UPCOMING PROJECTS

Voices From Isolation

2021, Feature-Length Documentary
Producer/Director
Sonita Gale

Voices From Isolation is Sonita Gale's directorial debut, now in post-production.

The film was one of 35 projects out of 500 applicants to be seleced to attend the prestigious CPH:Forum in April 2021. The full listing of films selected for the forum can be viewed here: https://en.cphdox.dk/forum/projects

Voices from Isolation is a feature documentary shining a light on the effects of the hostile environment immigration policies in the UK.

The UK’s relationship with migrants seems to be getting worse, with overseas NHS workers to international students facing discrimination and destitution due to hostile policies. 

With Brexit and the points-based system already taking effect,  the film asks the question: once the hostile environment has been rolled out to target all migrants in the country, who will it extend to next?

Visit our website at: www.voicesfromisolation.com/

You can also keep up to date with the film on Twitter and Instagram.

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DHARAVI

Feature-Length Documentary
Producer
Sonita Gale

Director
Smriti Mundhra

Co-Director and DOP
Jerry Henry

With producers Sonita Gale, Shelby Stone and Derek Dudley, we are making a feature-length, veriteĢ musical documentary. DHARAVI is a documentary about the burgeoning hip hop movement taking place in and around the bylanes of Mumbai’s largest slum.

The film is being directed by Academy Award-nominated Smriti Mundhra - one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 Filmmakers to Watch – and Jerry Henry, recipient of the Director’s Guild of America Student Award and the Gordon Parks Emerging African American Filmmaker Award.

Smriti's last film, A Suitable Girl, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival to rave reviews (she won the Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director) and has been developed into a spin off show in production with Netflix. Meanwhile her latest short - St. Louis Superman - won the Best Short award at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, was in competition at Tribeca 2019, and was at HotDocs 2019: a terrific run which culminated in an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short. She also created and executive produced Indian Matchmaking, an eight-part Netflix original documentary series currently streaming on the platform.

Smriti has worked in a close creative capacity with her DOP Jerry Henry for the past few years (including St. Louis Superman), and has chosen to co-direct this project with him. Jerry's cinematography projects include work on Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop, the Peabody Award winning American Revolutionary by director Grace Lee, the HBO series The Defiant Ones, and The Rachel Divide, which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and can be seen on Netflix. In 2018, Def Jam Recordings hired him to direct and shoot the documentary Stay Dangerous (to coincide with the release of an album by Def Jam Artist YG). More recently his award-winning short documentary I Promise Africa premiered in over 100 film festivals worldwide and won many prestigious awards, among them a Directors Guild of America Student Award

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HER

2021, Feature-Length Documentary
Director
Geeta Gandbhir

Producers
Sonita Gale, John Legend, Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorius, Austyn Biggers and Theo London

HER is a feature-length documentary that will be an exploration of the lives and music careers of a group of women who collaborated with, and inspired, a music icon. This project is produced with John Legend, Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorius and Austyn Biggers of the LA-based production outfit, Get Lifted Film Co.
 
The director bringing this special project to the screen is Geeta Gandbhir, an Emmy award-winning filmmaker who has been involved in making some ground-breaking documentaries such as Alex Gibney's Mr: Dynamite: The Rise and Fall of James Brown, HBO's When The Levees Broke, as well as HBO's I am Evidence and the "Rapsody" Episode of Netflix's Rapture Series, both of which she directed.
 
Geeta recently directed the upcoming six-part television event series Why We Hate, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney. She was recently Oscar-shortlisted for her short film Call Center Blues, a lyrical portrait of an unlikely community of US deportees and their loved ones struggling to rebuild their lives in Tijuana, Mexico.
 
Geeta has been a recipient of a Ford Foundation grant, a MacArthur Grant, and Chicken and Egg’s prestigious Breakthrough Filmmaker Award. 
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The Richest Man in the World

Limited Series
Executive Producer/ Lead Actor
Brian Cox

Writer
Guy Jenkin

Executive Producers
Sonita Gale, Matthew Lesher

Following on from our successful documentary Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace, we’re delighted to announce David Nasaw's fascinating 2006 biography of the millionaire philanthropist will form the basis of our upcoming drama. Golden Globe-winning actor Brian Cox is in the lead.

You can view the documentary on Amazon Prime here.

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