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Netflix names 10 UK Documentary Talent Fund recipients The 10 aspiring filmmaking teams from the United Kingdom who will receive funding through Netflix’s inaugural Documentary Talent Fund have been named by the streaming service.
On Thursday (May 27), Netflix . May 27, 2021
The 10 aspiring filmmaking teams from the United Kingdom who will receive funding through Netflix’s inaugural Documentary Talent Fund have been named by the streaming service.
On Thursday (May 27), Netflix announced the cohort who will each receive up to £40,000 (US$56,757) in financing to create their own documentary short film between eight and 12 minutes long. Each short must, in some way, respond to the prompt “Britain’s not boring and here’s a story.”
Derry filmmakers given £40,000 to make a new documentary for Netflix
Programme will tell the story of a local man s battle to become a rapper
Sean Mullan and Michael Barwise.
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Two Derry filmmakers have been given £40,000 to make a short documentary for Netflix.
Sean Mullan and Michael Barwise are one of ten teams chosen for Netflix s inaugural UK Documentary Talent Fund.
Their documentary short film, HYFIN, will focus on Jordan-Lee Brady-James, aka HYFIN, a young Derry man in-between places, who is told that a Northern Ireland accent cannot rap.
Their documentary description reads: Are you listening to me? If people can’t understand you, should you still speak? Derry-born Jordan-Lee Brady-James had his dualities set out from day one.
Netflix selects UK doc funding winners
Global streamer Netflix has named the 10 aspiring filmmakers from around the UK who have won funding as part of its inaugural Documentary Talent Fund.
Kate Townsend
The creatives will receive up to £40,000 (US$56,000) in financing to create their own documentary short film of between eight and 12 minutes long to the brief Britain’s Not Boring and Here’s a Story.
The winners, who were selected by a judging panel including SB.TV founder Jamal Edwards, director of original documentaries commissioning at Netflix Kate Townsend and Little By Little Films founder Lindsey Dryden.
The winners are: