamish Beeston as producers. 

Rob will speak about how the making of that film illustrated the importance of that event in 1980, for Bristol and the UK. Now with the post-2020 consciousness – following the murder of George Floyd in the US and the subsequent toppling of Colston Statue at a ‘Black Lives Matter’ demo, what has been the impact on ‘race relations’ in the city and how do issues of race relations an equality now play out to a very different generation of ‘black and white’ people, in a very different world.