94 mins | 12A | English
St Helena is a small island in the middle of the Atlantic, reachable only by boat. When the British Government decides to build an airport, initial work reveals 325 skeletons, the remains of some of the 9,000 Africans ‘liberated’ from slavery only to be stranded on the island and eventually buried in mass unmarked graves. This film follows the efforts of local people and historians to ensure that the authorities provide for a new burial site that allows the dead to be properly memorialised.
A Story of Bones will be preceded by an intro from Dr Cassandra Gooptar, Lecturer in Legacies of Slavery at Wilberforce Institute, Principal Investigator on the Guardian Legacies of Enslavement Project and co-founder of the ECR Network for the Study of Slavery & its Legacies.
Awards: Tribeca Film Festival: Nominee, Best Documentary Feature.
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