Note: These projects were completed by Jessica Moran under our previous brand, Film & TV Clearances. We are proud to continue supporting award-winning talent as The Media Rights Collective.
The Media Rights Collective is delighted to congratulate the teams behind four productions we supported, all of which screened at the 70th BFI London Film Festival, which closed on Sunday 18 October.
Leading the way was In The Shadows, which had its world premiere at Vue West End on 9 October. Directed by BAFTA and Emmy-winning Anthony Wonke from Ursula Rani Sarma’s screenplay, it tells the story of boxer Ramla Ali, with BAFTA winner Jasmine Jobson in the title role; The Guardian called it “a film with a real story to tell”. Produced by Lee Magiday (Sleeper Films) and Madeleine Sanderson (Affine Films), it opens in UK cinemas on 30 October.
Olive Nwosu’s Lagos-set debut feature Lady competed in the First Feature Competition for the Sutherland Award. Lady is produced by Alex Polunin for Ossian International, John Giwa-Amu for Good Gate and Stella Nwimo, and co-produced by Lagos-based Emperium Films, with backing from Film4, the BFI and Screen Scotland.
Also from Ossian International, Rhys Marc Jones’s debut thriller Black Church Bay, starring Tom Cullen and Joe Locke, screened in the Thrill strand. It is produced by Alex Polunin for Ossian International and Tristan Goligher for The Bureau, with backing from BBC Film, Ffilm Cymru Wales and Screen Scotland. Completing our line-up, Meatmylk, Lucy Luscombe’s BFI and Film4 Future Takes short, was an Official Selection in the Land of Hope and Gory shorts programme.
FOUR FILMS, FOUR CLEARANCE JOURNEYS
Each production drew on a different part of our service: the Script Clearance Report, Production Clearances and Post Production Compliance Watches on In The Shadows; Post Production Clearances, a Chain of Title Report and Legal Clearance Confirmation on Lady; the Script Clearance Report, Production Clearances and Legal Clearance Confirmation on Black Church Bay; and the Script Clearance Report and Production Clearances on Meatmylk. Different stories, one aim: work that is legally robust without compromising creative ambition, and documentation that satisfies financiers and E&O insurers.
Our warmest congratulations to Anthony Wonke, Ursula Rani Sarma, Lee Magiday, Madeleine Sanderson and the Sleeper Films and Affine Films teams; to Alex Polunin and the Ossian International team, behind both Lady and Black Church Bay; to Olive Nwosu, John Giwa-Amu and Good Gate, Stella Nwimo and Emperium Films; to Rhys Marc Jones, Tristan Goligher and The Bureau; and to Lucy Luscombe and Tora Young at Jam Tomorrow.
