Silverlining Rights lines up nine international financing partners for one-off special on recent airline tragedy
Channel 4 in the UK, SBS in Australia and Movistar in Spain are among nine funding partners to have linked up on a fast-turnaround doc exploring the recent loss of an Air India flight.
Air India Flight 171 Tragedy: How Safe Is Your Plane? is from Emporium Productions and investigates what might have led to the devastating crash which killed people on the ground and everyone on board save one survivor, who miraculously was able to walk away.
Production finance broker and distributor Silverlining Rights brought together the partners for Emporium, with C4, SBS and Movistar joined by DR (Denmark), DPG (Belgium), CNN (Portugal) and Hot8 (Israel) on the 1 x 60-minute special. An unnamed US partner and a pan Southeast Asian channel are also attached, the latter via a deal brokered in association with Still Road Media.
The doc, which is due to deliver next month, will draw on 18 months of research into manufacturing problems at Boeing and the 787 Dreamliner and other planes’ safety records, exploring how safe the company’s planes are.
The project is the latest between Silverlining and Emporium, after they worked together on The Sinking of A Superyacht: How Safe Is Your Voyage? (about the maritime disaster involving superyacht Bayesian), and Turbulence: How Safe Is Your Flight?, which looked into the Singapore Airlines air turbulence disaster and the safety implications for future air travellers.
Emma Read, founder and managing director at Emporium, said: “The Air India Flight 171 tragedy is the world’s deadliest air disaster in a decade killing hundreds of people on board and on the ground and there are important questions about plane safety which the victims’ families and the audience need answering.”
Bethan Corney, founder and managing director of Silverlining, added: “Emporium Productions have demonstrated regularly just how good they are at pulling together high quality, fast turnaround documentaries which provide viewers with the best investigations into stories which have made the headlines around the world, which is why we have been able to pull together financing from international broadcasters from the US, Australia, Europe and elsewhere, with more presales in the pipeline.”
Louisa Compton, C4’s head of news and current affairs, specialist factual and sport, added that the doc would be “a powerful and unflinching look into one of the most tragic and mysterious aviation disasters in recent memory.”
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