Philip Donnellan

Movies

Where Do We Go from Here?
Director
BBC documentary exploring the changing lifestyles of the long-entrenched British traveller as society grows more industrialised and wary of those without a fixed abode.
Treasure Island
Producer
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.
Treasure Island
Director
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.
The Colony
Director
A railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados ... Philip Donnellan's Birmingham-based film gives a voice to West Indian immigrants who movingly describe their experiences of trying to integrate into a surprisingly unwelcoming ‘mother country’. Shot in 1964 the film provides an important snapshot of Britain in the early stages of momentous social change and first-generation Afro-Caribbean immigration.
Joe the Chainsmith
Director
A day in the life of Joe, a chainmaker from Cradley Heath near Birmingham, UK in the late 1950s