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Project Title: The Other Side of Town
Format: TV Drama Series (6 x 50)
Project Snapshot
When Aaliyah, a Black Caribbean woman, relocates to the gentrified coastal town of Whitstable in search of reinvention for herself and her family, she’s embraced by Jessica a magnetic but controlling figure at the heart of a seemingly tight-knit group of women. But as cracks begin to show and Jessica’s husband mysteriously vanishes, Aaliyah is pulled into a world of hidden secrets and carefully curated facades. As the town turns inward, long-buried tensions around race, class, and belonging rise to the surface threatening to destroy the very life Aaliyah is trying to build.
Status: In Development
Written by: Makalla McPherson & Paula B. Stanic
“She said he vanished. But the truth is, we were all disappearing long before he did.”
Featured Projects
Project Title: Trust
Format: TV Drama Series (4 x 50)
Project Snapshot
When two young girls go missing on a 1980s South London estate, the fragile bonds of a tight-knit community begin to unravel revealing the silences people keep to survive. Rema, a Jamaican-born mother, finds herself at the centre of it all, forced to confront the limits of loyalty, the weight of unspoken trauma, and the truth about who she’s become. As pressure builds, she returns to Jamaica in search of clarity but what she finds is a reckoning with the past, and the hidden cost of protecting your children in a world shaped by race, class, and denial.
Status: In Development
Written by: Makalla McPherson & Paula B. Stanic
“Mi nah want it and Mi nah want you.”
Project Title: Buried Truth
Format: Feature Film
Project Snapshot
Set in Cardiff in the aftermath of COVID-19, when isolation bubbles still linger and tensions simmer beneath the surface, this psychological drama follows Maya, a sharp, unapologetic Black lecturer who assigns her students to research historical miscarriages of justice. But when one case hits disturbingly close to home implicating her white fiancé’s family Maya is thrust into a moral and emotional crisis. As the walls close in and loyalties fracture, she must decide whether to protect the life she’s building or expose a buried truth that could destroy it all.
Status: In Development
Written by: Makalla McPherson & Paula B. Stanic
“Some things don’t stay buried not guilt, not memory, and definitely not the truth.”