Which filmmaker was born first, Brad Mays or Horace Ové?
Horace Ové
Brad Mays
Brad Mays (born May 30, 1955) is an independent filmmaker and stage director, living and working in Los Angeles, California.
Horace Ové
Horace Ové, CBE (born 1939), is a British filmmaker, photographer, painter and writer, one of the leading black independent film-makers to emerge in Britain since the post-war period.
 Ové holds the "Guinness World Record" for being the first black British film-maker to direct a feature-length film, "Pressure" (1975).
 In its retrospective history, "100 Years of Cinema", the British Film Institute (BFI) declared: "Horace Ové is undoubtedly a pioneer in Black British history and his work provides a perspective on the Black experience in Britain."
The Bacchae (film)
The Bacchae is an independent film adaptation of Euripides' play "The Bacchae", produced by Lorenda Starfelt and John Morrissey, and directed by Brad Mays. Burning an Illusion
Burning an Illusion is a 1981 British film written and directed by Menelik Shabazz, about a young British-born black woman's love life, mostly shot in London's Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove communities.
 It was only the second British feature to have been made by a black director, following Horace Ové’s 1975 "Pressure", and is described by Stephen Bourne as "the first British film to give a black woman a voice of any kind."
 Imruh Bakari worked with Shabazz and co-founded Kumba productions with him. The Watermelon
The Watermelon is an independent feature film penned by Michael Hemmingson and directed by Brad Mays.
 It is produced by Lorenda Starfelt at LightSong Films in North Hollywood.
"The Watermelon" is Michael Hemmingson's first produced full-length screenplay, and director Brad Mays' fourth feature film. Stage Fright (1989 film)
Stage Fright (1989) is an independent feature film produced and directed by Brad Mays and written by Stanley Keyes.
 It was director Mays' debut film, and it had its premier screening at the 1989 Berlin International Film Festival under the auspices of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Playing Away
Playing Away is a 1987 TV comedy film directed by Horace Ové, from a screenplay by Caryl Phillips.
 In the story, an English cricket team, fictitiously named "Sneddington" (based in Lavenham, Suffolk), invites a team of West Indian heritage based in Brixton (South London) to play a charity game in support of their "Third World Week."
 According to Screenonline, "The gentle comedy of manners and unexpected reversal of white and black stereotypes in "Playing Away" contrasts sharply with the stylistic experimentation and the militant denunciations of racial prejudice in director Horace Ové's earlier feature, "Pressure" (1975)." "
New York Times" reviewer Vincent Canby called it "witty and wise without being seriously disturbing for a minute". Zak Ové
Zak Ové (born 1966) is a British visual artist who works between sculpture, film and photography, living in London, UK, and Trinidad.
 His themes reflect "his documentation of and anthropological interest in diasporic and African history, specifically that which is explored through Trinidadian carnival."
 In work that is "filtered through his own personal and cultural upbringing, with a black Trinidadian father and white Irish mother", he has exhibited widely in Europe, the United States and Africa, participating in international museum shows in London, Dakar, Paris, Dubai, Prague, Berlin, Johannesburg, Bamako and New York City.
 His father is the filmmaker Horace Ové and his sister is the actress Indra Ové. The Orchid House (TV serial)
The Orchid House is a four-part television serial that first aired on British television's Channel 4 from 21 February to 14 March 1991, directed by Horace Ové.
 Its cast featured Diana Quick, Madge Sinclair, Nigel Terry, Elizabeth Hurley, Kate Buffery and Frances Barber, and was based on Phyllis Shand Allfrey's only novel of the same name. Pressure (film)
Pressure is a 1976 British drama film and the first feature-length fiction film directed by a Black film-maker in Britain.
 Directed by Horace Ové, and co-written by him with Samuel Selvon, "Pressure" is a powerful portrait of inter-generational tensions between first- and second-generation West Indian migrants in London's Notting Hill area.
 According to Julia Toppin,