Terry's GI Dad - The Feature Documentary needs your help

Terry from Leicester is a veteran Royal Marines commando, a keen gardener and proud Leicester City supporter. For the past three years he has been on the journey of a life time to find his GI Dad and American family.

We’ve been filming all the amazing twists and turns as he finds and meets his American family, and learns about his father’s difficult life in the segregated US military that led to rioting on the streets of British towns like Leicester and Bristol. We also learn what it was like for the Black GIs returning to the Jim Crow South after the War and the plight of the GI children like Terry left behind with their English mothers or growing up in the care system in post war Britain.

Moving Forward

With lots of kind support and great contributors we have managed to get the film fully shot and picture locked.

Everyone has been very pleased with the results so far but unfortunately at this late stage the money has run out and we need to fundraise again to complete the project.

We need to get the film broadcast ready and fund the film festival costs. We need to pay for worldwide use of music and some of the archive and stock footage featured in the film.

Finally we will need funds to launch the film with special Q&A and educational screenings in the UK and US. And all our supporters will be invited to see the results in the cinema on a big screen.

Please donate and share

Your generosity will certainly get up there on screen so please support us so that Terry's GI Dad, The Feature Documentary can be finished and reach the widest possible audience in the UK and abroad. In supporting this film you will also be helping the cause of raising awareness on important US and UK social justice and civil rights history.

The Contributors

Terry - Royal Marines Veteran, Advocate and Charity worker

Jonathan Beamish - Award Winning Producer / Director

Dr Liam McCarthy - Journalist and Honorary Fellow at University of Leicester

Professor Lucy Bland - Professor of social and cultural history at Anglia Ruskin University

Dr Chamion Caballero - Director and co-founder of The Mixed Museum

Sally Vincent - Genealogist at GI Trace

Bryan Greene - Policy Advocate and Journalist

Linda Hervieux - Author and Journalist