The 1970s saw the emergence of independent filmmakers such as Trinidadian-born Horace Ové, the director of "Pressure", among others. London's Talawa Theatre Company was founded in the 1985 by Jamaican-born Yvonne Brewster, their first production being based on C. L. R. James's historical account of the Haitian Revolution, "The Black Jacobins".° New Black theatre companies Migration histories. Retrieved 8 October 2006.</ref> Since the 1980s, the Blue Mountain Theatre's productions have offered a more earthy style of populist comedy, often bringing over Jamaican artists such as Oliver Samuels.