Idris and Sabrina Elba, Supercollider Team on CBC, BBC Music Industry Injustice Documentary Series (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Zinc Media label Supercollider has partnered with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel on documentary series “Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback” (working title) for public broadcasters CBC and BBC.
The series (3 x 60′), produced in association with Catalyst, examines the exploitation of Black artists by the music industry and explores what it would look like for Black artists to receive reparations.
It documents the extent of the historic injustice suffered by the music industry’s Black artists, including the disparity of profits received by them, despite having created the records that have driven the fabric and culture of popular music.
The series will also look at racial inequality in the music industry both today and in the past. The series features contributions from author and filmmaker MK Asante Jr (“Buck,” “It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop,” “The Black Candle”) and Lawrence Lartey, director of innovation, industry and enterprise at Ravensbourne University London who has worked with President Obama’s foundation on their My Brother’s Keeper initiative.
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