Four Black and Global Majority producers from the UK are participating in the European Film Market’s Equity & Inclusion Pathway as well as the market’s general activities in an initaitive supported by the British Film Insitute (BFI).
Carol Harding, Luke Oliveira-Davies, Lorine Plagnol and Tolu Stedford are all looking for partners for their projects.
Harding is a Bafta TV-nominated producer of Vicarious Productions seeking financing for her second feature project Final Breath which is in advanced development with Gfm Films. She produced her first feature, 2018’s Piotr Szkopiak’s The Last Witness starring Alex Pettyfer, Talulah Riley and Michael Gambon,...
Carol Harding, Luke Oliveira-Davies, Lorine Plagnol and Tolu Stedford are all looking for partners for their projects.
Harding is a Bafta TV-nominated producer of Vicarious Productions seeking financing for her second feature project Final Breath which is in advanced development with Gfm Films. She produced her first feature, 2018’s Piotr Szkopiak’s The Last Witness starring Alex Pettyfer, Talulah Riley and Michael Gambon,...
- 2/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
A trip in the tracks of explorer Ef Knight becomes an unexpectedly poignant portrait of a passionate family in Mikey Corker’s compelling film
Ordinarily you don’t expect emotional depths from a surfing documentary. But I suspect that Savage Waters is not the surfing doc that director Mikey Corker set out to make. The story begins when Matt Knight, a sailor and surfer in his 50s, reads a book written by Victorian adventurer Ef Knight (no relation): an account of an 1890s voyage to find Spanish gold rumoured to buried in the rocks of the Savage Islands, a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic. What catches Knight’s attention is his namesake’s two-page description of the epic waves off the islands – narrated beautifully here by Charles Dance in a voice so deep and rich it could lure you on to the rocks.
So Knight organises an adventure to the islands,...
Ordinarily you don’t expect emotional depths from a surfing documentary. But I suspect that Savage Waters is not the surfing doc that director Mikey Corker set out to make. The story begins when Matt Knight, a sailor and surfer in his 50s, reads a book written by Victorian adventurer Ef Knight (no relation): an account of an 1890s voyage to find Spanish gold rumoured to buried in the rocks of the Savage Islands, a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic. What catches Knight’s attention is his namesake’s two-page description of the epic waves off the islands – narrated beautifully here by Charles Dance in a voice so deep and rich it could lure you on to the rocks.
So Knight organises an adventure to the islands,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Yara Shahidi, the “Black-ish” star who recently starred as Tinker Bell in Disney’s live-action film “Peter Pan & Wendy,” will be honored with the Shining Star award at the 2023 Maui Film Festival.
The festival has revealed its full honoree and film slate for this year’s event, which is set to take place from June 28 to July 2 in Kahului.
Shahidi is known for starring as Zoey in ABC’s beloved “Black-ish” and is now the executive producer of Freeform’s spinoff series, “Grown-ish.” She soon will star in Amazon’s upcoming rom-com “Sitting in Bars With Cake,” for which she will also serve as EP, along with the upcoming action thriller “Ballerina Overdrive.”
Off-screen, Shahidi holds a long list of accomplishments, most recently a B.A. in Social Studies and African American Studies from Harvard University. She continues to work with her foundation, WeVoteNext, which helps amplify the voices...
The festival has revealed its full honoree and film slate for this year’s event, which is set to take place from June 28 to July 2 in Kahului.
Shahidi is known for starring as Zoey in ABC’s beloved “Black-ish” and is now the executive producer of Freeform’s spinoff series, “Grown-ish.” She soon will star in Amazon’s upcoming rom-com “Sitting in Bars With Cake,” for which she will also serve as EP, along with the upcoming action thriller “Ballerina Overdrive.”
Off-screen, Shahidi holds a long list of accomplishments, most recently a B.A. in Social Studies and African American Studies from Harvard University. She continues to work with her foundation, WeVoteNext, which helps amplify the voices...
- 6/22/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
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