Sister takes minority stake in Dorothy Street Pictures, forms partnership

Sister, the UK-based studio founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider in 2019, has taken a minority stake in unscripted prodco Dorothy Street Pictures.

Julia Nottingham

Dorothy Street Pictures, which recently announced it will be coproducing a Pamela Anderson documentary for Netflix, will remain fully independent while forming an alignment with Sister.

Independent prodco Dorothy Street was founded in London by Julia Nottingham (Be Water, XY Chelsea, Skate Kitchen, Kingdom of Us) in 2018. Her team of filmmakers, including Becky Read (Twas the Fight Before Christmas, Three Identical Strangers), will continue to develop and produce television and feature non-fiction content.

The company joins Sister’s portfolio of investments which includes podcast producer Campside Media, book publisher Zando, comic book publisher AWA Studios, Olivia Colman and Ed Sinclair’s prodco South of the River Pictures and London music venue Koko.

Nottingham said: “At Dorothy Street Pictures we believe in story first and are overjoyed to be supported by a company quite literally built around storytellers and the desire to empower the independent creative talent we all work with. We’re incredibly excited to collaborate with the teams both in-house at Sister and across the broader group as we seek out enthralling and thought-provoking new stories for those audiences around the world.”

Snider, CEO at Sister, added: “In partnering with Dorothy Street, our goal is to support Julia and her team with a full spectrum of resources and support from Sister. Julia and her collaborators have demonstrated their talent for finding compelling stories that appeal to a broad cross-section of audiences and we are excited to be working with such a remarkable team of producers as they expand their creative vision.”