A changing of the guard is underway at the production company formerly led by Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff.
The London-based outfit, historically known as Insight Twi (The World Investigates), is rebranding as Insight Films, with producers Clive Patterson and Hugh Davies taking ownership as co-directors of the business, which specializes in hard-hitting documentary fare.
Insight Films’ recent credits include the feature documentary “Sing, Freetown,” in which investigative journalist Sorious Samura travels to Sierra Leone to create a theater production about the nation’s history with playwright Charlie Haffner; and three-part BBC One series “Football’s Darkest Secret,” an in-depth investigation into historical child abuse in English football.
New leadership has been expected for some time, given Ossoff’s election triumph in January. The Atlanta native, who waded into the political ring shortly after Donald Trump was elected president in late 2016, won one of two Georgia Senate seats, alongside Rev.
The London-based outfit, historically known as Insight Twi (The World Investigates), is rebranding as Insight Films, with producers Clive Patterson and Hugh Davies taking ownership as co-directors of the business, which specializes in hard-hitting documentary fare.
Insight Films’ recent credits include the feature documentary “Sing, Freetown,” in which investigative journalist Sorious Samura travels to Sierra Leone to create a theater production about the nation’s history with playwright Charlie Haffner; and three-part BBC One series “Football’s Darkest Secret,” an in-depth investigation into historical child abuse in English football.
New leadership has been expected for some time, given Ossoff’s election triumph in January. The Atlanta native, who waded into the political ring shortly after Donald Trump was elected president in late 2016, won one of two Georgia Senate seats, alongside Rev.
- 7/30/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
This special film follows a journalist and a theatre-maker as they attempt to reframe their national identity on stage, even as the project threatens their long friendship
Cinema is often connected to dreams and triumphs, and yet failure can make for a far more arresting subject. This astonishing documentary both demythologises the creative process and captures a tortuous artistic collaboration full of human messiness and complexity.
With an evocative opening image of a man paddling a small boat towards the shore, Sing, Freetown is about returning, both physically and metaphorically. The image recalls the history of Sierra Leone as a territory where liberated Africans resettled after the slave trade was outlawed. Bafta- and Emmy-winning journalist Sorious Samura is also on his own odyssey. Weary of reporting on the poverty and civil unrest in Africa, Samura has come back to Sierra Leone, his homeland, to create a theatre piece that is...
Cinema is often connected to dreams and triumphs, and yet failure can make for a far more arresting subject. This astonishing documentary both demythologises the creative process and captures a tortuous artistic collaboration full of human messiness and complexity.
With an evocative opening image of a man paddling a small boat towards the shore, Sing, Freetown is about returning, both physically and metaphorically. The image recalls the history of Sierra Leone as a territory where liberated Africans resettled after the slave trade was outlawed. Bafta- and Emmy-winning journalist Sorious Samura is also on his own odyssey. Weary of reporting on the poverty and civil unrest in Africa, Samura has come back to Sierra Leone, his homeland, to create a theatre piece that is...
- 6/22/2021
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Anybody who has ever tried to mount a play from scratch will know just how much force of will is required, even in the most ideal of circumstances. Productions are a sea of moving parts, from script through to staging and front of house sponsorships, meaning the whole situation can feel like herding cats, while a steep learning curve is often demanded.
All this is something that news reporter Sorious Samura finds himself discovering as he goes along after he decides that he wants to move away from the usual depictions of his homeland of Sierra Leone as wartorn and disease ravaged and to present a more positive viewpoint of the nation's rich history and culture that has often been, at best, drowned out and, at worst obliterated, by colonialism.
Samura - an expat, who has lived in Britain for many years - turns to his former teacher and now good friend,...
All this is something that news reporter Sorious Samura finds himself discovering as he goes along after he decides that he wants to move away from the usual depictions of his homeland of Sierra Leone as wartorn and disease ravaged and to present a more positive viewpoint of the nation's rich history and culture that has often been, at best, drowned out and, at worst obliterated, by colonialism.
Samura - an expat, who has lived in Britain for many years - turns to his former teacher and now good friend,...
- 6/13/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"We need to move this nation forward... That will lead into a brighter, better future." Insight Films has released the first official trailer for a documentary film titled Sing, Freetown, from doc filmmaker Clive Patterson. This is premiering at the Sheffield DocFest coming up in a few weeks, then it opens in the cinema in the UK later in June. The doc film follows an Emmy winning investigative journalist from Sierra Leone, named Sorious Samura, who's grown tired telling negative stories about Africa. He embarks on a journey with his best friend, Sierra Leone's most famous playwright – Charlie Haffner, to create an epic work of national theatre – a play to reclaim their country from negative media narratives and the damaging legacy of colonial rule. It doesn't go as planned... This is a remarkably fascinating clash-of-cultures confrontation to capture on camera. It seems to explore the idea how to evolve, which...
- 5/27/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
This intriguing 1-hour BBC documentary, Living with Illegals, details the experiences of British journalist Sorious Samura who travels with Africans trying to get into Europe illegally. Living in the exact same conditions, and through the same experiences and grueling hardships as his illegal companions, Samura travels from Morocco, through Spain and France, finally crossing the English Channel to Britain, in order to understand the reality of being an illegal immigrant. Watch below (h/t Afro-Europe Blogspot):...
- 3/25/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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