Nadine Marsh-Edwards
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Nadine Marsh-Edwards | |
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| Born | United Kingdom |
| Education | Goldsmiths College |
| Occupation | Film producer |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Known for | Cofounder of Sankofa Collective; producer of Bhaji on the Beach, Been So Long, Riches |
| Awards | Disney+ Contribution to the Medium Award (2022) |
Nadine Marsh-Edwards is a British film producer. She has been described as "a pivotal force in developing a black British cinema".[1]
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.
