Director
Horace Ové
87 years · Trinidad · 12 films
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 film-makers. A fact notable for his Guinness World Record for being the first black British film-maker to direct a feature-length film, Pressure (1975). He was knighted in 2022 and passed away in 2023 following a battle with Alzheimer's.
Best known for
Filmography 12
James Baldwin Abroad
2023 · Director
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020 · Self – Director (archive footage, 1982)
Black and White in Colour
1992 · Self
When Love Dies
1990 · Director
Playing Away
1987 · Director
The Garland
1981 · Director, Writer
A Hole in Babylon
1979 · Director, Writer
Skateboard Kings
1978 · Director
Pressure
1976 · Director, Screenplay
On BFI Player Amazon Channel
King Carnival
1973 · Director
Reggae
1971 · Director, Producer
Baldwin's Nigger
1968 · Director
On Criterion Channel