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.
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Disney+ to Exclusively Premiere Documentary ‘Own the Room’ on March 12
February 8, 2021 GMT
Credit: National Geographic Documentary Films and Disney+
BURBANK, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 8, 2021
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.
Credit: National Geographic Documentary Films and Disney+
“
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 Pue
Awards for the 2021 Sundance festival were presented Tuesday evening. The festival, which was held virtually online for the first time, started on Thursday and ends today.
National Geographic Documentary Films Acquires Worldwide Rights for Underwater Exploration Feature Playing with Sharks Out of Sundance
Playing with Sharks Documents the Life of Australian Icon, Conservationist and Filmmaker Valerie Taylor
WASHINGTON (BUSINESS WIRE) National Geographic Documentary Films announced today the acquisition of the feature documentary
Playing with Sharks, from two-time Emmy-nominated director Sally Aitken, WildBear Entertainment and Dogwoof. The film documents the life of Australian icon, conservationist and filmmaker Valerie Taylor.
Called “visually stunning,” “enthralling” and “gorgeous” by critics after its Sundance premiere Friday evening, Playing with Sharks captures the life of a woman ahead of her time a true pioneer in both underwater filmmaking and shark research, whose life’s work has become the basis for much of what we know about sharks today. Through remarkable underwater archival footage, along with interviews with Vale