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When the directors of the documentary Injustice, along with their editing and production assistants, assembled in the upstairs rooms of a warehouse in Dalston to put together the final edit, they had some idea that they had made a 'difficult' film. Injustice shows the fight for justice, over a period of five years, by the families of people who all met violent death in police custody.

The difficulty of getting people to see such a film was one accepted by the documentary makers, especially when that documentary was a feature length 'political' film that departed from the general entertainment cinema fare with which we are usually lulled to sleep. Yet the film received rave reviews from those who saw the advance festival screenings ­ the real 'difficulty' came when the Police Association orchestrated a last minute disruption of the premier and followed this up with a campaign of harassment and interference. Why this difficulty with the Police Association? The depiction of people fighting for justice has made the film too difficult to touch for a certain establishment, and the Association was the vehicle for frustration of the film's critique. The demand for an accounting, a reckoning, for justice in law, is one that calls the practices of the Police in multi-racial Britain into question in a radical way.

Injustice won Best Documentary at the recent BFM Film and Television Awards. Perhaps with this award there is even the chance to pressure television stations to show it. Why has an award winning documentary not been snapped up by TV? Apart from a clandestine guerrilla screening 'on Channel Four', when 'friends' of the film projected it in its entirety onto the front wall of the station's London offices in May this year, there has been no TV option. Channel Four had said this was the sort of documentary they 'want' to support, but they, along with all television broadcasters in the UK, have refused to show Injustice. Ironically, Channel Four and BBC Television are co-sponsors of the BFM Film and Television Awards.

Injustice was screened at the Rio Cinema in mid-September. For detailed information including reviews, articles and further screenings of Injustice log on to: www.injusticefilm.co.uk  

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