# Zinc Media Group to partner with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/zinc-media-group-to-partner-with-idris-elbas-green-door-pictures/4121119697
- Published: 2023-05-22T07:09:45+01:00
- Author: Jacob Brown

**Zinc Media Group plc** (LON:ZIN), the award-winning television, brand and audio
production group, has announced that it is partnering with Idris Elba’s Green Door
Pictures and Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel to make _PAID IN FULL: The Battle for Payback__(
working title)_ for public broadcasters CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) 
and the BBC.

This multi-million-pound international co-production series is commissioned by CBC
and the BBC, and funded and co-produced by a partnership between Abacus Media Rights(
AMR) and Media Musketeers Studios, with AMR distributing internationally. The new
series, produced in association with Catalyst, examines the systematic exploitation
of black artists by the music industry and explores what it would look like for 
black artists to receive sonic reparations. It documents the extent of the historic
injustice suffered by the music industry’s black artists, including the disparity
of profits received by them, despite having created the records that have driven
the fabric and culture of popular music.

> **Mark Browning****,** **Chief Executive Officer****, Zinc** **Media Group**, 
> says:
> “We are extremely proud of our team’s hard work and dedication in securing this
> significant contract win, and that Idris and Sabrina are Executive Producers. 
> It underlines Zinc’s global reputation for premium feature documentaries and our
> commitment to highlighting real-world issues, including those faced by black artists
> in the music industry today. We believe that our programmes such as this make 
> a positive impact on society. It is another material contract that helps underpin
> our full year revenue projections.”

> **Idris  Elba, CEO, Green Door** adds: “This is a story that touches all of us.
> It’s about the people who created the soundtracks of our lives in popular music
> and the pain of their exploitation. It’s also about bringing the music industry
> to account for the injustice inflicted on generations of musical talents who have
> been deprived of their rightful rewards both financially and in terms of status
> and respect. At the heart of it is the need to make amends – granting acknowledgement
> and paying back what is due.”

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