Soon-to-launch US cable network OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has unveiled three documentary acquisitions, including a film about a Canadian woman suffering from cystic fibrosis. : 65_RedRoses.
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Soon-to-launch US cable network OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has
unveiled three documentary acquisitions, including a film about a
Canadian woman suffering from cystic fibrosis.
65_RedRoses is one of three films picked up by the network for its
forthcoming Documentary Film Club strand, which launches next spring.
It tells the story of a 23-year-old woman with the genetic disease and
awaiting a double lung transplant.
The doc is directed by Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall, and produced
by Force Four Entertainment in association with CBC Newsworld and
Dualogue Productions.
Elsewhere, One Lucky Elephant follows a circus producer as he
struggles to find a permanent home for an orphaned baby African
elephant, while Most Valuable Players is a doc about the Freddy
Awards, a live TV event honouring outstanding high school musical
theatre in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The former is directed by Lisa Leeman and exec produced by Sandbar
Pictures, while the latter is a Canyonback Films production directed
and produced by Matthew D Kallis.
"OWN seeks to entertain, inspire and inform," said Lisa Erspamer,
OWN's chief creative officer. "What better way to further that mission
than to provide a mainstream platform for emerging and established
documentary filmmakers to present different stories that move the
viewer, and then to encourage a dialogue and exchange of ideas?"