Kevin Costner (Yellowstone) has set a new project. The Emmy and Academy Award-winner is teaming up with 44 Blue Productions, director and showrunner Smriti Mundhra, series creator Cale Glendening, and executive producers Glenn Kleczkowski and Mark Gillard of Monitor & Merrimack Pictures to develop a new, premium global anthology docuseries, Onward. The series will showcase the traditions and rituals preserved through generations by Indigenous communities around the world. Each episode follows a different community and turns a lens on mankind’s oldest tribes and how their people, land, and cultures have endured through existential threats. The docuseries’ concept is based on Glendening’s documentary short of the same name. It chronicles his time embedded with Kazakh-Mongolia eagle hunters in the remote Altai Mountains of Mongolia. “Onward is not only a preservation project, but also a celebration of culture. My goal is to create the largest visual anthology of Indigenous people in...
- 2/10/2022
- TV Insider
Kevin Costner to Develop Indigenous History Docuseries ‘Onward’ With 44 Blue Productions (Exclusive)
Kevin Costner and 44 Blue Productions have partnered to develop “Onward,” an anthology docuseries about traditions and rituals in Indigenous communities around the world, Variety has learned exclusively.
Each episode of “Onward” focuses on a specific Indigenous community and how their people, land and cultures have endured existential threats such as climate change, commercial development and the pandemic.
The concept for “Onward” is based on Cale Glendening’s documentary short of the same name, which chronicled his time embedded with Kazakh-Mongolia eagle hunters in the remote Altai Mountains of Mongolia. Glendening is the creator of “Onward” and also executive produces alongside Costner, Monitor & Merrimack Pictures’ Glenn Kleczkowski and Mark Gillard. Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch executive produces for 44 Blue, a Red Arrow Studios company. Smriti Mundhra, founder of Meralta Films and creator of “Indian Matchmaking,” will serve as showrunner.
“We hope ‘Onward’ will be an intimate portrait of family and community life...
Each episode of “Onward” focuses on a specific Indigenous community and how their people, land and cultures have endured existential threats such as climate change, commercial development and the pandemic.
The concept for “Onward” is based on Cale Glendening’s documentary short of the same name, which chronicled his time embedded with Kazakh-Mongolia eagle hunters in the remote Altai Mountains of Mongolia. Glendening is the creator of “Onward” and also executive produces alongside Costner, Monitor & Merrimack Pictures’ Glenn Kleczkowski and Mark Gillard. Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch executive produces for 44 Blue, a Red Arrow Studios company. Smriti Mundhra, founder of Meralta Films and creator of “Indian Matchmaking,” will serve as showrunner.
“We hope ‘Onward’ will be an intimate portrait of family and community life...
- 2/10/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
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