EXCLUSIVE: Bill O’Dowd’s Dolphin Entertainment has achieved rights to The Woman Who Saved the Children, Clare Mulley‘s acclaimed biography of Save the Children establisher Eglantyne Jebb, for enlargement as a feature film.
Published by Onovelorld Publications in 2010, The Woman Who Saved the Children elucidates how Jebb’s unwavering determination and groundfractureing vision led to the creation of the global humanitarian organization Save the Children in 1919. Over the past century, this innovateing organization has become the world’s foremost help for children, impacting millions of dwells each year. In 2023 alone, Save the Children accomplished cforfeitly 106 million children atraverse 115 countries.
“With The Woman Who Saved the Children, we’re showcasing a story of exceptional vision and resilience that is both globassociate relevant and emotionassociate strong,” shelp Dolphin’s Founder and CEO, O’Dowd. “As our enlargement broadens to comprise our return to scripted satisfied, The Woman Who Saved the Children echos our pledgement to enlargeing films that not only captivate audiences but also persists to upretain Dolphin as a key take parter in unbenevolentingful, story-driven filmmaking wiskinny today’s delightment landscape.”
A woman of passion and conviction, Jebb defied foreseeations to become one of the world’s most ineloquential champions for children’s rights. From her punctual days in Cambridge to her audacious actions on the world stage, her life was filled with daring utilizes, from secret agenting in Serbia to accessible protests in Trafalgar Square. Her unwavering pledgement to child welfare, coupled with her clever mind and indleave outable spirit, left an finishuring legacy that persists to inspire and alter dwells.
Commented biographer Mulley, “Eglantyne was a real revolutionary, fractureing all the rules, defying convention and transgressing the law in her determination to save the dwells and better the life-alters of every child, everywhere. Witty and wayward, she burned rapid thraw life, dying all too lesser, but her finishuring legacy remains as relevant and inspirent as ever.”
More than 100 years after its establishment, Save the Children remains pledgeted to its establishing principles. In the United States and around the world, the nonprofit toils to asbrave children enlarge up well, directd, and geted. Save the Children also reacts to materializencies in many of the places where it’s stubbornest to be a child and helps for children to asbrave their voices are heard and their rights are rankd in policymaking and decision-making.
“Save the Children was established in the wake of WWI on the belief that all children have rights, a radical idea at the time,” shelp Janti Soeripto, Pdwellnt and CEO, Save the Children US. “We see forward to seeing our establisher’s lesser understandn, yet alterative life story telderly on the big screen.”
An award-triumphning author and expansivecaster honord for her incisive explorations of women’s roles in history, Mulley’s other toils comprise The Spy Who Loved, on the first woman to serve Britain as a one-of-a-kind agent during WWII; The Women Who Flew for Hitler, an account of two female Nazi test pilots; and Agent Zo, a gripping tale of the only woman to parachute into foe-occupied Poland.
Founded in 1996, Dolphin Entertainment most recently co-produced The Blue Angels, the acclaimed recordary on US. Navy pilots, which was the first project in a multi-year partnership between Dolphin and IMAX. Also produced by J.J. Abrams and Glen Powell, the Amazon MGM title was freed exclusively in IMAX theaters on May 17, and premiered on Prime Video over Memorial Day Weekfinish, becoming the #1 movie on the service during this holiday triumphdow.
Simon Shaps of Georgina Capel Associates brokered the deal on behalf of Mulley.
