On the heels of its multi-year slate financing partnership with IPR.VC, Pink Bull Studios is ramping up its output of premium sports activities documentary tasks, together with “Reggae Girlz,” an upcoming documentary co-directed by two-time Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (“Saving Face”) and Trish Dalton.
“Reggae Girlz” takes place in the course of the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup and follows the Jamaican ladies’s soccer crew who challenged the powerhouses of France and Brazil in historic matches. The documentary is a portrayal of Jamaica’s coronary heart and soul, that includes Bob Marley’s reggae music.
Obaid-Chinoy and Dalton final teamed on the documentary “Diane von Furstenberg: Girl in Cost” which opened Tribeca final 12 months and streamed on Disney+.
Pink Bull Studios can also be behind Jon Glassberg’s “Lady Climber” which premiered at MountainFilm and partnered with IMAX for a one-night-only screening on Aug. 24 forward of its launch in October. “Lady Climber” tells the story {of professional} climber Emily Harrington who summited Everest, 8000-meter peaks and set her sights on a 24-hour ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan.
Pink Bull Studios lately launched “Dakar: Race In opposition to the Desert,” a 90-minute documentary charting the 2023 Dakar Rally via the attitude of rivals, together with Carlos Sainz Sr., Sébastien Loeb, Nasser Al-Attiyah and Toby Worth who confronted a brutal climate, amongst different hurdles. The movie was launched by Common.
The corporate simply offered John Dower’s documentary “The Balloonists” Toronto and can subsequent take it to Zurich Movie Pageant. The doc charts the journey of Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard and British flight teacher Brian Jones who set off to circumnavigated the globe in a hot-air balloon and confronted excessive climate circumstances, technical failures and exhaustion.
“Our upcoming slate highlights the spirit of journey and freedom. Particularly if you outline journey as an thrilling and weird expertise that takes one to locations no-one has gone earlier than,” stated Philipp Manderla, Pink Bull Studios’s world head. “That is actually true for the arch-adventure of flying across the earth in a balloon for the primary time simply as that is true for Emily Harrington and the journey she goes on in Lady Climber,” Manderla continues.
The chief stated the banner is searching for “distinctive tales wherein folks attempt to attain one thing that has not been completed earlier than and the main target lies on the human story that unfolds whereas pushing these boundaries.”
Pink Bull Studios’ slate additionally contains “The Actual Mo Farah,” the Emmy nominee and SXSW Viewers Award winner “The Daybreak Wall” and the Austin Movie Pageant Viewers Award winner “Born to Fly” about Observe & Area celebrity Mondo Duplantis.
