H. O. Nazareth

Born in Bombay, British India, of Goan descent,{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40039183|title=Introduction|journal=Journal of South Asian Literature|first=Peter|last=Nazareth|author-link=Peter Nazareth|volume=18 – Goan Literature: A Modern Reader |number=1|page=3|date=Winter–Spring 1983|jstor=i40039183|access-date=21 December 2020}} Hubert Oscar Nazareth at the age of 21 in 1965 went to Britain, where he worked at various jobs, including computer programmer.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2fUS0OHs9R0C&q=%22H.+O.+Nazareth%22+%22computer+programmer%22&pg=PA289|title=Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa|editor-first=Jerry|editor-last=Pinto|chapter=Notes on Contributors|page=289|publisher=Penguin Books India|date=2006|isbn=9780143100812}} He went on to study philosophy and politics at the University of Kent, and qualified as a barrister. Nazareth experienced racist treatment in searching for work in the UK, and after witnessing the way police harassed his Afro-Caribbean friends while they left him alone he joined the British Black Panther movement.{{cite journal|url=http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65918/1/Angelo%20-%20JCHR.pdf|title='Black oppressed people all over the world are one': the British Black Panthers' grassroots internationalism, 1969–1973|last=Angelo|first=Anne-Marie|journal=Journal of Civil and Human Rights|year=2018|volume=4|number=1|pages=64–97 (pp. 10–11)|doi=10.5406/jcivihumarigh.4.1.0064|issn=2378-4245|access-date=20 December 2020}}

As well as writing and performing poetry in London, Nazareth worked as a journalist contributing to the radical political magazine The Leveller and to Time Out, where he was later a member of the group that set up the alternative listings magazine City Limits in 1981.

After interviewing Trinidadian director Horace Ové for The Leveller, Nazareth co-wrote with him the script of the television film The Garland (1981),{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458374/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_3|title=Play for Today: The Garland| website=IMDb}}{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b71d35d81|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717062419/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b71d35d81|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 July 2020|title=Shai Mala Khani The Garland (1981)|website=BFI|access-date=20 December 2020}} which led to the creation of an independent production company named Penumbra. Alongside Ové and Nazareth, other members of Penumbra Productions included Michael Abbensetts, Lindsay Barrett, Margaret Busby, Farrukh Dhondy, and Mustapha Matura.{{cite journal|title=2015: The Year of Being Connected, Exhibition-wise|first=Margaret|last=Busby|journal=Wasafiri|volume=31|issue=4|date=November 2016}} In 1983, Penumbra Productions made a 60-minute film, Talking History (directed by Nazareth), featuring C. L. R. James in dialogue with E. P. Thompson,{{YouTube|MI7n7M6nAOA|"E.P. Thompson and C.L.R. James"}}{{cite web|url= https://www.timeout.com/movies/talking-history|title=Talking History|website=Time Out|access-date=20 December 2020}} and Penumbra also filmed a series of six of James's lectures, shown on Channel 4 television, the topics being: Shakespeare; cricket; American society; Solidarity in Poland; the Caribbean; and Africa.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b94fdb349|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411110828/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b94fdb349|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2020|title=Penumbra Productions|website=BFI}}

Nazareth was producer of the magazine show Sunday East for Channel 4 in the 1980s. He and director Faris Kermani formed the company Azad Productions (1984–1989) with a focus on programmes for people from the Indian subcontinent, such as in 1986 the television documentaries A Fearful Silence in 1986 (about domestic violence in the Asian community), and A Corner of a Foreign Field (directed by Udayan Prasad) on the lives of Pakistanis in the UK. Among the films Nazareth has produced are Suffer the Children (1988, on apartheid South Africa), Doctors and Torture (1990,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4682352/fullcredits?ref_=ttrel_sa_1|title=Doctors and Torture (1990) Full Cast & Crew|publisher=IMDb}} about medical involvement in torture in Latin America), China Rocks: The Long March of Cui Jian (1991); Bombay and Jazz (1992),{{cite web|url= https://bluerhythm.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/bombay-and-jazz-a-documentary-1992/|title=Bombay and Jazz – A documentary 1992|website=BlueRhythm|date=12 June 2011|access-date=20 December 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/don-cherry-and-his-bombay-gumbo/|title=Don Cherry and His Bombay Gumbo|first=Naresh|last=Fernandes|website=Taj Mahal Foxtrot|date=1 March 2014|access-date=21 December 2020}} and Stories My Country Told Me,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kLGE1ayJ7M&lc=Ugi8qimTwcv2l3gCoAEC|title=Stories My Country Told Me: Eqbal Ahmad on the Grand Trunk Road|date=11 October 2013|via=YouTube}} on culture and nationalism.

