Nadine Marsh-Edwards Explained

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 .^[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

External links

• Nadine Marsh-Edwards at the British Film Institute

Notes and References

1. Book: Satinder. Chohan. Alison Donnell. Alison Donnell. Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&pg=PA268. 2002. Routledge. 978-1-134-70025-7. 268. Marsh-Edwards, Nadine.
2. Web site: Spotlight: Sankofa Film & Video Collective . Invisible Women . 13 January 2021 . 4 February 2022 .
3. Web site: Stewart Clarke . 'Been So Long' Producer Greenacre Films Strikes First-Look TV Deal With Banijay . Variety . 5 March 2019 . 4 February 2022 .
4. Web site: Nana Akua Frimpomaa Amofa . Claudia Jones to be honoured in biopic Claudia . Soca News . 25 February 2021 . 4 February 2022 .
5. Web site: BBC3 orders doc based on Akala's Natives . Televisual . 8 June 2021 . 4 February 2022 .
6. Web site: Jon Creamer . ITV orders Abby Ajayi family drama from Greenacre . Televisual . 15 October 2020 . 4 February 2022 .