Emmys spotlight: Steve McQueen on achieving global impact with the personal Black British stories of ‘Small Axe’

Steve McQueen

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UK writer/director Steve McQueen tells Screen how his deeply personal Small Axe films – about the experience of West Indian immigrants in London – achieved unexpected global resonance

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