FILM TO BE MADE TELLING THE STORY OF MIXED-RACE ARISTOCRAT IN 18TH CENTURY BRITAIN

September 11, 2012

Via Blouin Artinfo The second feature to be written and directed by the British filmmaker Amma Asante, “Belle” will tell the story of a mixed-race woman raised as an aristocrat in 18th-century England. Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761-1804) was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay of the British navy and an enslaved woman, herself known as Belle. The movie is partially inspired by the above painting (artist unknown), in which Dido, wearing a turban, stands to the right of her orphaned cousin, […]