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".

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. 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. 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. 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.
In 2021 ITV and Amazon Prime commissioned Greenacre to produce a six-part drama, Riches, written by Abby Ajayi.
In 2022 Women in Film & Television presented Nadine with The Disney + Contribution to the Medium Award.

Filmography

A Women's Place, 1983.Majdhar, dir. by Ahmed Alauddin Jamal, 1984.Territories, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1986.The Passion of Remembrance, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1986.Perfect Image?, dir. by Maureen Blackwood, 1988Dreaming Rivers, dir by Martina Attille, 1988Looking for Langston, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1989A Nice Arrangement, dir. by Gurinder Chadha, 1991

Public Enemy/Private Friends, dir. by Danny Thompson, 1992Young Soul Rebels, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1992A Family Called Abrew, dir. by Maureen Blackwood, 1992Flight of the Swan, dir. by Ngozi Onwurah, 1992Home away from Home, dir. by Maureen Blackwood, 1993The Posse – Armed and Dangerous, dir. by Liddy Oldroyd, 1993Bhaji on the Beach, dir. by Gurinder Chadha, 1994.Fathers, Sons, and Unholy Ghosts, dir. by Danny Thompson, 1994Jump the Gun, dir. by Les Blair, 1997.Lucky Day, dir. by Brian Tilley, 1999Husk, dir. by Jeremy Handler, 1999Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, dir. by Teboho Mahlatsi, 1999.Hijack Stories, dir. by Oliver Schmitz, 2000Nasty Neighbours, dir. by Debbie Isett, 2001
he Grey Man, dir. by Declan O'Dwyer, 2007An Englishman in New York, dir. by Richard Laxton, 2009Been So Long, dir. by Tinge Krishnan, 2018.
Unsaid Stories, dir. by Koby Adom, Francis Annan, Ethosheia Hylton, Alrick Riley, 2020