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George

‘George’ is an intimate portrait of George Wyndham, Sierra Leone’s most famous Paralympian. This is the story about one man’s struggle to avoid homelessness that has wider implications for billions of others living in marginal communities worldwide. Will George succeed in finding a new home? Or will he, like millions of others, be left behind?

Show Time

January 21, 2025 @ 7:30pm

Credits

Director

Charles Browne-Cole
Tom Young

Writer

Charles Browne-Cole
Tom Young

Producer

Charles Browne-Cole
Tom Young

Cast

George Wyndham

Director Biography

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Charles Browne-Cole was born in 1983 in Bristol, UK. As a qualified and practising British Architect he embarked on a new project that continued his passion for storytelling and space to make George, his first feature-length documentary film.

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Tom Young was born in 1981 in Leeds, North Yorkshire. A journalist by trade, he likes to tell stories in all their forms. In 2019 he made a feature film called RIBBLEHEAD which won awards at several film festivals, including Blue Whiskey and the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival. GEORGE is his first documentary.

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Director Statement


Charles says: As someone with a disability, who one day will probably be confined to a wheelchair as well as from a migrant background, I can relate to the challenges of adversity that disability brings with an awareness of the world beyond the UK. While I have my own challenges, George’s story took anything I have experienced to the extreme.

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With the global competition for resources growing, I was inspired to understand how one man’s story illustrates the struggle of billions of others across the world in an even less fortunate position than him. George’s problems are all of our problems.

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What began as a journey to delve into ‘the other’ unfolded into a discourse on kinship, friendship and familiarity.

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Tom says: The mission statement of Unfolded Films is to tell stories that wouldn’t otherwise be told. George’s story of determination in the face of numerous obstacles is, at first glance, a familiar one.

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Two things make it different. The first is George himself - quiet, calm and understated, he is not the classic gung-ho hero.

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The second is the location. Sierra Leone is a unique country. Settled by freed slaves in the early 19th century, its problems over years have been well documented. Images of civil war and child soldiers still spring to mind for many who haven’t visited.

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We wanted to show something else. We wanted to show the humming cities, the hulking architecture, the new roads, the foreign investment. And the pride of a people who feel their nation’s time is now.

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