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‘Jurassic World’ Producer Frank Marshall’s ‘Picabo’ Among Olympics Channel Programming Ahead of Beijing Games – Global Bulletin

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PROGRAMMING

“Picabo,” co-directed by Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn and Hollywood producing legend Frank Marshall (the Jason Bourne, Jurassic World and Indiana Jones franchises), is among the many programming revealed by the Olympics Channel forward of the Olympic Winter Video games Beijing 2022, which commences Feb. 4.

The programming consists of tales of winter athletes previous and current. “Picabo” illustrates the life and profession of U.S. Olympic downhill alpine snowboarding champion Picabo Road, each an idol and a mentor to Vonn. The movie is on the market completely on Peacock within the U.S., and in the remainder of the world at Olympics.com. “A Sensible Curling Story” revisits the story of 5 unassuming however fiercely pushed Scottish girls who overcame the chances to win a historic gold medal for Nice Britain on the Olympic Winter Video games Salt Lake Metropolis 2002.

“On Edge,” a docu-series produced by Bunim Murray Productions (“Holding Up With The Kardashians”) options six of ice dancing’s highest-ranking {couples} as they put together for his or her greatest problem – qualifying for the Olympic Winter Video games Beijing 2022. Two new winter episodes on “From the High,” Elton John’s manufacturing firm Rocket Sports activities, sees Austrian Olympic snowboarder Anna Gasser and American ice skater Nathan Chen paired with contemporaries from the world of music – Sofia Carson and Hayley Kiyoko.

4-episode authentic sequence “From the Begin” tells the tales of short-track pace skater Arianna Fontana (Italy), world champion snowboarder Mark McMorris (Canada), Olympic luge silver medalist Chris Mazdzer (U.S.) and multi-sport Paralympic star Oksana Masters (U.S.), sees every athlete share the story of how they reached the top of their sport.

COMPETITION

Netflix India has revealed Take Ten, a brief movie workshop and competitors that goals to find and assist rising filmmakers from various backgrounds in India. Ten filmmakers will probably be given a chance to attend workshops by administrators Abhishek Chaubey, Hansal Mehta and Neeraj Ghaywan, screenwriter Juhi Chaturvedi and producer Guneet Monga after which to make a completely funded quick movie with a $10,000 grant. The movies will probably be proven on Netflix’s India YouTube channel.

Take Ten is sponsored by the Netflix Fund for Inventive Fairness, which has devoted $100 million a 12 months over 5 years to setting underrepresented communities up for achievement within the TV and movie industries via packages all world wide. The initiative is led by movie critic and former Selection contributor Anupama Chopra.

APPOINTMENTS

Roughcut TV, producer of HBO Max and Channel 4 sequence “Stath Lets Flats” has appointed Inez Gordon and Ben Worsfield as growth producers to work throughout comedy and drama in growing the corporate’s increasing manufacturing slate. Worsfield just lately produced produced “The Thoughts of Herbert Clunkerdunk” season 2 for BBC Two, and, previous to that, was senior growth producer at Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s manufacturing firm, Stolen Image. Gordon labored on “This Nation” at BBC Three and in 2019 produced Gbemisola Ikumelo’s quick “Mind in Gear,” which gained the perfect quick program BAFTA.

HOSTS

Tv presenter A.J. Odudu and comic Tom Allen have joined this 12 months’s EE British Academy Movie Awards presenting staff because the co-hosts of BAFTA’s purple carpet present on March 13 at London’s Royal Albert Corridor. Their interviews with nominees and friends will probably be streamed stay throughout BAFTA’s social channels. As beforehand introduced, Insurgent Wilson will host this 12 months’s movie awards ceremony.

A.J. Odudu, Tom Allen
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