The award-winning film director Steve McQueen spoke to Insider about “Small Axe,” his collection of five new films set to debut on Amazon Prime Video this week.
Each film explores a different story of West Indian people, living in London between the 1960s to the 1980s, and McQueen told Insider that he has been working on the project for over a decade.
The director also reflected on how the financial success of his 2013 movie “12 Years a Slave” ushered in a new generation of Black filmmakers in Hollywood.
“Just go back and look before ’12 Years a Slave’ and after,” McQueen said. “From a direct result of that, ‘Moonlight’ was made and ‘Selma’ was made because it was made by the same producers.”