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World Service,16 Feb 2019,53 mins

Film director Spike Lee

The Arts Hour

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Nikki Bedi is joined by the double Oscar winning VFX supremo Paul Franklin and performer Apphia Campbell, currently starring in her own show inspired by Nina Simone. Spike Lee tells us about his Oscar nominated film BlacKkKlansman . Paul Franklin discusses the Oscar nominated visual effects for First Man which were designed by DNEG, the VFX company he co-founded. Film director Shelly Chopra Dhar explains why she’s putting a lesbian romance at the heart of her new Bollywood film. Actress Regina King talks about her role in the film If Beale Street Could Talk, for which she’s received an Oscar nomination. Apphia Campbell tells Nikki about Black is the Color of my Voice, her one woman show inspired by Nina Simone. Producer and actress Ellen Page explains why she chose to be in the new Netflix series The Umbrella Academy and how she’s hoping to change the industry. British singer and composer P J Harvey allows us behind the scenes as she writes the score for a theatre production of All About Eve, starring Gillian Anderson in the Bette Davis role. Images shows Spike Lee (c) Robyn Beck/Getty Images

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