Channel 4 is to offer five ethnically diverse-led scripted indies up to £30,000 each to secure the right to books, plays and web series that can be developed into TV drama.
Greenacre Films, Bristol-based Blak Wave, Turnover Films, Lunar Pictures and Dark Pictures are the initial recipients of the broadcaster’s Creative Equity Drama IP Fund.
The fund aims to offer pathways to on- and off-screen talent from ethnically diverse backgrounds and help companies strengthen their development slate by gaining access to IP that would otherwise would have been out their reach.
Greenacre’s credits include ITV1's drama Riches and short films series Unsaid Stories, while Blak Wave made women’s rugby doc No Rucks Given! with Warner Bros. Discovery Access and TNT Sports.
Turnover Films is run by Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, who previously produced C4/Netflix series Top Boy, C4 crime drama Get Millie Black [main picture] and Film4 movie Rye Lane.
Lunar Pictures, meanwhile, was founded by Danielle Goff, who was Bafta-nominated for animated short film Night of the Living Dread.
Finally, Dark Pictures’ credits include DAZN football doc Green Lions and C4 short sci-fi series Beth.
The successful candidates were first revealed by Broadcast.
