NEON Picks Up Raoul Peck Documentary ‘Orwell’
deadline.comNEON has acquired the North American rights to Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning director, Raoul Peck’s (I Am Not Your Negro) documentary Orwell, the definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell, with the exclusive cooperation of the Orwell Estate.
Producers include Alex Gibney for Jigsaw Productions, Raoul Peck for Velvet Films, and Nick Shumaker for Anonymous Content. Stacey Offman and Richard Perello will executive produce for Jigsaw.
Zhang Xin, Joey Marra, and William Horberg will executive produce for Closer Media, alongside Jessica Grimshaw, Dawn Olmstead, and David Levine of Anonymous, and Jeff Skoll and Courtney Sexton of Participant.
Johnny Fewings of Universal Pictures Content Group will serve as executive producer on the film, which is currently in production. “’Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past…,’ wrote Orwell in his novel, 1984.
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