Career
Fero, born in Malta, is a renowned filmmaker, activist and educator. His career began in the Fine Arts where he produced experimental art films including Porte Di Roma (1985) for the Arts Council. Critically acclaimed, the film gained widespread press coverage across national and international channels including Cable News Network. Injustice has been screened at more than 70 film festivals around the world, winning several awards, and Fero has travelled with the film across Europe, the United States and the Middle East.
A major screening of the film took place at the European Parliament, where Fero spoke.
The impact of the film led to the reform of investigative and legal processes relating to custodial deaths. Much of his production work continues to be screened on a regular basis and maintains a good public profile, including recent articles in The Guardian.
Fero has directed a number of documentary films around social injustice and ethnic minority issues including commissions for the British Broadcasting Corporation, Channel 4 and Sky television He is also Senior Lecturer of Media Production at Coventry University"s Department of Media as well as Visiting Lecturer on the Master of Arts in Documentary Practice at Brunel University and a Visiting research Fellow at Goldsmith"s College in the Centre for Cultural Studies. He also delivers lectures internationally.
His background in Fine Art and time-based work has recently led to research interest in the practice of a "documentary of force" by engaging in experimental reimaging practices and an essayistic approach that are clearly non-realistic, manipulative and anti-narrative.
He recently produced a short exploring this approach Land Memory People (5mins/2013), which had its premier at the Lanchester Art Gallery. He organised conferences and Film Festivals at the National Film Theatre and continues to present work at conferences, most recently at "Marx at The Movies" at Lancaster University. He recently established the Documentary Film Production Workshops that assists local people to produce short documentaries.
"The Stephen Lawrence case and another Injustice", The Guardian
"Filming Injustice - An interview with Ken Fero", The Multicultural Politic
"Deaths in Police Custody", The Guardian
"State Violence Exposed", Socialist Review
"Injustice aims to rock the system", British Broadcasting Corporation News
"My Tears Will Catch Them", Sight and Sound.
