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Valparaiso Pictures Reveals Doc ‘The Toxic Pigs Of Fukushima’ From ‘The Eagle Huntress’ Director & ‘Grizzly Man’ Editor deadline.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 7 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: Valparaiso Pictures has wrapped shooting on documentary The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima, directed by BAFTA nominee Otto Bell (The Eagle Huntress), with Emmy winner Joe Bini (You Were Never Really Here) on board to edit.
The 40-minute doc charts the destruction wrought by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 which triggered a tsunami, nuclear meltdown and mass evacuations.
Bell’s BAFTA-nominated first documentary The Eagle Huntress premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.
Bini won a Sundance award for best editing on the HBO documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired and an Emmy for his writing on the same documentary.
Valparaiso recently announced its is partnering with Mattel Films and Daniel Kaluuya’s 59% to develop a live-action motion picture based on Barney, Mattel’s iconic purple dinosaur.