Also a poet,{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40039183|title=Nine poems|first=H. O.|last=Nazareth|journal=Journal of South Asian Literature|volume=18 – Goan Literature: A Modern Reader|number=1|date=Winter–Spring 1983|jstor=i40039183|access-date=21 December 2020}} Nazareth published a poetry collection, entitled Lobo, in 1984.{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7bI8AAAACAAJ|title=Lobo|publisher= A. Jussawalla for Clearing House|date=1984|page=67|isbn= 9780946605002}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iI-9CwAAQBAJ&q=Nazareth|title=A History of Indian Poetry in English|editor-first=Rosinka|editor-last=Chaudhuri|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2016|chapter=Clearing House Books|isbn=9781316483275}} In addition to writing for The Leveller, as a journalist he has written for such publications as the New Statesman,{{cite magazine|first=H. O.|last= Nazareth|title=Still an optimist|magazine=New Statesman|date=1 July 1983|pages=8–9}} New African{{cite magazine|title=C.L.R. James: The Black Plato|first=H. O.|last=Nazareth|magazine=New African|page=59|date=June 1982}} and Marxism Today.{{cite journal|url=http://banmarchive.org.uk/collections/mt/pdf/90_04_42.pdf|title=Out Of The Ghetto|first=H. O.|last=Nazareth|journal=Marxism Today|date=April 1990}} He is a contributor to Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa (Penguin India, 2006), edited by Jerry Pinto.

• 1981: The Garland (BBC, Play for Today) – co-writer with Horace Ové[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458374/ "Play for Today: Season 11, Episode 20 – The Garland (10 Mar. 1981)"], IMDb.
• 1983: Caribbean (featuring C. L. R. James) – producer
• 1983: Talking History (featuring C. L. R. James and E. P. Thompson) – director, producer, researcher
• 1983: Cricket (featuring C. L. R. James) – producer
• 1983: American Society (featuring C. L. R. James) – producer
• 1985: Music Fusion (featuring Imdad Husain and Khomiso Khan) – producer
• 1985: Africa (featuring C. L. R. James) – producer
• 1985: Khomiso Khan at Camden Lock – producer
• 1985: Shakespeare (featuring C. L. R. James) – producer
• 1986: A Corner of a Foreign Field (Channel 4) – producer{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b704d081d|title=A Corner of a Foreign Field (1986)|publisher=BFI|access-date=21 December 2020}}{{dead link|date=October 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• 1988: Suffer the Children (BBC) – producer{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7998eda0|title=Suffer the Children (1988)|publisher=BFI|access-date=21 December 2020}}{{dead link|date=October 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• 1990: Doctors and Torture (BBC Inside Story series) – producer
• 1991: China Rocks: The Long March of Cui Jian – producer{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6501410/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0|title=China Rocks: The Long March of Cui Jian (1991)|publisher=IMDb|access-date=21 December 2020}}
• 1991: Repomen – producer
• 1992: Bombay and Jazz (BBC) – writer and director{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6500936/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_1|title=Bombay and Jazz (1992)|publisher=IMDb|access-date=21 December 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7be21233|title=Bombay and Jazz (1992)|publisher=BFI|access-date=21 December 2020}}{{dead link|date=October 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• 1993: The Curry Boys – producer{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c699deb|title=The Curry Boys (1993)|publisher=BFI|access-date=21 December 2020}}{{dead link|date=October 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• 1993: Gone to the Dogs – producer{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7ce28264|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128124233/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7ce28264|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 November 2021|title=Gone to the Dogs (1993)|publisher=BFI|access-date=21 December 2020}}
• 1996: Stories My Country Told Me – director{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f770915|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616151519/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f770915|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 June 2021|title=Stories My Country Told Me (1996)|publisher=BFI|access-date=21 December 2020}}

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• [https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3620955&R=3620955 "Writers talk: Farrukh Dhondy with H. O. Nazareth"], Toronto Public Library. 2014, eVideo.
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xcx1l “Art in the Age of Black Power, History of Racist Ideas in US”], BBC Radio 3, Free Thinking, 12 July 2017.
• [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1672213/?ref_=tt_ov_wr "H. O. Nazareth"] at IMDb.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20200411112517/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba113788d H. O. Nazareth Filmography] at BFI.

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