Ed Accura adds dramatised sections to his 2020 film investigating the lack of black swimmers in the UK
In this feature-length extension of his 2020 documentary A Film Called Blacks Can’t Swim, producer and writer Ed Accura devotes further time pondering the titular myth. It’s immediately clear that it’s a case of don’t, not can’t. But however it has come about, this shibboleth is now responsible for an astonishing statistic: 95% of black adults in the
UK and 80% of black children do not swim. As the film points out multiple times, this has life-threatening implications.