K.J. Yossman Netflix has partnered with Creative U.K. to launch a program for U.K. filmmakers working on their debut feature,Titled Breakout, the program will fund the films’ development, with the primary criteria being that they are high quality, genre-based and British.“Breakout will give new U.K.
based filmmakers the opportunity to take popular genres audiences love, from sci-fi, to thriller and horror, to comedy and romance, and reinterpret them through a distinctively British lens,” is how the program is being described.
It is driven, according to Netflix and Creative U.K., “by the principle that daring, ambitious filmmaking can drive commercial as well as critical success and can emerge from all backgrounds.” Participants will be made up of six teams, each of which will receive £30,000 ($40,000) worth of development funding in addition to a Creative U.K.
training program comprised of mentoring and residential lab events. Netflix executives will also provide support and input.At least one filmmaker will emerge from the program with a greenlight from Netflix and a £1.5 million ($2 million) budget to make a genre film (whether a mystery and crime thriller, bold and original horror, comedy and rom-com or young adult and family adventure) which will later receive a global launch on the streaming platform.“We know there are so many brilliant emerging genre voices in the U.K.
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