Blacks Can’t Swim REWIND Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: New film documentary offers hope to youth who could have ended up on the wrong side of the track
Ed Accura, the producer behind the feature film documentary A Film Called Blacks Can’t Swim and Blacks Can’t Swim: The Sequel officially announces the follow up, Blacks Can’t Swim: REWIND, set for global release on July 4th, 2022.
The film documentary features scenes based on lived experiences combined with real interview footage.
Blacks Can’t Swim: The Sequel told the stories, fears and anxieties of 14 to 26-year-olds and the reasons why they do or do not swim. The new film documentary REWINDS back to speak with parents and adults within the African, Caribbean, and Asian communities to understand the effects their relationship with water has had on the youth of today.
Blacks Can’t Swim: REWIND follows two separate stories – that of both a 15-year-old boy and a girl. Both struggle with the effects of the stigmas and stereotypes that have helped shape the narrative and thought process as to why the disproportionate number of African, Caribbean and Asians in England do not swim.
Javell is a 15-year-old boy, from a low socioeconomic background struggling with general direction and motivation of realistic career and life choices. He is presented with a career choice that could change his life forever, but will his disengagement with swimming be an obstacle?
Tyra is a 15-year-old girl from a middle-class background who has swum all her life and has the prospect of becoming an elite swimmer. Now, however, she is experiencing social, emotional and physical changes, which are making her consider walking away from swimming altogether.
Accura said the film documentary has already superseded its expectation and propelled it to another level. The aim was to continue highlighting the issue of a disproportionate number of African, Caribbean and Asians that do not swim, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that it has already given the youth involved the motivation, direction, and hope to seek a better life.
By working with mentoring charities like Kick Off@3, the film documentary is not only highlighting the importance of water safety, drowning prevention, aquatic career pathways etc, it is now inspiring youth to put down the knife and walk away from crime.
Accura co-founded the Black Swimming Association (BSA) with Seren Jones, Danielle Obe and Alice Dearing. The BSA was set up two years ago to champion inclusivity, representation, and diversity in aquatics; highlighting the value of swimming as an essential life-saving skill and showcasing aquatic opportunities and aquatic career pathways which are otherwise invisible to African, Caribbean and Asian communities.
According to official figures released by Sport England, 95% of Black adults and 80% of Black children do not swim, similarly 93% of Asian adults and 78% of Asian children do not swim.
Danielle Obe, Chair for the BSA, said
