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Amma Asante

December 2022

  • Grace Dent with her podcast guest Amma Asante

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S4 E9: Amma Asante, film-maker

    Grace’s guest this week is the Bafta award winning director Amma Asante. From her critically acclaimed films such as Belle, and A United Kingdom, to her work on TV shows such as The Handmaid’s Tale and Mrs America, Amma is a giant of the film-making world. She pops round to Grace’s to discuss her teenage days on the set of Grange Hill, how she fell in love at the Europol canteen, and the importance of Mr Kipling. And, of course, the comfort foods that have seen her through it all

May 2022

  • Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode photographed by David Vintiner for the Observer New Review.

    You ask the questions
    Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’

    Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits

March 2021

  • Sir Lenny Henry smiling

    Lenny Henry tells black Britons: get Covid jab to avoid being left behind

    Open letter by comic and other black cultural figures encourages wider vaccine take-up

July 2020

  • First black woman to be elected to Congress ... Uzo Aduba as Shirley Chisholm in Mrs America.

    'Chisholm made Obama possible': director Amma Asante on Mrs America's real star

    She put her mark on The Handmaid’s Tale. Now the British director is working on Mrs America, which stars Cate Blanchett as an infamous anti-feminist. But that’s not who’s caught Asante’s eye

May 2019

  • Amma Asante 2094 By claire Rothstein for Lancome 2019

    This much I know
    Amma Asante: ‘When my parents came to the UK, signs on doors said: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’

    The writer and director, 49, on her schoolmate Naomi Campbell, wearing makeup as armour – and being an awful cook
  • Where Hands Touch - film still

    Where Hands Touch review – misjudged interracial Nazi-era romance

    Amandla Stenberg plays a biracial teenager who falls for a young German officer in Amma Asante’s uncomfortable second world war drama
  • Amma Asante, 2019

    A secret romance: the director who is confronting Nazis, race and bigotry

    Amma Asante’s new movie follows the story of a biracial girl during the Third Reich. How much of it reflects the film-maker’s fears of where we are heading now?

September 2018

  • Amandla Stenberg in Where Hands Touch

    First look review
    Where Hands Touch review – interracial Nazi romance is a well-intentioned bore

    Amma Asante follows up A United Kingdom with a potentially fascinating yet ultimately uninvolving story of a biracial German girl falling for a Nazi

January 2018

  • Lysette Anthony, actor; Alice Evans, actor; Ramy El-Bergamy, on-screen diversity executive, C4; Amma Asante, director; Kate Kinninmont, CEO of Women in Film & Television UK; Rebecca O’Brien, producer, Sixteen Films; Alison Owen, producer, Monumental Pictures; Hope Dickson Leach, director and co-founder of Raising Films

    After #MeToo
    'Weinstein was the industry. I was just another actress': shaking up film and TV

    The women and men changing their industry

July 2017

  • Confectioners Paul, Andy, Cynthia and Diana get Tudor in The Sweet Makers.

    TV review
    The Sweet Makers: A Tudor Treat review – not just a sugary concoction

    This was familar but pleasurable fare as modern-day confectioners were given the task of making sweets the 16th-century way. Plus: Amma Asante on The South Bank Show

December 2016

  • Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in A United Kingdom.

    Observer critics' review of 2016
    Mark Kermode: best films of 2016

    A journey into blindness, strange magic from Japan, and an Iranian spine-tingler are among the year’s must-sees

November 2016

  • Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in A United Kingdom.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    A United Kingdom review – black king to white queen…

  • David Oyelowo

    Film talk
    David Oyelowo: 'There's resistance to films with black protagonists' – video interview

October 2016

  • Amma Assante photographed at the Observer studios.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: October 2016

  • David Oyelowo Headlines BLACK STAR Symposium At BFI London Film Festival<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 06: David Oyelowo attends BFI London Film Festival BLACK STAR Symposium on October 6, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for BFI)

    David Oyelowo: 'People of colour have been expunged from British history'

  • 'A United Kingdom' - Press Conference - 60th BFI London Film Festival<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 05: (L-R) Actress Rosamund Pike, director Amma Asante and actor David Oyelowo attend the 'A United Kingdom' press conference during the 60th BFI London Film Festival at The Mayfair Hotel on October 5, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)

    Amma Asante on A United Kingdom: 'People were comforted a woman of colour was telling this story'

  • Amma Asante photographed last month by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review.

    Amma Asante: ‘I’m here to disrupt expectations’

September 2016

  • Empire Live; Women On Screen Panel<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 25: Amma Asante takes part in a 'Women on Screen' Panel Discussion as part of Empire Live at The O2 Arena on September 25, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images )

    Amma Asante: film industry chiefs 'don't trust female directors'

    Director of A United Kingdom says that women are pigeonholed into making ‘certain types of movies’ due to ‘misguided distrust’ from executives
  • The European premiere of Amma Asante’s The United Kingdom. starring Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo, will launch the festival.

    Awards, high-profile stars, box-office hits: black cinema enters a new era

    With the work of black artists at the heart of this year’s London film festival, the organisers are celebrating a success that’s long overdue
  • 2016 Toronto International Film Festival - Portraits<br>TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 09: Actor David Oyelowo (L) and screenwriter Amma Asante pose for a portrait during the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival at the Intercontinental Hotel on September 9, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Maarten de Boer/Getty Images)

    David Oyelowo in Toronto: 'It's absolutely inexcusable female directors are marginalised'

    The actor, who has two films directed by women premiering at Tiff, also attacks British period films for not featuring black characters and says he will always ‘be an advocate for diversity’
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