Two Black Boys in Paradise was produced by Manchester-based One6th Animation – a production company founded by Jackson and Sells in 2018.<\/p>\n
Described by Jackson as a “genuine passion project” for both him and director Sells – the film took five years to complete and has won 22 international awards since its release in November 2025.<\/p>\n
The stop-motion short follows Edan, 19, and Dula, 18, – two young black boys on a journey toward self-acceptance.<\/p>\n
Inspired by Atta’s poem, There is (still) Love Here, the film explores the themes of race, sexuality, and identity – and tackles homophobia and racism through a tender, hopeful lens.<\/p>\n
The plot follows the teens’ love for each other and their refusal to conceal it, following their journey to a “paradise free from shame and judgement”, as described by One6th Animation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Black Boys in Paradise was produced by Manchester-based One6th Animation – a production company founded by Jackson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-443280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}