EXCLUSIVE: Sister, the corporate led by Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone, has accomplished its acquisition of Dorothy St. Footage, which is behind high-profile docs together with Netflix’s The Best Evening in Pop and Pamela: A Love Story.
This comes two years after it took a minority stake within the firm, which was based in 2018 by Julia Nottingham. Sister has now elevated its funding within the enterprise.
The transfer is designed to assist gasoline Dorothy St. Footage’ ambitions to develop its expertise pool within the U.Ok. and U.S. and develop its growth of premium nonfiction collection and docs, in addition to its narrative movie slate, to additional genres and platforms.
Dorothy St. Footage can be behind Disney+’s Coleen Rooney: The Actual Wagatha Story, Peacock’s Anatomy of Lies, Prime Video’s Desperately Searching for Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe and 30 for 30 Be Water. It additionally produced scripted function movie Fringe of Summer season, directed by Lucy Cohen and Alice Russell’s function doc If The Streets Have been On Fireplace.
It has additionally partnered with David Beckham’s Studio 99 to supply a docuseries about Victoria Beckham.
Sister is the corporate behind collection comparable to Netflix’s Black Doves, Eric and Kaos and Keira Knightley thriller The Girl in Cabin 10 in addition to BBC’s The Dream Lands and ITV’s Chilly Water.
The Dorothy St. Footage deal is its newest funding in a media enterprise, having taken stakes in Richard Bacon’s Sure Sure Media, Locksmith Animation, Steph Curry’s Unanimous Media, comedian ebook studio AWA Studios and podcast studio Campside Media.
“Inventive excellence is the north star of all the pieces we do, and Sister’s ethos of independence has been essential to staying true to that imaginative and prescient, and ourselves, as we now have grown,” mentioned Nottingham. “Their help has enabled us to remain adaptable as artistic entrepreneurs, providing useful resource, expertise and a shared view on the numerous alternatives forward to inform extra tales on a broader canvas. It’s the best time to increase our partnership, and I’m excited for what the longer term holds.”
“Our mission at Sister is to help creator-led companies to really fulfil their ambitions and potential globally” mentioned Sister Co-Founder and Govt Chairman Elisabeth Murdoch. “Julia and her distinctive crew are rightly famend for landmark movies and collection that interact audiences and spark conversations around the globe. They’re on a roll, have huge plans, and we couldn’t be happier to be extending our partnership to make these occur.”
“With cinematic imaginative and prescient and illuminating storytelling, Julia and the Dorothy St. crew constantly seize the zeitgeist and exemplify premium of their subject,” added Jane Featherstone, Chief Inventive Officer, Sister. “Their creativity, ardour and expertise make them greatest in school, kindred spirits and far valued companions throughout the Sister group.”
