EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle has picked up world distribution rights to Hell Jumper, the BBC‘s upcoming doc collection a couple of British support employee who died in Ukraine.
Produced by Clarkson’s Farm maker Expectation and revealed by Deadline final yr, Hell Jumper makes use of first-person footage to observe a bunch of volunteers who got down to save lives in the course of the warfare.
Chris Parry headed in a white van with pals and took to TikTok and Instagram to point out footage of their daring rescues, however he was tragically killed attempting to save lots of an aged girl trapped in her dwelling together with one other volunteer, Andrew Bagshaw.
Fremantle will promote outdoors the UK because the present will get set to launch on the BBC within the coming weeks. The producer-distributor’s worldwide senior acquisitions boss Céire Clark described Hell Jumper as a “exceptional story of resilience.”
“We’re trying ahead to sharing this extraordinary and heart-wrenching story,” she added. “Hell Jumper not solely illuminates the bravery and idealism of youth in occasions of disaster but in addition underscores the facility of affection within the darkest moments. We’re delighted to be working with Expectation TV, and stay up for bringing this story to a worldwide viewers.”
Fremantle additionally sells the likes of the BBC’s Elizabeth Taylor: Insurgent Famous person [working title] and the Drake-produced A Temporary Historical past of the Future.
Hell Jumper is directed by BAFTA-nominee Paddy Wivell and EP’d by Expectation’s Colin Barr. Producer is Adriana Timco and commissioning editor is Carl Callam.