The critically acclaimed director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Vanity Fair) is on board to direct crime-comedy drama Bengali Detective. The original WorldView-funded documentary by Phil Cox screened at Sundance 2011, where Fox Searchlight acquired the rights to remake the doc into a fully fledged feature. Over the past two years the documentary
The charity dedicated to the safety of freelance newsgatherers has called for journalists, filmmakers and photographers to seriously reconsider going to Syria. The Rory Peck Trust today issued a statement on security in Syria headed by the question: do you really have to go? It is a year to the day that missing freelancer Austin
After a successful Durban FilmMart, we are pleased to announce that we have awarded development grants to two projects as part of the WorldView partnership with FilmMart. Grants of €2,500 each went to Unearthed, directed by Jolynn Minnaar and produced by Dylan Voogt, and Parole Camp, directed by Maanda Ntfandeni. Unearthed (trailer above) explores fracking, the controversial
The shortlist for the prestigious Grierson 2013: British Documentary Awards has been announced, and we are proud that three projects we have supported, No Fire Zone, Why Poverty? and 5 Broken Cameras are in the running for awards. We are particularly proud of No Fire Zone’s nomination for one of this year’s new categories, Best