‘A Small Light’ Star Bel Powley & Creator Joan Rater On Importance Of Bringing The True Story Of Miep Gies To Life – Contenders TV
deadline.comA Small Light star Bel Powley and creator, writer and executive producer Joan Rater joined Deadline’s Contenders TV event Saturday to discuss the Holocaust-centric series and the importance of highlighting a different aspect of the era onscreen.
The eight-part Nat Geo series debuts May 1st with two back-to-back episodes, with new episodes streaming the following day on Disney+ and Hulu.
A Small Light tells the story of Austrian secretary Miep Gies (Bel Powley), a twentysomething who didn’t hesitate when her boss Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber) asked her to hide him and his family from the Nazis during World War II.
For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan (Joe Cole) and several others help watch over the eight people hiding in a secret annex.
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