Exclusive: Netflix UK & Ireland has acquired Channel 5’s BAFTA TV-winning documentary White Nanny, Black Child.
Originally for Paramount Global’s UK network Channel 5 and co-financed by the BFI Doc Society fund, the doc explores the story of how over 70,000 West African children were unofficially fostered by white British families between 1955 and 1995. Jess Reilly, Sales & Acquisitions Manager at distributor Together Films, brokered the deal with Netflix.
The film follows a group of nine adults who meet at a therapeutic retreat to share their experiences of being fostered. The result is billed as a “personal, moving and sometimes unsettling meditation on identity, belonging and the nature of family.”
Andy Mundy-Castle is the director, with his Doc Hearts company producing alongside TigerLily Productions. Natasha Dack Ojumu (Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters) is the producer.
White Nanny, Black Child was...
Originally for Paramount Global’s UK network Channel 5 and co-financed by the BFI Doc Society fund, the doc explores the story of how over 70,000 West African children were unofficially fostered by white British families between 1955 and 1995. Jess Reilly, Sales & Acquisitions Manager at distributor Together Films, brokered the deal with Netflix.
The film follows a group of nine adults who meet at a therapeutic retreat to share their experiences of being fostered. The result is billed as a “personal, moving and sometimes unsettling meditation on identity, belonging and the nature of family.”
Andy Mundy-Castle is the director, with his Doc Hearts company producing alongside TigerLily Productions. Natasha Dack Ojumu (Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters) is the producer.
White Nanny, Black Child was...
- 6/11/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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The BBC has commissioned feature documentary “Abba: Against The Odds” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the iconic Swedish group winning the Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place this year in Sweden. The documentary will be produced by multi-award winning documentary makers Rogan Productions (“Freddie Mercury: The Final Act”) and directed by James Rogan. It will tell the story of Abba’s greatest period of musical achievement framed between the albums “Arrival” (1976) and “Super Trooper” (1980).
The film is funded by several European broadcasters including BBC, Ard/Wdr, France Télévisions, Svt and Dr. It will feature access to Svt (Swedish public television) archives including rare footage that captures the band’s rise to fame and the negativity they faced at home.
In the U.K. the film will be shown on BBC One and iPlayer in May. BBC Studios will distribute the film internationally and will present it to buyers at BBC Studios Showcase,...
The BBC has commissioned feature documentary “Abba: Against The Odds” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the iconic Swedish group winning the Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place this year in Sweden. The documentary will be produced by multi-award winning documentary makers Rogan Productions (“Freddie Mercury: The Final Act”) and directed by James Rogan. It will tell the story of Abba’s greatest period of musical achievement framed between the albums “Arrival” (1976) and “Super Trooper” (1980).
The film is funded by several European broadcasters including BBC, Ard/Wdr, France Télévisions, Svt and Dr. It will feature access to Svt (Swedish public television) archives including rare footage that captures the band’s rise to fame and the negativity they faced at home.
In the U.K. the film will be shown on BBC One and iPlayer in May. BBC Studios will distribute the film internationally and will present it to buyers at BBC Studios Showcase,...
- 2/14/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: It’s a big week for husband-and-wife production duo Luke Hyams and Sunita Mirchandani Hyams.
Not only does their debut documentary, The Sidemen Story, launch tomorrow (February 14) on Netflix in the UK, but this interview with Deadline is the first they’ve given since the launch of their indie cross-cultural producer Pangaea.
In a wide-ranging chat that interrupts a break in Jamaica — what they call their “first holiday in quite a few years” — they talk about the gruelling hours of work that went into shooting and producing a doc on British YouTube stars The Sidemen, the state of the UK production sector and a slate that includes Work in Progress, a talk show in which UK TV host, broadcaster and creative Julie Adenuga quizzes major public figures.
Hyams is the former Head of Originals for YouTube Emea, Director of Global Content for The Walt Disney Company and the creator...
Not only does their debut documentary, The Sidemen Story, launch tomorrow (February 14) on Netflix in the UK, but this interview with Deadline is the first they’ve given since the launch of their indie cross-cultural producer Pangaea.
In a wide-ranging chat that interrupts a break in Jamaica — what they call their “first holiday in quite a few years” — they talk about the gruelling hours of work that went into shooting and producing a doc on British YouTube stars The Sidemen, the state of the UK production sector and a slate that includes Work in Progress, a talk show in which UK TV host, broadcaster and creative Julie Adenuga quizzes major public figures.
Hyams is the former Head of Originals for YouTube Emea, Director of Global Content for The Walt Disney Company and the creator...
- 2/13/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has acquired a doc about British YouTubers The Sidemen — the debut project from former YouTube Emea content chief Luke Hyams’ production company.
A teaser posted yesterday on social media for uber-popular group confirmed the Netflix deal for The Sidemen Story, with a launch date of February 14 set.
Hyams is directing, with Pangaea co-founder Sunita Mirchandani Hyams producing. Arcade Media is also attached. Luke Hyams said the doc would follow “an inspirational decade plus [a] story of friendship, ambition, perseverance and seven grown men who still love to play Hide N Seek.” It includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, including contributions from the group, commentators and industry sources.
The doc has quietly been in the works since 2022.
The Sidemen — a group comprising web personalities Olajide ‘JJ’ Olatunji (Ksi), Simon Minter (Miniminter), Joshua Bradley (Zerkaa), Tobit ‘Tobi’ Brown (Tbjzl), Ethan Payne (Behzinga), Vikkstar123, and Harry Lewis (W2S) — have amassed well over 100 million subscribers across platforms,...
A teaser posted yesterday on social media for uber-popular group confirmed the Netflix deal for The Sidemen Story, with a launch date of February 14 set.
Hyams is directing, with Pangaea co-founder Sunita Mirchandani Hyams producing. Arcade Media is also attached. Luke Hyams said the doc would follow “an inspirational decade plus [a] story of friendship, ambition, perseverance and seven grown men who still love to play Hide N Seek.” It includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, including contributions from the group, commentators and industry sources.
The doc has quietly been in the works since 2022.
The Sidemen — a group comprising web personalities Olajide ‘JJ’ Olatunji (Ksi), Simon Minter (Miniminter), Joshua Bradley (Zerkaa), Tobit ‘Tobi’ Brown (Tbjzl), Ethan Payne (Behzinga), Vikkstar123, and Harry Lewis (W2S) — have amassed well over 100 million subscribers across platforms,...
- 1/31/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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