BUFF Studios releases ‘Absolutely Marvellous’ trailer ahead of UK premiere on Saturday 26 November
Launched to co-incide with UK Disability History Month, sports documentary – Absolutely Marvellous marks the directorial debut of Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe MBE, the award-winning founder and former director of the British Urban Film Festival.
Together with raw video captured during her expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro, BUFF Studios’ cameras have spent the last 2 years amassing over 40 hours of footage following Marvel Opara, the blind mother of British heavyweight boxer and Olympic silver medallist Joe ‘The Juggernaut’ Joyce. Members of Joe’s family, including younger brother Torann, feature heavily in what’s been trailed as ‘the undisputed story of Marvel Opara’. BUFF Studios has released an official trailer with brief soundbites from Marvel herself, from Joe Joyce’s promoter Frank Warren and from boxing journalist and broadcaster Gareth A Davies. Actress Judith Jacob serves as narrator. Speaking ahead of the release this Saturday, the film’s director, Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe said: “I’ve watched enough boxing films in my time to know that audiences love these types of stories. What excites me about this one is that you wouldn’t know that Marvel is blind if she didn’t tell you. Her personality and approach to life is something I admire in people who are always up against it in life. It’s taken me the best part of two decades to find a story worth directing and I’m so glad that it’s this one.”
Absolutely Marvellous premieres November 26 at Rich Mix.