Emmy-Winning Factual Specialist Lucy van Beek Launches Tailfeather Productions With Netflix, Apple Commissions
variety.comAlex Ritman Lucy van Beek, the award-winning factual TV and film specialist, has launched her own production outfit, Tailfeather Productions.
The company, whose focus will be premium specialist factual documentaries and series for streaming platforms, broadcasters and theatrical release, launches with two major commissions, “Alexander: The Making of a God” for Netflix and “Born to Be Wild” for Apple TV+.
Van Beek, who trained with the BBC Natural History Unit, has been behind shows including “Britain From Above” for the BBC and National Geographic’s “China’s Megatomb Revealed.” Across her career she’s won seven Emmy Awards, a BAFTA, the New York Film Festival Creative Award, and numerous science and natural history awards. “My mission with Tailfeather is to use the latest research and technology combined with journalistic rigour and compelling storytelling, to craft specialist factual experiences that will resonate with audiences,” said van Beek. “We want to unlock the past in new ways and to examine the natural world using the very best tools and latest research available to us.” The first commission for Tailfeather Productions is in association with van Beek’s former employer Lion Television to create “Alexander: The Making of a God,” co-executive produced with Lion TV’s Nick Catliff.
To tell Alexander’s story, the six-part docuseries incorporates contemporary accounts and fact-based archaeology, much of which is based on ongoing excavations being undertaken by Greek archaeologist Calliope Limneos-Papakosta in Alexandria, Egypt.
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