Candy Arts CIC · African Caribbean Centre, Leicester
Documentaries, soundtracks and heritage projects made with young people and communities. Watch, listen and explore our work.
Featured documentary
A Candy Arts film exploring Leicestershire’s connection to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Made with film production workshops and open debates at the Highfields Centre.
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Leicestershire’s connections to the transatlantic slave trade and the wider legacy of slavery in Britain.
Leicester’s Black People’s Liberation Party and the wider Black Power movement in the city, told first-hand.
The history of Leicester’s African Caribbean Centre and the community action that helped establish it.
A community documentary exploring the death of Sylvester Koroma Jr and the wider impact of serious youth violence.
Leicester participants on a Roots Tour in The Gambia, exploring heritage, identity and diaspora connections.
How young people are represented in discussions of crime, safety and public space.
Youth practitioner Raymond Douglas on the social, cultural and economic conditions behind serious youth violence.
Short films celebrating women whose lives and achievements form part of Leicester’s social and cultural history.
Heritage and community stories
How Safe Is Our Streets?
Visions of Black Liberation
Rothley, Slavery & Me
Junior
The Gambia Roots Tour
How the Centre Was Won — Official Documentary
Watch from episode 1
Undisclosed Voices of Black Girls
HerStory
MinusViolence with Raymond Douglas
Badman
With youth practitioner Raymond Douglas
Schools, Gangs and Safeguarding
Guns & Gangs but where are “God’s People”?
Culturally Competent Rehabilitation
Postcodism
Invisibility Syndrome
Rites of Passage
No Industry. More Violence!
Narcism & Hyper Consumerism, a Recipe for Nihilism?
Serious Youth Violence, The Drug of the Nation?
Made with young people and local performers
CMDP: Lip Sync Challenge 2018
The Day Before Summer
Badman 1
Badman 2
Badman 3
Badman 4
Badman 5
Badman 6
Podcasts, live music and music for screen
Marcus Joseph: live performance 2
Marcus Joseph: live performance 1
Undisclosed Voices of Black Girls: Episode 1
Undisclosed Voices of Black Girls: Episode 2
Undisclosed Voices of Black Girls: Episode 3
Undisclosed Voices of Black Girls: Episode 4
What we do
Documentaries on Leicester’s Black history, community portraits and filmed discussions.
Live music filming, podcasts and music for film and TV.
Workshops, mentoring and free introductions to careers in media.
Oral histories and community storytelling, from Highfields to the wider county.
Film & video production
We film documentaries, interviews, events and promotional content for organisations, and we run heritage and community film projects. The same team makes our own work.
Our projects have been supported by
Get involved
Whether you want to join a project, partner with us or commission a film, start with a message. We’re based at the African Caribbean Centre, Leicester.
