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Sunderland creatives land commission for CBBC work

Sunderland-based creative agency MCC Media have been commissioned to work on a children’s docummentary series for CBBC.

‘My Life’ follows the lives of children with incredible stories to tell, and MCC Media’s episode will be broadcase on February 18 at 5.30 pm.

The half-hour film, ‘My Life: The Floating Hospital’, follows a 15-year-old British girl who sails with her family on a hospital ship, and Gracem a Congolese teenager who has suffered by the growth of a tumour on her face.

MCC were helped by Gateshead-based creative development agency Northern Film & Media to create a taster tape for an episode in Tenerife, which won them the commission.

The final film was shot in Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo last September.

Paul McCoy, producer and director, said: “This was a fantastic experience for everyone who worked on the film. It was a great story that just had to be told. None of this would have been possible without the help and hard work from Mercy Ships and the team at MCC Media.”

Kez Margrie, CBBC’s executive producer for the My Life films, said: “This latest series features some truly incredible young people and they all have very different stories to tell.

“At CBBC we try to encourage our viewers to see the world in a new and interesting way and we hope that the extraordinary personal stories told by the children in My Life will inspire them to do just that.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .