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CEO of Dare Productions Derren Lawford is producing. “Kim is always interested in meaningful stories and issues…and there are so many issues that come out through following his life…. It’s about how he deals with the music industry, homophobia, mental health, his own family trauma,” says Lawford.
The name game With many of the streamers still in their infancy,
looking for break-out films, the demand for known documentary directing talent is still central. The Apple TV+ upcoming Boris Becker documentary is helmed by Alex Gibney and John Battsek; Disney+ new series on Camden music is from Asif Kapadia. While in 2020, one of Netflix biggest hits, An
EMMA HINDLEY, STORYVILLE
Emma Hindley is Lead Commissioning Editor, BBC Storyville “Storyville is the only platform for international feature length documentaries on the BBC and it has a hugely important reputation amongst documentary directors and makers the world over. New voices and unusual stories are vital to Storyville – a large part of my job is to maintain Storyville’s legacy of excellence and eclecticism of storytelling whilst at the same time nurturing and helping newer voices to tell those stories themselves. For too long, feature length docs have largely been the arena of male, white, heterosexual, middle class directors, producers and execs. Thankfully, the world is changing – one of my main ambitions is to ensure that wherever possible, our feature docs are made by a diverse range of folk, from a diverse range of countries, telling their own stories. We have an up-coming film, Bowelbabe In Her Own Words, about the life and death of the
cancer influencer, Deborah James. Director Sara Hardy and editor Gwyn Jones have made an extraordinary film that’s made entirely from archive, stills, insta and tik tok, with Deborah’s voice telling her own story. I’m seeing a number of really interesting docs that have been co-directed – we have a brilliant doc coming up on Storyville, Blue Bag Life, in which artist Lisa Selby looks at the effect that her mother’s addiction had. It was not only co-directed by three people, but it was also shot entirely on mobile phones and it’s already winning prizes. I’m very interested in the hinterland between drama and documentaries – especially in terms of past tense stories – there are an awful lot of films with talking heads, archive and reconstructions around and I’m really keen to see how we can make past tense stories in a different way. So, I’m working in development with a couple of film makers to see what new shapes and approaches they can come up with.”
You put your whole self into the films you make
American Murder Next Door was directed by then relative unknown Jenny Popplewell, James Marsh was producer. “It’s always reassuring to have someone
whose work you know and admire leading on a project and can allow you to take risks on ideas which may have not been as fully developed,” says Dixon at Sky. “We’re working with Nick Green who’s doing his second project for us, (Zuckerberg), Collete Camden, whose work I’ve always admired, who is directing Gone: Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle, or Sam Hobkinson, who I’ve worked with a lot, and always handles stories with a twist deftly and creatively, as showcased in Devil’s Advocate: The Mostly True Story of Giovanni Di Stefano.” On Dare’s slate there’s international co-
production Crypto Queen, a series helmed by Rudolph Herzog. “There’s no doubt the crypto series having Rudolph attached from a very early point in the process and it being an idea he wanted to drive, definitely helped to attract the partners we have,” says Lawford. “Rudolph is quite unique, a European director who also has name
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