Lucy van Beek, the award-winning factual TV and movie specialist, has launched her personal manufacturing outfit, Tailfeather Productions.

The corporate, whose focus shall be premium specialist factual documentaries and collection for streaming platforms, broadcasters and theatrical launch, launches with two main commissions, “Alexander: The Making of a God” for Netflix and “Born to Be Wild” for Apple TV+.

Van Beek, who skilled with the BBC Pure Historical past Unit, has been behind reveals together with “Britain From Above” for the BBC and Nationwide Geographic’s “China’s Megatomb Revealed.” Throughout her profession she’s received seven Emmy Awards, a BAFTA, the New York Movie Pageant Artistic Award, and quite a few science and pure historical past awards.   

“My mission with Tailfeather is to make use of the newest analysis and know-how mixed with journalistic rigour and compelling storytelling, to craft specialist factual experiences that may resonate with audiences,” mentioned van Beek. “We wish to unlock the previous in new methods and to look at the pure world utilizing the perfect instruments and newest analysis obtainable to us.”

The primary fee for Tailfeather Productions is in affiliation with van Beek’s former employer Lion Tv to create “Alexander: The Making of a God,” co-executive produced with Lion TV’s Nick Catliff. To inform Alexander’s story, the six-part docuseries incorporates modern accounts and fact-based archaeology, a lot of which is predicated on ongoing excavations being undertaken by Greek archaeologist Calliope Limneos-Papakosta in Alexandria, Egypt. The collection premieres globally on Netflix on Jan. 31. 

The second fee, “Born to Be Wild,” is a co-production with Offspring Movies for Apple TV. The six-part nature documentary collection follows six uncommon younger animals over a number of years as they’re introduced up within the human world and finally returned to their homelands to assist save their species. Utilizing the newest digicam and monitoring know-how, the collection follows the journey of a Savanna elephant calf, two younger cheetahs, a ring-tailed lemur pup, a moon bear cub, Iberian lynx kits and orphaned African penguins, from both start or their first few months of life, by way of to their launch into the wild.

Different credit for van Beek, whose profession started engaged on David Attenborough’s “Tune of the Earth,” embrace “Riders of the Storm,” “Journey to the Middle of the Earth,” “Fashionable Masters,” “Stephen Hawking’s Seek for a New Earth,” “The Crusades” and the worldwide rankings smash “The Great World of Puppies.”