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The BBC has commissioned Open Water, a new drama adapted from Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel. Mam Tor Productions and B-Side Productions are producing the project. Azumah Nelson will take on the roles of head writer, director, and executive producer for the drama.
Here is a statement from the author himself, Caleb Azumah Nelson, about the project:
“It’s been an absolute joy working alongside Mam Tor, B-Side and the BBC to adapt Open Water for the screen. I can’t wait for viewers not only to meet Marcus and Effie but to step into their world: their private, intimate spaces, their communities, their desires. I’m incredibly grateful to be telling this story at this time.”
Here is a statement from the executive producer of Mam Tor Productions, Tally Garner, about the project:
“The incredible Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water is the most profound and vital love story, and I am overjoyed to be bringing his beautiful and distinctive vision to the screen with Lindsay Salt, Rebecca Ferguson and Danielle Scott-Haughton at the BBC, and Matimba Kabalika at B-Side who are the perfect partners.”
Here is a statement from the executive producer of B-Side Productions, Matimba Kabalika, about the project:
“Open Water is such a beautiful ode to love, youth, and joys big and small, as well as an honest exploration of the journey of finding your way in love and life. I’m thrilled to be working on it with Caleb Azumah Nelson, Tally Garner at Mam Tor and the brilliant team at the BBC. We cannot wait to bring this story to life.”
Here is a statement from the Director of BBC Drama, Lindsay Salt, about the project:
"Open Water is a tender, bold and dazzling story about the dance of early love and being seen for who you really are. The response to Caleb's book was phenomenal, and we feel privileged to be working with him to bring this breathtaking romance to the BBC."
The eight-part series will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
Here is the goodreads synopsis of Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson:
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists -- he a photographer, she a dancer -- trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.
At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.
Source:BBC
Here is a statement from the author himself, Caleb Azumah Nelson, about the project:
“It’s been an absolute joy working alongside Mam Tor, B-Side and the BBC to adapt Open Water for the screen. I can’t wait for viewers not only to meet Marcus and Effie but to step into their world: their private, intimate spaces, their communities, their desires. I’m incredibly grateful to be telling this story at this time.”
Here is a statement from the executive producer of Mam Tor Productions, Tally Garner, about the project:
“The incredible Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water is the most profound and vital love story, and I am overjoyed to be bringing his beautiful and distinctive vision to the screen with Lindsay Salt, Rebecca Ferguson and Danielle Scott-Haughton at the BBC, and Matimba Kabalika at B-Side who are the perfect partners.”
Here is a statement from the executive producer of B-Side Productions, Matimba Kabalika, about the project:
“Open Water is such a beautiful ode to love, youth, and joys big and small, as well as an honest exploration of the journey of finding your way in love and life. I’m thrilled to be working on it with Caleb Azumah Nelson, Tally Garner at Mam Tor and the brilliant team at the BBC. We cannot wait to bring this story to life.”
Here is a statement from the Director of BBC Drama, Lindsay Salt, about the project:
"Open Water is a tender, bold and dazzling story about the dance of early love and being seen for who you really are. The response to Caleb's book was phenomenal, and we feel privileged to be working with him to bring this breathtaking romance to the BBC."
The eight-part series will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
Here is the goodreads synopsis of Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson:
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists -- he a photographer, she a dancer -- trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.
At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.
Source:BBC
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