{"id":919623,"date":"2026-10-07T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919623\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:08:10","slug":"in-the-shadows-producers-to-self-release-british-boxing-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919623\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Shadows Producers to Self-Release British Boxing Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe producers of upcoming British boxing biopic \u201cIn the Shadows\u201d<\/a> have successfully staged a last-minute rescue mission to save their film after its U.K. distributor True Brit Entertainment<\/a> filed for administration in late September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe feature \u2014\u00a0based on the true story of trailblazing British-Somali boxer, model and UNICEF Ambassador Ramla Ali and due to have its world premiere at the London Film Festival<\/a> on Oct. 9 \u2014 will now be self-released theatrically in the U.K. thanks to additional support from its financiers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe had to mobilize very quickly \u2014 it really was the 11th hour,\u201d said Lee Magiday<\/a> (a BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee for \u201cThe Favourite\u201d), who produces alongside Madeleine Sanderson (\u201cBeing AP,\u201d \u201cFighting for a City\u201d). Magiday said they only found out in mid-September that there would be no money for the P&A spend. \u201cSo we had to ask our backers \u2014 our exec producers \u2014\u00a0whether they could put even more money into the film, which, thank God, they did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing it\u2019s London Film Festival premiere, \u201cIn the Shadows\u201d will now screen across the U.K. in more than 30 screens starting with a special screening and Q&A on Oct. 30 with the cast and creatives at London\u2019s Genesis Cinema, close to where the film was shot. With near perfect timing, Ali then has a world title fight on Nov. 8 in the U.S. and will return to the U.K. to help support the film with further special event screenings and Q&As.<\/p>\n

\n\tMagiday and Sanderson praised their exec producers Richard Fearn, Anushka Shah and Natasha Mudhar for their additional financial support to enable the release, but also say they\u2019re deeply thankful for the assistance of Will Clarke at Altitude Films, which is selling the \u201cIn the Shadows\u201d globally. Clarke would introduce the producers to Ben Metcalf at Metis Films, which is now physically handling the distribution, with former True Brit exec Kate Neville-Towle overseeing marketing.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really nice because a lot of people really love the film, love Ramla and love what we\u2019re doing \u2014\u00a0so it\u2019s a bit like a community,\u201d said Sanderson. \u201cWe\u2019ve got our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tLed by \u201cTop Boy\u201d star Jasmine Jobson and directed by Anthony Wonke, \u201cIn the Shadow,\u201d tells the story of refugee Ali, who, without the knowledge of her strictly Muslim parents in London, secretly pursued boxing to become the first Somali-British professional boxing champion. It was at the boxing club where she trained that she met her future husband, Richard Moore, who converted to Islam. The film explores both Ali\u2019s drive to succeed despite the numerous obstacles in and out of the ring \u2014 a drive that helped her become the first boxer ever to represent Somalia at the the 2020 Olympic Games and the first-ever professional female boxing match in Saudi Arabia \u2014 and the love story between her and Moore as they navigate racial and cultural barriers.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Magiday, there are parallels between the story behind \u201cIn the Shadows\u201d and the making of it, culminating in the last-minute rescue. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis film has been a battle from day one and and Ramla\u2019s story has been a battle from day one, so it\u2019s kind of in keeping,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had to kind of fight the odds the whole time because we didn\u2019t get industry support for production. This was made by sheer will and determination, and some amazing backers who believed in the story. For us, it\u2019s such an important film because it is about hope. It\u2019s not just the normal boxing story \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s about being accepted by your your culture, by your family, by your community, and also finding love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee the \u201cIn the Shadows\u201d trailer below<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The producers of upcoming British boxing biopic \u201cIn the Shadows\u201d have successfully staged a last-minute rescue mission to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,487675,52544,85,487676],"class_list":["post-919623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-lee-magiday","tag-london-film-festival","tag-sports","tag-true-brit-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}