Category: UPDATES & NEWS
SAMANTHA SHINES AT THE NATIONAL DIVERSITY AWARDS
Our co-founder and collaborator, Samantha Renke, attended this years National Diversity Awards on Friday 19th September at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. Not because she can be super glamorous with her turnout on the red carpet, but because she is also a patron of this necessary and colourful organization. The National Diversity Awards are a prestigious black tie …
BORN THIS WAY MEDIA ATTENDS FIRST AIMI IN BRIGHTON
The future is now! Born This Way Media had a productive day at the AIMI (Artificial Intelligence Media & Image Conference) in Brighton. Duncan Thomsen and his team dropped our jaws with a peek into what we can do right now, and the possibilities in the very near future using Generative AI to produce amazing, …
SAM´S JOINS THE FRESH-CUTS TEAM FOR UNFILTERED WOMEN.
Samantha´s 3-part ITV, female-led chat show, Unfiltered Women is running on ITV-X. With her co-hosts, Fats Timbo & Jay Howard, they are giving frank – and of course unfiltered views – on dating, life, and the general ups and downs of navigating the world as disabled women. WATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS
EPISODE 1 OF OUR NEW SERIES MAKES DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
Episode one, Titanic, from our co-pro series, Secrets of The Lost Liners, had a double-page spread on 5th May in the Sunday Express. Our ethos of…“finding untold and unique stories that would otherwise have gone unheard”…paid off after journalist, James Rampton, set up an interview with producer/director, Max Barber. The lesser-known but true story of …
BORN THIS WAY MEDIA BAGS SONY PICTURES BURSARY FOR INDILAB.
Samantha & I were delighted that our company, Born This Way Media, was the recipient of a bursary from Sony Pictures Television to partake in the 2024 Indilab TV Growth Accelerator. We were one of 13 TV companies selected to benefit from this supercharged industry scheme. All of us will receive a range of modules …
SECRETS OF THE LOST LINERS (S2) BROADCASTS 29TH APRIL 2024
We finally have our TX dates for series 2 of Secrets of The Lost Liners for Sky History. It´s been a brilliant 3 years making 2 runs, across 12 one-hour episodes, filmed both in the UK & US. This specialist-factual history series charts the epic design, service life and tragic loss of the world’s most …
PADDY´S REGULAR MOVIE REVIEW PROVES HE´S RIPE FOR HIS OWN SERIES
Our associate development producer, Paddy Smyth, had his regular spot on Virgin Media´s The Six O’clock Show this week reviewing all the latest streaming hits we should – or should not – be watching. The film noir remake of The Talented Mr Ripley (Netflix) got the thumbs up from Paddy who unpicked the clear differences …
SAMANTHA’S LATEST SPOT ON SUNDAY MORNING LIVE
Samantha was up at the crack of sparrows this weekend for her most recent spot on Sunday Morning Live. A regular guest on the popular BBC religious & current affairs show, Samantha had lively and informative views on the subject of intrusive surveillance in the workplace & micro aggression. She covers this subject in her …
POST PRODUCTION WRAPS ON LOST LINERS, SERIES 2
We’ve been in post-production for autumn 2023 and right up to winter 2024. Our post house, Directors Cut Films in London, have been facilitating the mammoth task of putting together 6 x 1 hours. On-line, grading, sound design and mixing, voiceover & tech-spec delivery, all is due to complete for Sky-History for a transmission in …