Oscar-winning
Free Solo filmmakers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have partnered again with National Geographic on four new unscripted projects, the network revealed today (Feb. 9) as part of its Television Critics Association winter press tour.
Nat Geo also announced a partnership with acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter (
The Way I See It,
John Lewis: Good Trouble) and Trailblazer Studios for a feature documentary on the Tulsa Massacre.
Vasarhelyi (pictured left) and Chin (right) will serve as directors for their slate of projects, comprising two feature films, a 10-part series and a one-hour pilot, all produced by their Little Monster Films banner.
At New York Film Academy (NYFA), our instructors are not only teaching the next wave of filmmakers and creatives alike but are out focusing on their own
National Geographic Documentary Films has partnered once more with Science Fair filmmakers Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster on a feature-length documentary for streaming service Disney+.
Produced by Shopify Studios and Saville Productions, Own the Room charts the journeys .
OWN THE ROOM Will Stream on Disney Plus
The documentary premieres exclusively on Disney+ on March 12..by TV News Desk
Following the success of the Emmy Award-winning, Sundance and SXSW audience favorite Science Fair, National Geographic Documentary Films and filmmakers Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster are joining forces once again on the feature documentary Own the Room , which will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on March 12. Own the Room chronicles five students from disparate corners of the planet as they take their budding business ventures to Macau, China, to compete in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. Santosh is from a small farming town in Nepal; Alondra works the register at her family s bakery in Puerto Rico; Henry is a programming wiz from Nairobi; Jason is a marketing machine from Greece; and Daniela, an immigrant fleeing the crisis in Venezuela, is taking on the chemical industry from her lab at NYU.