Emily Morgan’s company has always had an international focus and she’s now looking to build more bridges with Latin America

Emily Morgan

Source: Christopher Barr

Emily Morgan

Need to know: Although technically launched in 2012, founder Emily Morgan credits 2016 as Quiddity’s true beginning, when her first feature, Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not A Witch, went into production and would later land Morgan a Bafta for outstanding debut.

Since then, Quiddity has averaged one feature a year including Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, Claire Oakley’s Make Up and Felipe Galvez’s Cannes award-winner The Settlers. “If there’s one thing that unites all my projects, it’s an element of displacement for the characters,” says Morgan.

Quiddity received investment from Mexican production service company The Lift in 2023 as well as support from the BBC Small Indie Fund, which helped Morgan expand her team beyond an assistant and a home office. She is now looking to build further bridges with Latin America on projects (Morgan studied Spanish and Portuguese), and hopes to utilise the UK-Brazil co-production treaty that was ratified in 2017.

Key personnel: Emily Morgan, founder; Filiz-­Theres Erel, head of production; Alex Hitch, head of development.

Incoming: The company’s next release is Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s directing debut Dreamers, which premiered at the Berlinale and competed at the BFI London Film Festival. Quiddity is developing several more projects with Gharoro-Akpojotor, including a feature adaptation of Diana Evans’ novel Ordinary People and a TV series.

Reunions with Macqueen and Oakley are also in development – the latter a feature with BBC Film. As for new creators, UK screenwriter Shyam Popat is working on Mexican crime thriller series Animal Spirits.

Morgan is producing Sweden Costa Rica director Nathalie Alvarez Mesen’s first English-­language project The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands in Belfast, which has pre-sold to a notable distributor. There is also Galvez’s next feature Impunity, a crime thriller that will look to shoot in the UK and Chile next year.

Emily Morgan says: “It’s become more of a thing for producers to do international co-­productions, but it’s always been at the heart of my work.”

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