“Sherpa” team reunites for BBC, ABC feature copro, “River”
London-headquartered Arrow Pictures and Sydney-based Stranger than Fiction Films are teaming for an upcoming theatrical documentary exploring the relationship between human beings and rivers.
River, commissioned by ABC Arts and BBC ...
February 23, 2021
London-headquartered Arrow Pictures and Sydney-based Stranger than Fiction Films are teaming for an upcoming theatrical documentary exploring the relationship between human beings and rivers.
River, commissioned by ABC Arts and BBC Arts and coproduced with distributors Dogwoof and Madman Entertainment, will be co-directed by Jennifer Peedom and Joseph Nizeti, and produced by Peedom and Jo-Anne McGowan from Stranger than Fiction and John Smithson from Arrow Pictures. Peedeom and Smithson last worked together on Sherpa, a 2015 doc which won multiple awards following its run on the festival circuit and theatrical release, including a Grierson Award for best documentary, the Australian Film Critics Circle Award, the Australian Directors Guild Award, several audience awards and a BAFTA nomination in 2016.