{"id":57989,"date":"2019-04-29T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57989"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:24:17","slug":"new-documentary-being-both-explores-mixed-race-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57989","title":{"rendered":"New documentary \u2018Being Both\u2019 explores mixed-race identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/04\/29\/new-documentary-explores-mixed-race-identity-9346075\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>New documentary \u2018Being Both\u2019 explores mixed-race identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">METRO.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n2019-04-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nmozz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Natalie Morris<\/strong><\/a>, Senior lifestyle Writer<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Metro Embed Video Player\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/video\/embed\/1914854\" width=\"540\" height=\"353\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK\u2019s<\/a> fastest-growing ethnic group is comprised of anyone with parents who have two of more different ethnicities \u2013 and the varieties within that group are almost endless.<\/p>\n<p>The realities of being mixed-race are unique and often overlooked in mainstream narratives, but documentary maker <a href=\"https:\/\/dk.linkedin.com\/in\/ryan-cooper-brown-4543b525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Cooper-Brown<\/a> wants to change that. His new short documentary film <em>Being Both<\/em> tackles issues that directly relate to the mixed-race experience, from displacement and family conflict to racism and fetishisation.<\/p>\n<p>But the film is also brimming with hope and shines a light on the many positives that come with having mixed heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-minute film condenses a series of compelling stories from the mixed-race community. It is an intimate and uplifting short that captures the shared challenges, emotions and histories of mixed-race people from the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denmark<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/04\/29\/new-documentary-explores-mixed-race-identity-9346075\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The realities of being mixed-race are unique and often overlooked in mainstream narratives, but documentary maker Ryan Cooper-Brown wants to change that. His new short documentary film &#8220;Being Both&#8221; tackles issues that directly relate to the mixed-race experience, from displacement and family conflict to racism and fetishisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,83,21,28,125,8,103,10],"tags":[1798,2948,1797,1793,28887,27733,29734],"class_list":["post-57989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-europe","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-uk","tag-denmark","tag-germany","tag-italy","tag-japan","tag-metro-co-uk","tag-natalie-morris","tag-ryan-cooper-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57991,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57989\/revisions\/57991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}