Tune in to BBC4 on 15th, 16th and 17th Feb at 2300 for some peace and quiet
Very pleased to have played a part in bringing this fantastic feature documentary about iconic punk singer Poly Styrene to the screen. It will have its World Premier at Glasgow Film Festival and North American Premier at SXSW. Directed by Paul Sng and Celeste Bell, Produced by Rebecca Mark Lawson and Exec Produced by Natasha Dack Ojumu and Nikki Parrott
BBC Arts turns the spotlight on theatre as it continues its Culture in Quarantine initiative – bringing arts and culture into the nation’s homes – by partnering with theatres across the country to produce an unprecedented season of plays for audiences at home, BBC Lights Up.
BBC Lights Up begins in February 2021, following what has been one of the most difficult winters for the performing arts in history. The season will ‘light up’ stages and studios across the UK by supporting hard-hit organisations and artists, and ensuring that audiences at home continue to have the opportunity to enjoy theatre across BBC platforms.
Working with more than 12 theatres and theatrical producers across the UK and running for three weeks the season includes more than 15 newly-recorded plays which will be broadcast across BBC Four, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Each play will be a collaboration between BBC Arts and a theatre or producer and many productions will be recorded on the stages of empty theatres.
Tigerlily is working with Soho Theatre on writer/performer Natasha Marshall’s HALF BREED directed by Miranda Cromwell, and with 20 Stories High in Liverpool on writer/performer Dorcas Seb’s BUTTERCUP directed by Julia Samuels.
Read Vanessa Thorpe’s piece about Bryony and the single mums opera here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/05/bryony-kimmings-my-opera-is-like-grayson-perry-meets-gareth-malone
Watch our feature documentary about Malian photographer Malick Sidibe now on BBC player
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00936cb/storyville-dolce-vita-africana
Described as ‘funny, moving and powerful’ by the Radio Times, our new film OPERA MUMS WITH BRYONY KIMMINGS will be shown on BBC4 on Sept 6th at 10pm, and will then be available to view on BBC iplayer.
Read the Variety and Broadcast articles here:
https://variety.com/2019/film/global/banijay-rights-tigerlily-first-look-deal-1203308951/
https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/indies/banijay-secures-tigerlily-scripted-rights-deal/5142126.article
Watch the documentary on iplayer until 27th August
Watch the short films we made for BBC Ideas on the subject of 'What is freedom?' https://www.bbc.com/ideas/playlists/what-is-freedom
Our 2009 Golden Leopard award winning film, She, A Chinese written and directed by Xiaolu Guo, is showing on 12th May at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of the Not Just Me But You Too:Cinemas of Sisterhood season.
Book tickets here: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/xiaolu-guo-event-horizons/
A DEAL WITH THE UNIVERSE is currently on theatrical release in the UK - check the Facebook page for details of upcoming screenings https://www.facebook.com/ADEALWITHTHEUNIVERSE/
“Touching, compelling love story” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Observer: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/14/a-deal-with-the-universe-review-transgender-pregnancy-documentary
“Winningly candid, refreshing and moving” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-deal-with-the-universe-review-09qfwpmwt
“Epically Joyful” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/2f65cc08-5b8c-11e9-939a-341f5ada9d40
Last night Tigerlily productions won two awards at the RTS CRAFT AWARDS
Photography - Documentary/Factual & Non Drama: Andrew Muggleton
TITLE: Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Tigerlily Productions
BROADCASTER: BBC Four
NOMINEES:Camera Team - Blue Planet II Glen Milner - Handmade in Hull
‘Here the jury were faced with the impossible task of comparing exquisite and unparalleled efforts to showcase nature, with impossibly charming and characterful human connection, with a series which seemed to transcend the form as it created a uniquely experiential narrative - one to which its sensitive and evocative photography was both formative and indispensable.’
Sound - Entertainment & Non Drama: Doug Dreger, Greg Gettens & Kim Tae Hak
TITLE: Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Tigerlily Productions
BROADCASTER: BBC Four
NOMINEES:Andy Hodges, Sam Staples & Renato Ferrari - Top Gear (Series 25) The Sound Alliance - BBC Proms 2018
‘This programme, so simple in concept, keeps our attention in large part because of the fantastic sound, so comprehensively captured and creatively mixed.’
Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie name checks our documentary Black Power Salute as a cultural highlight for him in the Observer newspaper https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/04/bobby-gillespie-on-my-radar-primal-scream
Our BBC4 3 part series Meditations from a Monastery has been nominated for two Royal Television Society Craft and Design Awards 2018: Photography - Documentary/Factual & Non Drama (Andrew Muggleton) and Sound - Entertainment & Non Drama (Doug Dreger and Greg Gettens)
Read about our latest Dispatches featuring ex Met Police Chief Bernard Hogan-Howe’s journey to find out more about legalisation in the USA here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6298989/Is-time-legalise-cannabis-asks-ex-Met-Police-chief-Bernard-Hogan-Howe.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6298989/Is-time-legalise-cannabis-asks-ex-Met-Police-chief-Bernard-Hogan-Howe.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/22/ex-met-police-chief-bernard-hogan-howe-calls-urgent-review-cannabis/
Our documentary for CBBC about children with parents in prison has been nominated for a Children’s BAFTA 2018.
Take a look at our crowdfunding campaign which includes some brilliant perks and please share the link
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zandra-with-a-zee-zandra-rhodes-documentary#/
Grateful, proud and honoured is how we are feeling today with the news that Natasha and Nikki have been invited to become members of the Documentary chapter of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
We're pleased to announce that Jason Barker's debut feature doc A DEAL WITH THE UNIVERSE will premier at the BFI FLARE Film Festival as the Centrepiece screening in London on 26th March. Autobiographical and made entirely from personal archive and home video diaries, the film follows Jason’s incredible story of how he came to give birth to his child, charting over 15 years of his and his partner’s life. The documentary offers a new perspective on the Trans stories we may have heard before, focusing on life after transition. Empowering and heartwarming this is a feel good film that is guaranteed to leave an impact. Book tickets here:
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=dealwiththeuniverse&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
Produced by Loran Dunn of Delaval Films in association with Tigerlily Productions
The British film industry was central to Harvey Weinstein’s success, making him one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. While A-list actresses have made allegations of harassment, sexual abuse and rape by the renowned producer, this one hour film hears allegations of how he used his power and position to abuse his colleagues and workers in the British Isles, and keep them silent for 30 years.
A spokesperson for Harvey Weinstein has previously said that any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied.
Featuring in-depth interviews with former assistants and others who worked closely with Weinstein in the UK, the programme hears employees’ experiences of behaviour they describe as a misuse of power to dominate, control and humiliate.
Premiers on Channel 4 10pm 20th February