BBC announces 2023 winter slate of Storyville filmsThe films will be shown in early 2023 on BBC Four and iPlayerOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY BBC Four The BBC’s award-winning strand showcasing the very best in international documentaries today announced a new slate of films to be shown in early 2023 on BBC Four and iPlayer. This follows the news that Emma Hindley has been appointed as Lead Commissioning Editor, Storyville. Three Minutes: A Lengthening(24 Jan, 10pm, BBC Four and iPlayer) Three minutes of footage is all that remains of the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland, filmed in 1938 by photographer David Kurtz. With narration from Helena Bonham Carter, Three Minutes: A Lengthening unravels the stories hidden in the celluloid with insight from the filmmaker’s grandson and a boy who appears in the faded footage – one of few survivors of the village decimated in the Holocaust. Directed by Bianca Stiger The footage was filmed by David Kurtz and made available courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Commissioning Editor for BBC Storyville, Lucie Kon Casa Susanna(31 Jan, 10pm, BBC Four and iPlayer) In the 1950’s and 1960’s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskill mountains was Casa Susanna, a small wooden house with a barn behind it, holiday home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers. Diane and Kate are now 80 years old. At the time, they were men, enjoying weekend visits to the house with their wives and friends. In Casa Susanna, they tell this forgotten chapter of the early days of trans-identity. Directed by Sebastian Lifshitz Blue BoxAs a child, Israeli filmmaker, Michal Weits remembers her great-grandfather as an almost mythical figure. Described by his children as the “ultimate Zionist,” Yosef Weits was a prominent member of the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine, tasked with purchasing land for a Jewish homeland. He set up and ran a hugely successful fundraising effort, the Blue Box campaign and was widely celebrated the man who “turned the desert green” - the ‘Father’ of Israel’s forests. But in his diaries, Michal’s great-grandfather reveals a darker side to himself, one that suggests that whilst he may have helped to establish the Jewish State, he also orchestrated the expropriation of Palestinian land, preventing Arabs who had fled or were forced to leave during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence from ever returning. Directed by Michal Weits The Spy on Your MobileAn investigation into the powerful and terrifying spyware Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group and used on journalists, activists, the wife and fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and others. Directed by Anne Poiret and Arthur Bouvart Traitors and Heroes: Inside RussiaIt’s been dangerous for ordinary Russians to speak up against Vladimir Putin’s regime for years, but new censorship laws introduced after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have made the danger even greater. Despite the huge risks, two Russian filmmakers have been filming the impact of the war inside their country. Whilst many thousands have fled, those that stayed have had to choose - to oppose, support or stay silent about Russia’s War in Ukraine. Commissioning Editors for BBC Storyville, Emma Hindley and Lucie Kon Sex on ScreenSex on Screen explores the process of creating sex scenes in Hollywood, the toll these scenes take on those involved in filming them, and the impact on women and girls in the real world. The film features candid interviews with actors and creators, including Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette, Joey Soloway, Angela Robinson, Karyn Kusama, Rose McGowan, Alexandra Billings, Emily Meade, and David Simon and highlights the voices of women who have spoken out against abusive behaviour on their sets and were punished for it. Directed by Kirsty Guevara-Flanagan Featuring (In Order of Appearance) Commissioning Editor for BBC Storyville, Lucie Kon
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January 23, 2023 4:00am ET by BBC Four |