Nadine Marsh-Edwards

Nadine Marsh-Edwards is a British film producer. She has been described as "a pivotal force in developing a black British cinema". ^[1]

Life

Marsh-Edwards graduated from Goldsmiths College before cofounding the Sankofa Film and Video Collective with Isaac Julien, Maureen Blackwood, Martina Attille, and Robert Crusz in 1983. ^[2] She produced films made by several others in the collective before moving to a more commercial success with Gurinder Chadha's 1994 film Bhaji on the Beach .

In 2010, Marsh-Edwards founded the production company Greenacre Films with Amanda Jenks. It became a division of Wall to Wall Media in 2012. The company produced the 2018 Netflix original film Been So Long . In 2019 they announced a first-look TV deal with Banijay. ^[3] In 2020, they were announced as producers of Unsaid Stories, a four-part series of short dramas examining racial inequality for ITV. In 2021, Greenacre entered into a partnership to help produce a biopic by Frances-Anne Solomon about the life of Claudia Jones. ^[4] In 2021, a collaboration was announced between Greenacre Films and Akala, for a BBC3 documentary based on Akala's book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire . ^[5]

In 2021 ITV and Amazon Prime commissioned Greenacre to produce a six-part drama, Riches, written by Abby Ajayi. ^[6]

In 2022 Women in Film & Television presented Nadine with The Disney + Contribution to the Medium Award.

Filmography

• (as director) A Women's Place, 1983.
• (as assistant editor) Majdhar, dir. by Ahmed Alauddin Jamal, 1984.
• (as editor) Territories, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1986.
• (as production manager and editor)The Passion of Remembrance, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1986.
• (as producer) Perfect Image?, dir. by Maureen Blackwood, 1988
• (as production manager) Dreaming Rivers, dir by Martina Attille, 1988
• (as producer and casting) Looking for Langston , dir. by Isaac Julien, 1989
• (as producer) A Nice Arrangement, dir. by Gurinder Chadha, 1991
• (as producer) Public Enemy/Private Friends, dir. by Danny Thompson, 1992
• (as producer) Young Soul Rebels , dir. by Isaac Julien, 1992
• (as producer) A Family Called Abrew, dir. by Maureen Blackwood, 1992
• (as executive producer) Flight of the Swan, dir. by Ngozi Onwurah, 1992
• (as executive producer) Home away from Home, dir. by Maureen Blackwood, 1993
• (as producer) The Posse – Armed and Dangerous, dir. by Liddy Oldroyd, 1993
• (as producer) Bhaji on the Beach , dir. by Gurinder Chadha, 1994.
• (as executive producer) Fathers, Sons, and Unholy Ghosts, dir. by Danny Thompson, 1994
• (as a partner in Xencat Productions) Jump the Gun , dir. by Les Blair, 1997.
• (as executive producer) Lucky Day, dir. by Brian Tilley, 1999
• (As executive producer) Husk, dir. by Jeremy Handler, 1999
• (as executive producer) Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, dir. by Teboho Mahlatsi, 1999.
• (as co-producer) Hijack Stories , dir. by Oliver Schmitz, 2000
• (as executive producer) Nasty Neighbours, dir. by Debbie Isett, 2001
• (as executive producer) he Grey Man, dir. by Declan O'Dwyer, 2007
• (as development executive) An Englishman in New York , dir. by Richard Laxton, 2009
• (as producer) Been So Long , dir. by Tinge Krishnan, 2018.
• (as executive producer) Unsaid Stories, dir. by Koby Adom, Francis Annan, Ethosheia Hylton, Alrick Riley, 2020

References

1. Chohan, Satinder (2002). "Marsh-Edwards, Nadine". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 268. ISBN   978-1-134-70025-7.
2. "Spotlight: Sankofa Film & Video Collective". Invisible Women. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
3. Stewart Clarke (5 March 2019). "'Been So Long' Producer Greenacre Films Strikes First-Look TV Deal With Banijay". Variety. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
4. Nana Akua Frimpomaa Amofa (25 February 2021). "Claudia Jones to be honoured in biopic Claudia". Soca News. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
5. "BBC3 orders doc based on Akala's Natives". Televisual. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
6. Jon Creamer (15 October 2020). "ITV orders Abby Ajayi family drama from Greenacre". Televisual. Retrieved 4 February 2022.

External links

• Nadine Marsh-Edwards at the British Film Institute ^{[ better source needed ]}
• Nadine Marsh-Edwards at IMDb