Comcast-owned European mediaco Sky has boarded filmmaker Alba Sotorra Clua’s feature documentary
The Return: Life After ISIS ahead of its premiere in competition at the upcoming SXSW Film Festival.
The film was commissioned for Sky Documentaries by Zai Bennett, MD of content, and Poppy Dixon, director of documentaries and factual, and Jack Oliver, head of co-productions. MetFilm Sales in handling worldwide distribution.
The Return: Life After ISIS offers access to a group of Western women who devoted their young lives to ISIS, including British recruit Shamima Begum (pictured), who fled the country with two school friends when she was just 15, and Hoda Muthana from the U.S.