‘Lost’: Beach House Pictures Sets Doc On Disappearance Of Instagram Adventurer Justin Alexander As It Shines Light On Asian True Crime
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Beach House Pictures is riding the crest of an Asian true crime wave. Having created three premium doc projects for Netflix, the Singapore-based producer has now optioned the story of the disappeared Instagram adventurer Justin Alexander.
A premium doc, Lost, is in development after Blue Ant Media-owned Beach House took the rights to Harley Rustad’s book ‘Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas.’ It has access to all the key players in the story and is headed to Mipcom next week to find potential partners. “It’s at the nexus point between the East and West that we get fascinated about as storytellers in Asia and from an international perspective,” said Beach House co-founder Donovan Chan.
He has been closely working with co-founder and business partner Jocelyn Little and Head of Factual Rob Sixsmith to build a network of sources across Asia that provides local, often unknown, true crime stories with international potential.
The company then partners with local creatives and crews to ensure the story has local filmmaking authenticity with Western production standards.
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