{"id":9167,"date":"2019-03-21T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/leaving-neverland-filmmaker-joins-edinburgh-tv-festival-lineup\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:08:04","slug":"leaving-neverland-filmmaker-joins-edinburgh-tv-festival-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2019\/03\/21\/leaving-neverland-filmmaker-joins-edinburgh-tv-festival-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Neverland Filmmaker Joins Edinburgh TV Festival Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edinburgh TV Festival has added to its lineup Dan Reed, the award-winning director and producer of the <em>Leaving Neverland<\/em> Michael Jackson documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, who was also behind the critically-acclaimed documentaries <em>The Valley<\/em>, <em>Terror in Mumbai<\/em> and <em>The Paedophile Hunter<\/em>, will join fellow filmmakers in a panel that explores the future of factual content and viewers\u2019 renewed interest in feature documentaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Leaving Neverland<\/em> shows how unfolding a complex, character-led, uncompromising and very, very long true story can still draw a mass audience in a landscape of info-mush and fake news,\u201d said Reed of his two-part documentary, co-produced by HBO and Channel 4.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Reed, the Edinburgh TV Festival will play host to Russell T Davies and Nicola Shindler, <em>Queer as Folk<\/em>\u2019s writer and executive producer, respectively. Marking the 20th anniversary of the ground-breaking drama, Davies and Shindler will discuss the show and how LGBTQ+ representation has evolved since <em>Queer as Folk<\/em> bowed in 1999 with a panel of stars.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Campbell, the festival director, said:\u00a0\u201cThe Festival is famous for provoking and inspiring in equal measure, and both Russell T Davies and Dan Reed promise to do just that. The turn-of-the-millennium breakthrough hit\u00a0<em>Queer as Folk\u00a0<\/em>dealt with issues that had rarely been seen on TV before and has had a huge impact ever since, while Dan Reed\u2019s compelling film has become one of the most hotly-debated documentaries of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edinburgh TV Festival has added to its lineup Dan Reed, the award-winning director and producer of the Leaving Neverland Michael Jackson documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":9168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1953,1610,1954,1955],"class_list":["post-9167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-dan-reed","tag-edinburgh-tv-festival","tag-leaving-neverland","tag-queer-as-folk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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