Tamsin Ranger

Tamsin Ranger is a producer and Head of Production at Big World Cinema, where she runs the company’s business affairs function – negotiating co-production and distribution agreements, structuring recoupment waterfalls, and managing rights and delivery for a slate distributed in over 20 African countries to partners including Netflix, Al Jazeera, BFI, BBC, Channel 4, and PBS.   She is Co-founder and Programme Director of the African Producers Accelerator (APA), a capacity-building initiative for six mid-career African producers, now in its second year. She co-designs the curriculum and leads producers through co-production structuring, distribution licensing, third-party rights, recoupment models, and finance plans.   As a producer her credits include Netflix-UNESCO’s African Folktales Reimagined (2023), Tug of War (TIFF 2021), Rafiki (Cannes 2018), aKasha (Venice Critics’ Week 2018), High Fantasy (Berlinale 2018), Rollaball (Encounters 2024), The Colonel’s Stray Dogs (Hot Docs 2021), Silas (TIFF, IDFA 2017), and over 100 documentaries for Al Jazeera English.   An alumna of EAVE Producers Workshop (2022), DEENTAL at Cannes (2021), and Berlinale Talents (2019), she has served on juries for the NFVF, the SAFTAs, Durban International Film Festival, Docubox, Red Sea Souk and the Hubert Bals Fund.