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Netflix Announces Winners of the Documentary Talent Fund
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19 December 2024
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Today, Netflix announced the six filmmaking teams who will receive funding and professional support to make a short documentary as part of the third year of the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund. Following a rigorous application process and thousands of applications, a shortlist of 12 filmmaking teams from across the UK and Ireland were invited to Netflix's UK HQ to pitch in front of a panel of industry experts this month. They were asked to pitch one idea each inspired by the prompt, You're never gonna believe this
The successful recipients and their projects are:
Maya Avidov & Savannah James-Bayly - CRIMES OF COLLAGE' is the story of a bold artistic prank that transformed stolen library books into provocative collages, led to a six-month prison sentence for theft and vandalism, and continues to leave an artistic legacy over 60 years later
Imoje Aikhoje - DIVIDED WE STAND' - explores the UKs rise in far right extremism through a dialogue between a black activist and former Neo Nazi
David Chabeaux & Owen Tooth - BAND - a Middle-England factory worker leads a bizarre Marching Band cult down a hilariously dark spiral of obsession
Lisa Smith & Jack Lilleywhite - ANGRY BIRD' - After a life changing crash Romani racer Georgie, aka Angry Bird, is stripped of the space that once empowered her. Determined to become champion, she is forced to confront 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 tiny Scottish fishing villages beauty pageant as a community holds onto the past and the world faces a sea change
Ailill Martin & Peter Kilmartin - THE GOOD FARMER AND THE FAILED SON' - A drag queen prepares to inherit the family farm
Each team will now be supported by Netflix to produce a short documentary between 8-12 minutes long with a budget of £30,000 each. The films will be released on Netflix's YouTube channel in the Summer. As part of the process they will now undergo boot camp training from experts at Netflix who will coach and host workshops covering Creative, HR and Production. The initiative will provide filmmakers with a personalised experience to best suit their levels of expertise and help them further their careers.
In the first two years of the fund, 15 short films have been produced with over 60 festival screenings. Last year, Iranian Yellow Pages, made by Anna Snowball & Abolfazl Talooni, was nominated for the Best Documentary Short at this year's Grierson Awards and was screened at festivals including BFI London Film Festival and AFI Fest.
Black Stroke, a film by Olivia Smart, was also shortlisted for Best Documentary Short at this year's Grierson Awards as well as being nominated for the Broadcast Digital Award for Best Short Form Documentary 2024. It won Best Documentary at the Wimbledon International Short Film Festival.
Love Languages, directed by Jason Osbourne during the first year of the fund, made last year's BAFTA Longlist for British Short Film. Other filmmakers who have been supported by the fund have gone on to make their first features, been nominated for numerous other awards and become BAFTA Connect members: Year 1 recipient Tobi Kyeremateng, who made her directorial debut with her film W MB , went on to win the 2023 BAFTA TV Award for Short Form Programme for her next project How To Be A Person. Fellow fund alumni Beya Kabelu and Shiva Raichandani were also nominated in the same category, for their follow up work.
This year, Kate Townsend led a team of industry professionals to form the judging panel to select the final teams. These included Aloke Devichand (Head of Documentaries, Mindhouse, Executive Producer The Final: Attack on Wembley); Andy Mundy Castle (Director, White Nanny Black Child, Founder DocHearts); Anna Higgs (Chair, BAFTA Film Committee); Danny Moltrasi (Senior Shorts Programmer at Raindance); Bao Nguyen (Director, The Greatest Night In Pop); Felicity Morris (Director, Tinder Swindler, Don't F**k With Cats and American Nightmare), Lyttanya Shannon (Director, Sweet Bobby); Nicky Varley (Head of Production, Curious Film), as well as Zainab Ali Khan, Original Documentaries at Netflix UK.
Townsend said, The competition was fiercer than ever this year and we were so inspired by the filmmakers and the originality demonstrated across the board. I want to extend our congratulations to this year's deserved winning teams, they are such an exciting glimpse into the future talent of UK documentarians.
Molinare will be supporting teams by providing their world-class post-production services at a reduced cost, plus access to their online post-facilities.
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