An animated film produced in Manchester has won a BAFTA. Two Black Boys in Paradise, which was filmed in the Cheetham Hill area, was awarded the 2026 BAFTA Film Award for British Short Animation.

Perhaps buried amid a rather distressing fallout from the BAFTAs was the delight that the creators of Two Black Boys in Paradise won the award for Best British Short Animation. The film, directed by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Directed by Baz Sells and narrated by Jordan Stephens, the nine-minute film follows two Black queer teens navigating a modern ...

Exmouth Community College welcomed BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and Stonewall Book Award-winning writer Dean Atta earlier this term.

Acclaimed poet and performer Dean Atta’s coming-of-age novel follows Michael Angeli, a mixed-race gay teen in the U.K., as he wrestles with his Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican identity, as well as his ...

Ben Jackson and Dean Atta accept the British Short Animation Award for 'Two Black Boys in Paradise' on stage during the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 TWO BLACK Boys in Paradise won the prestigious 2026 EE ...

Sunday’s (22 February) televised BAFTA ceremony was glaringly light on LGBTQ+ stories, bar Harry Lighton’s leather romcom Pillion. Despite three nominations, it didn’t manage to take a gong home. Yet ...

More than 700 students from schools in Exeter and East Devon were inspired by a visit of BAFTA winning storyteller, writer ...

Matt Bondurant: Author will sign and discuss “Oleander City.” 6:30 p.m., Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet; 713-523-0701, brazosbookstore.com Epic Pride: Authors Dean Atta, Sonora Reyes, Kevin ...