Ten years ago at Secret Cinema, our journey to France's Jungle refugee camp felt surprisingly normal, given the brand's then very activist and political stance. 

There, amidst rising tensions and in response to tragic migrant deaths, including the drowning of a Turkish baby who was found washed up on a UK beach, founder Fabien Riggall redirected our efforts into a combination of cultural relief and a protest. This event was an outcry against the treatment of asylum seekers. (Rishi Sunak would have had a fit 9 years later!) Fabien's plan was to establish a cinema network in all the world's most unstable areas of plight and suffering. 

France was the first. So in July 2015, we arrived (amongst another protest) in the town of Calais with a giant inflatable cinema screen, a powerful projector, a temperamental generator, DJ decks, a microphone, two speakers and Bollywood classic 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.'

Alongside us was Afrikan Boy, a multicultural rapper. Together, we staged an impromptu rap concert to shine a light on the plight of refugees before a dusk screening whisked hundreds and hundreds of refugees into the arms of a much needed story ... and some cultural respite.