Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's eagerly-anticipated bombshell Netflix series is due to be released this week and, ever since the first trailer was dropped, people haven't been able to stop talking about it.
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EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Benelux joint venture producer Scenery has signed an exclusive partnership deal with the director of the company’s Netflix doc series Human Playground, Tomas Kaan.
He joins the firm, which Banijay Benelux runs as a JV with producers Lea Fels and Isidoor Roebers, as Creative Producer. He will develop international stories and support other talent to fulfil their own doc plans.
Kaan directed the Idris Elba-narrated Human Playground, a six-part doc series Scenery co-produced with Banijay UK’s Workerbee about the origins and evolutions of the world’s most unique sports for Netflix internationally and Youku in China. He also directed Netflix’s sex line drama Dirty Lines, which was nominated for a Golden Calf.
The Tanzania-born director’s upcoming projects include a collaboration of Luuk Bouwman on The Eighth Continent, a doc series about moon missions.
Fels, Partner at Scenery said: “Tomas is a genre-transcending storyteller who crosses countless boundaries with his urgent and contemporary stories to reach an international audience. His working method and high-quality standards fit seamlessly with what we strive for with Scenery and we are honoured to have him join us.”
She told Deadline he would be developing some existing ideas that will be taken out internationally pitching and would act as showrunner on them “if necessary,” and would also create his own projects.
“Since the launch of Human Playground, our international adventure has only become bigger and more exciting,” added Kaan. “My ambition as a director has always been boundless, literally, and figuratively. Thanks to Scenery, I don’t have to move to L.A. to make this happen. I enjoy working with the best makers and guiding them creatively, to
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