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Still from Legacy GB 2006

Campbell is an award-winning filmmaker who tackles issues like memory/loss and shame in African diasporic communities. She remember in her films the things we try to forget. Campbell's work has been at the Arnolfini - Black Moving Cube, Tate Britain, Frameline, OutFest, and Channel Four TV

Campbell has produced and directed for galleries, television and the corporate market. Her titles include the award-winning BD Women (1994), Viva Tabatha (1996) and Paradise Lost (2003). She made Broken Chain (2008) a BBC/Film London in March 2008. Other titles include the award-winning Legacy (2006) which explores a personal take on the lasting impact of slavery on Black families and Fem (2007), a butch homage to queer femininity. Campbell’s body of work was honoured by the Queer Black Cinema festival in New York in March 2009.

Image, Memory and Representation was a retrospective of her work which was programmed at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2007.

She was invited to programme the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2004 – 2005. She was also the festival director for The Fire This Time! – Queering Black History Month 2006 which focussed on the work of queer artists of colour for Black History Month.

She has written published short stories and articles on film, sexuality and gender for Diva Magazine, Feminist Review, The Pink Paper, Critical Quarterly, Chroma Magazine, BFM Magazine, Luxonline and BFI Screenonline.

Campbell was also the DoP for Bend It (2008) directed by Jules Nurrish, Camera for Do I Love You? (2002) And Tick Tock Lullaby (2007) directed by Lisa Gornick.