In some cases, it’s worsening the crisis. It’s far from a portrait of earnest green energy advocates installing solar panels or erecting windmills to wean the world off fossil fuels, says Lessin. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.He adds: “The climate is changing, we’re causing it, and some people are making a killing on it.”Ĭurrently in development, “Sink or $wim” will follow a colorful cast of climate prospectors, profiteers and their ultra-rich clientele, whose interrelated storylines will shed light on how the privileged few will survive and prosper at the expense of those without economic or political power, so long as the free market continues to dictate the world’s response to the global climate crisis. Jessica Chastain’s 10 Best Performances: From ‘The Tree of Life’ to ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’Ģ022 Final Oscars Predictions: The Collective Predictions in All 23 Categoriesįinal Oscars Predictions: Best Original Song - Will We Talk About Lin-Manuel Miranda Becoming an EGOT with 'Encanto's’ ‘Dos Oruguitas’? “An important part of what we do is reaching out into the world of independent, international filmmakers to tell stories and create films within communities that they specifically know and have relevance with.” “Nearly half of our audience comes from the U.S.,” says Poulton. Last year’s Oscar winner Giacchino is one of several American filmmakers including Nancy Schwartzman (“Anonymous Comes to Town”), Zac Manuel (“This Body”), and Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan (“Skip Day”) who have worked with Guardian Documentaries. The unit also received an Oscar nom for Ed Perkins’s 2018 short, “Black Sheep,” about Cornelius Walker, a young English Black man who is unable to escape his racist surroundings and tries to change himself and his physical appearance to fit in. Last year, it won the short documentary film trophy for Anthony Giacchino’s “Colette,” about a member of the French Resistance who, after decades of refusing to step foot in Germany, visits the concentration camp where the Nazis killed her brother. While “The Black Cop” did not qualify for Oscar consideration this year, the Guardian has had success at the Academy Awards. “It feels like a different universe compared to 10 or 15 years ago,” says Charlie Phillips, head of video at Guardian News & Media. The New York Times, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine have also created short docu divisions that compete with the likes of Netflix, HBO, PBS, MTV and A&E. Guardian Documentaries is one of many media platforms that have gotten behind short nonfiction content distribution in the last decade. I felt like I had the chance to just tell a story in a creative way and wouldn’t have the pressure of making it in a specific way for their platform.” Oteka, who is the first openly non-binary person to win a BAFTA, began working with the Guardian during the development phase of “The Black Cop.” The director explains that they wanted to work with the Guardian because the film arm “didn’t follow a creative formula. Poulton says that the unit receives proposals from filmmakers at any phase of production, and at any stage of their career. Since its inception Guardian Documentaries has released approximately 80 nonfiction shorts on Guardian’s website. So, these were all themes that were editorially very relevant to us.” We were reflecting on the Black Lives Matter movement on the push for LGBTQ+ equality we knew there were a lot of important, uncomfortable conversations to be had about policing and abuse of power. “I felt that Cherish’s initial proposal expressed urgent themes in a creative way. “Guardian Documentaries compliment Guardian journalism,” says Lindsay Poulton, head of Guardian Documentaries. 'Fahrenheit 11/9' Producers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin Follow the Money in Climate Profiteering Doc 'Sink or $wim'įinal Oscars Predictions: Best Documentary Feature - 'Summer of Soul' Projected to Make an Oscar Darling Out of Questloveįinal Oscars Predictions: Best Documentary Short - Did Prince Harry's Q&A Give an Edge to 'Three Songs for Benazir'? Commissioned by Guardian Documentaries, the doc received additional funds from the BFI Doc Society Fund. About Gamal “G” Turawa, a Black gay man who joined the London police department to help change its racial make-up, “The Black Cop” explores Turawa’s memories of homophobia, racial profiling, and harassment.
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