EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-nominated producer Maxine Gordon (The Hip Hop Years) and Joseph Bushell have launched an indie with a slate of tasks together with Invisible Entrance: Kherson in regards to the conflict in Ukraine.
Marauder Photos will make docs and narrative options and has introduced in Mark Waugh, former world Chief Content material Officer at Publicis Groupe, to drive innovation within the financing, advertising and distribution sides of manufacturing.
Marauder launches with a slate together with co-produced characteristic documentary Invisible Entrance: Kherson, which supplies a “highly effective perception into the human tales behind the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian metropolis, Kherson, and its subsequent liberation”. Headed by Estonian filmmaker Ilmar Raag, it’s made with DGTL RLGN (Ukraine) and Traumfabrik (Estonia).
The slate additionally consists of two shorts each in manufacturing: Child; now screening at festivals and Dust, which has simply wrapped manufacturing in Odesa, Ukraine.
The workforce can also be making narrative characteristic Eight, a high-concept psychological thriller-fantasy exploring being pregnant psychosis. The challenge might be written by Phoebe Yemi Ara and has already been lengthy listed for the Sundance Function Movie Growth Programme.
Gordon is a BAFTA-Nominated Tv Producer famend for her observational documentaries within the UK and U.S., in addition to compiling a number of music documentary sequence for Channel 4 and the BBC (BAFTA-nommed The Hip Hop Years, Pump Up The Quantity, Story of Jamaican Music). Bushell produced Mickey Angelov’s Directorial Debut characteristic, Dali, for Look Apart Movies, which has garnered 4 nominations on the 2025 Raindance Pageant. He’s presently one of many readily available producers of the quick movie Dust in Ukraine. The pair Bushell and Gordon are the producers behind Simisola Akande’s documentary The Archive: Queer Nigerians made with the BFI Doc Society.
Bushell stated: “After dreaming of working within the movie business from an early age, I’m very proud to be launching Marauder. We wish to discover the distinct voices on this business to inform distinctive tales. The model will characterize high quality, authenticity and originality and empower filmmakers to push the boundaries of storytelling.”
Gordon added: “Coming from an business period when gatekeeping reasonably than nurturing expertise was the norm, it led me into instructing up-and-coming filmmakers. I’m excited to be again now with the launch of Marauder Photos, galvanised by a brand new era of creatives who unapologetically demand to inform various and untold tales.”
