We’re thrilled to congratulate the team behind WHITE NANNY, BLACK CHILD for winning the Representation of Race & Ethnicity Award at the 2024 MIPCOM Cannes Diversify TV Awards!
The MIPCOM Cannes Diversify TV Awards aim to highlight programmes with diverse and inclusive backgrounds, bringing attention to authentic new and established voices. The win follows a BAFTA TV Award, Royal Television Award and acquisition by Netflix earlier this year, with more exciting sales announcements coming soon. Directed by Andy Mundy-Castle, WHITE NANNY, BLACK CHILD offers a personal, moving, and sometimes unsettling meditation on identity, belonging, and the nature of family. Commissioned by Channel 5 (UK) and co-financed by the BFI Doc Society Fund, this powerful film explores the story of over 70,000 West African children who were fostered unofficially by white British families between 1955 and 1995. The documentary follows nine adults as they reflect on their experiences of being fostered, filmed during a therapeutic retreat.
Director Andy Mundy-Castle accepted the award in Cannes, with the judges calling it a “fearless production and a unanimous winner.”
Host of the awards, Femi Oke, who has a personal connection to the story, shared: “This program spoke to me… When I was six weeks old, my Nigerian parents dropped me off with a British white family in Kent, and they were my foster family for seven years. You can imagine my shock, but I met a whole community of people in this documentary who had a similar experience. This story is so close to home.”
WHITE NANNY, BLACK CHILD is a Doc Hearts and TigerLily Productions collaboration and is represented by Together Films for International Rights. If you’re a buyer interested in acquiring the film for your territory please email sales@togetherfilms.org for more information.
