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Rock documentaries about the likes of Sinead OConnor, The Happy Mondays and The Towers of London as well as films about boxer Frank Bruno and Murakami Haruki make up the line-up of the Sheffield Doc/Fests pitch scheme MeetMarket.
The event runs in the northern British city from 6-11 June with execs from broadcasters and platforms including Netflix, A+E, BBC, Channel 4 and ESPN set to attend. Films that have previously found funding at the MeetMarket include Searching for Sugarman and The Act of Killing.
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist is producing Nothing Compares, a doc about controversial pop star Sinead OConnor, that looks at her rise to worldwide fame, and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in exile from the mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic behaviour between 1987 and 1992, the film contemporaneously reflects on the legacy of this feminist trailblazer. It is directed by Kathryn Ferguson, who previously directed OConnors 4th & Vine music video.
Adam Darke and Jon Carey, who directed and produced Netflixs Forbidden Games, are making Pills & Thrills: The Happy Mondays Story, which will tell the story of the Mad-chester band featuring unheard tales of pandemonium and debauchery. Darke and Carey are also working on Bruno: The Peoples Champion, which has exclusive access to Frank Brunos personal archive.
Icarus producer Teddy Leifer is exec producing Towers of London: F**K It Up about the eponymous British band. It tells the story of five friends who landed themselves a multimillion-dollar record deal and spectacularly and hilariously screwed it up. It is directed by Glenn Barden and David Hills.
Raphael Levy is directing The Disappearing World of Haruki Murakim with Aleksandra Bilic. The film tells the story of the former jazz-bar owner who began writing decades ago and gives his testimony about a Japan that is about to completely disappear.
Sally Potter and long-time collaborator, producer Christopher Sheppard, will pitch Oh Moscow, a musical documentary using archive and contemporary news footage set against music composed by Lindsay Cooper, with lyrics by Sally PoRead More – Source
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