EXCLUSIVE: Vladimir Putin‘s 10-year-old battle with a bunch of Greenpeace protestors that attracted the eye of none aside from Paul McCartney is to be spotlighted in a BBC documentary collection.
Curve Media’s On Skinny Ice: Putin V Greenpeace (working title) is being positioned because the BBC’s newest box-set collection and can break with custom by airing by way of bitesized half-hour episodes.
The collection will comply with what occurred when a bunch of local weather activists on a daring mission to disrupt Russia’s Arctic oil manufacturing unwittingly sailed right into a pivotal second in Putin’s relationship with the West in 2013.
Generally known as the Arctic 30, the group had needed to movie a protest and discourage a world Arctic oil rush, however they have been arrested and incarcerated in a brutal Russian jail. Russian safety companies had been monitoring their actions and phrase got here from the very prime: the protestors can be made an instance of – nobody would dare get in the way in which of Russia’s plans for oil dominance once more.
The group gained the eye of The Beatles frontman, who wrote an open letter to Putin urging their launch. Within the letter, he referenced 1968 Beatles observe “Again within the USSR” and requested for a gathering with Putin “when our schedules permit.” He had performed a live performance in Moscow’s Purple Sq. in 2003.
The 28 activists and two journalists, who had been arrested below piracy and hooliganism costs, have been launched three months later, and subsequently their ship the Arctic Dawn was given again.
A girl holds a Greenpeace flag and waves as Greenpeace’s Dutch-flagged Artic Dawn ship returns to the Netherlands on August 9, 2014. Picture: REMKO DE WAAL/AFP by way of Getty.
On Skinny Ice will draw on a wealth of beforehand unseen footage and in depth actuality filmed throughout and following the protest, plus cinematic reconstructions and interviews.
Sreya Biswas, the BBC’s pure historical past commissioning boss, stated the collection gives “a unique means of telling a narrative in regards to the pure world. “It’s a compelling environmental narrative, instructed in six fast-paced half-hour episodes, that’s vital to listen to inside the present local weather,” she added.
The collection was commissioned by Jack Bootle, Head of Commissioning, Specialist Factual. It’s government produced by Sunshine Jackson, co-series directed by Chloe Campbell (Homicide within the Pacific) and Alice McMahon-Main (Three Moms, Two Infants and a Scandal) and produced by Clare Beavis. Commissioning editor is Biswas. ITV Studios is distributing.
