The Body Beautiful

1991, drama

23 minutes

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged,...

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Cast

Madge Onwurah

Mother

Sian Martin

Sian Martin

Daughter

Brian Bovell

Brian Bovell

Youth

Maureen Douglass

Young Mother

Crew

Camera

Directing

Ngozi Onwurah

Director

Editing

Liz Webber

Editor

Production

Kate Ogborn

Executive producer

Ben Gibson

Executive producer

Simon Onwurah

Producer

Lin Solomon

Producer

Sound

Mags Scholes

Boom operator

Jonathon Hirst

Original music composer

Anthony Quigley

Original music composer

Richard Gray

Sound recordist

Writing

Ngozi Onwurah

Writer

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