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A key figure in the film and video workshop movement of the early 1980s, Isaac Julien is now a leading international film and video artist, producing work for cinema, television and art galleries. He was born in London s East End on 21 February 1960, one of five children of parents who migrated to Britain from St Lucia: his mother was a nurse, his father a welder. He attended local schools, and in his teens was involved with Four Corners Films, the Newsreel Collective, and the London Youth Dance Theatre. In 1983, while studying fine art and film at St Martin s School of Art, he co-founded Sankofa, a film and video collective dedicated to developing an independent black film culture in the areas of production, exhibition and audience. Under the aegis of the ACTT Workshop Declaration, Sankofa was funded by, among others, the Greater London Council and the British Film Institute.http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/521826/