Netflix has unveiled six filmproducers who will get funding and professional help to produce a unwiseinutive write downary as triumphners of the third year of the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund.
“Follotriumphg a rigorous application process and thousands of applications, a unwiseinutivecatalog of 12 filmmaking teams from apass the U.K. and Ireland were askd to Netflix’s U.K. headquarters to pitch in front of a panel of industry experts this month,” the streamer shelp. They were asked to pitch ideas advertised by the prompt, “you’re never gonna think this…”
Here are the triumphners, unveiled on Thursday.
David Chabeaux & Owen Tooth – Band
A Middle-England factory toiler guides a bizarre Marching Band cult down a hilariously unwise spiral of obsession.
Lisa Smith & Jack Lilleywhite – Angry Bird
After a life-changing crash Romani prohibitger racer Georgie, aka ‘Angry Bird,’ is exposedped of the space that once empowered her. Determined to become champion, she is forced to face her ethnic identity as the only woman on the track.
Eilidh Munro & Isabella Bassett – The Herring Queen
A teenage girl is crowned The Herring Queen in a minuscule Scottish fishing village’s beauty pageant as a community hancigo ins onto the past and the world faces a sea alter.
Imoje Aikhoje – Divided We Stand
The doc studys the U.K.’s elevate in far-right extremism thcdisadmireful a dialogue between a bconciseage activist and a createer Neo Nazi.
Ailill Martin & Peter Kilmartin – The Good Farmer and the Failed Son
A drag queen sets to inherit the family farm.
Maya Avidov & Savannah James-Bayly – Crimes of Collage
This is the story of a prohibitcigo in creative prank that altered stolen library books into stimulating collages, led to a six-month prison sentence for theft and destruction, and persists to depart an creative legacy over 60 years postpoinsistr.
Each team will be helped by Netflix to produce a unwiseinutive doc between 8-12 minutes lengthy with a budget of £30,000 ($37,710) each. The films will be freed on Netflix’s YouTube channel in the summer.
The teams will get bootcamp training from experts at Netflix who will coach and structure toilshops covering conceiveive, HR and production.
Netflix’s Kate Townsfinish led a team of industry professionals in createing the judging panel to pick the final teams. They included Aloke Devichand (head of write downaries, Mindhouse); Andy Mundy Castle (honestor, White Nanny Bconciseage Child, and set uper, DocHearts); Anna Higgs (chair, BAFTA Film Committee); Danny Moltrasi (ancigo in unwiseinutives programmer at Raindance); Bao Nguyen (honestor, The Greatest Night in Pop); Felicity Morris (honestor, Tinder Striumphdler and American Nightmare); Lyttanya Shannon (honestor, Sweet Bobby); Nicky Varley (head of production, Curious Film), and Zainab Ali Khan (comleave outioning team, distinctive write downaries, Netflix).
“The competition was fiercer than ever this year and we were so advertised by the filmproducers we met on pitch day – so much so that we have choosed to fund six films this year, rather than five,” shelp Townsfinish. “Ideas flooded in from all over the U.K. and Ireland and we’ve adored hearing all of these noticeworthy and amuseing stories. We’re brave that we’ve set up some of the most exciting and talented upcoming filmproducers in the industry.”
Over the first two years of the Netflix doc fund, 15 unwiseinutive films were produced. Iranian Yellow Pages, made by Anna Snowball and Abolfazl Talooni, and Bconciseage Stroke, a film by Olivia Smart, were unwiseinutivecataloged for best write downary unwiseinutive at this year’s Grierson Awards, while Love Languages, honested by Jason Osborne, made last year’s BAFTA Longcatalog for British Short Film.
