Netflix has launched five new short documentaries from the recipients of their Documentary Talent Fund. They’re available now on Youtube.
If you were wondering how British documentaries are doing, they’re flourishing. Netflix has just announced that five short documentaries, created by the recipients of their Documentary Talent Fund, are available on their Still Watching Youtube channel now.
The subjects of these challenging, ambitious documentaries range from deaf DJs to an Irish mother travelling to the war-torn Ukraine. What connects these five extraordinary documentaries is the theme of ‘connection’.
Here’s the full list of the documentaries and the filmmakers:
Anna Snowball & Abolfazl Talooni – Iranian Yellow Pages, Trying to make his new life in London a success, Reza places an advert in an eccentric newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight.
Anna Rodgers & Zlata Filipovic – Two Mothers, An unusual bond compels an Irish mother to travel...
If you were wondering how British documentaries are doing, they’re flourishing. Netflix has just announced that five short documentaries, created by the recipients of their Documentary Talent Fund, are available on their Still Watching Youtube channel now.
The subjects of these challenging, ambitious documentaries range from deaf DJs to an Irish mother travelling to the war-torn Ukraine. What connects these five extraordinary documentaries is the theme of ‘connection’.
Here’s the full list of the documentaries and the filmmakers:
Anna Snowball & Abolfazl Talooni – Iranian Yellow Pages, Trying to make his new life in London a success, Reza places an advert in an eccentric newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight.
Anna Rodgers & Zlata Filipovic – Two Mothers, An unusual bond compels an Irish mother to travel...
- 2/1/2024
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
From a documentary about a deaf DJ created by a mostly deaf crew and a film exploring the fact that 87 percent of Black people in the U.K. can’t swim to a doc about sperm donors, Netflix has launched five short documentaries created by the recipients of funding and professional support in the second year of its Documentary Talent Fund in the U.K. and Ireland.
The filmmakers received 30,000 pounds ($38,000) to create a short film on the theme of “connection.” Their films were showcased at an event at London’s Ham Yard Hotel on Wednesday night and are now available via Netflix’s YouTube Channel “Still Watching.”
The Netflix Documentary Talent Fund was created in 2020 “to break down barriers of access for emerging filmmakers,” the global streamer highlighted.
“It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with such talented filmmakers and watch each team’s ideas blossom into fully formed documentaries,...
The filmmakers received 30,000 pounds ($38,000) to create a short film on the theme of “connection.” Their films were showcased at an event at London’s Ham Yard Hotel on Wednesday night and are now available via Netflix’s YouTube Channel “Still Watching.”
The Netflix Documentary Talent Fund was created in 2020 “to break down barriers of access for emerging filmmakers,” the global streamer highlighted.
“It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with such talented filmmakers and watch each team’s ideas blossom into fully formed documentaries,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix on Tuesday unveiled five filmmaking teams who will receive funding and professional support to make short documentaries on the theme of “Connection” in the second year of the global streamer’s U.K. Documentary Talent Fund.
The winners were selected from thousands of applications, with a shortlist of 12 teams invited to Netflix’s U.K. headquarters to pitch their projects in front of a panel of industry experts.
The five projects and filmmaking teams selected are:
Anna Snowball & Abolfazl Talooni – Iranian Yellow Pages.
Iranians in London, trapped between two cultures, search for connection by placing weird and wonderful adverts in the Iranian Yellow Pages.
Anna Rodgers & Zlata Filipovic – Two Mothers.
An unusual bond compels an Irish mother of twins to travel to war-torn Ukraine in order to rescue the woman who carried her babies.
Caroline Williamson & Troi Lee – Turn up the Bass.
This is the remarkable story of Troi...
The winners were selected from thousands of applications, with a shortlist of 12 teams invited to Netflix’s U.K. headquarters to pitch their projects in front of a panel of industry experts.
The five projects and filmmaking teams selected are:
Anna Snowball & Abolfazl Talooni – Iranian Yellow Pages.
Iranians in London, trapped between two cultures, search for connection by placing weird and wonderful adverts in the Iranian Yellow Pages.
Anna Rodgers & Zlata Filipovic – Two Mothers.
An unusual bond compels an Irish mother of twins to travel to war-torn Ukraine in order to rescue the woman who carried her babies.
Caroline Williamson & Troi Lee – Turn up the Bass.
This is the remarkable story of Troi...
- 6/13/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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