From The-Artist.org:
British film producer and director. He was the first a new wave of black British independent film makers. His parents were from St Lucia. He was a founder member of the Black Workshop, Sankofa, the pioneering black film and video collective, which led to his first television collaboration with Channel 4, the award-winning drama-documentary, Looking For Langston, (1989). (Inspired by the enigmatic sexuality of the US poet Langston Hughes.)