Netflix Boards Cate Blanchett’s Stateless

Netflix has come on board the immigration drama Stateless, produced by Matchbox Pictures and Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton’s Dirty Films for the ABC in Australia.

Stateless follows four people caught up in an immigration system that profoundly affects their lives. Each character deals with the contradictions of protection and border control from a unique perspective, offering relevant and timely insight into issues that countries are grappling with around the world.

Netflix will premiere the six-episode limited series globally outside of Australia. The series will launch on the ABC on March 1 and will premiere on Netflix in the rest of the world later this year.

Co-created by Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredie, Stateless features a multi-award-winning cast that includes Yvonne Strahovski, Jai Courtney, Asher Keddie, Fayssal Bazzi, Dominic West and Blanchett.

Blanchett, Ayres and McCredie commented: “Stateless has been a labor of love for many years and we could not be more thrilled that it will reach an international audience on Netflix. The issues addressed in the series have universal resonance but have been cloaked in silence and muddied by fear and misinformation. Our hope is that Stateless will generate a global conversation around our systems of border protection and how our humanity has been affected by them.”

Alastair McKinnon, managing director of Matchbox Pictures, added: “Stateless is a drama series that thrillingly taps into one of the biggest socio-political issues of our time and Netflix, with its unparalleled global reach, is the perfect platform to take this brilliant series to the world.”