{"id":19293,"date":"2023-02-08T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/workerbee-inks-deal-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:22:27","slug":"workerbee-inks-deal-with-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/workerbee-inks-deal-with-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Workerbee Inks Deal with Oscar Winner Kevin Macdonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay\u2019s Workerbee has signed a multi-project deal with Scottish Oscar-winning director and producer Kevin Macdonald (<em>One Day in September<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Macdonald will executive produce and direct premium factual projects with the label over the next two years. The first project he is working on is a major feature documentary for a streamer.<\/p>\n<p>Macdonald\u2019s credits include <em>One Day in September<\/em>, about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, for which he won the Academy Award for best documentary feature; the climbing documentary <em>Touching the Void<\/em>; the Bob Marley documentary <em>Marley<\/em>; and the Whitney Houston documentary <em>Whitney<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Murray, CEO of the Workerbee Group, said, \u201cAfter working closely with Kevin as co-director on <em>Bruno vs Tyson<\/em> and exec on our <em>Janet<\/em> series, we are delighted to be furthering our relationship with this deal. On a personal level, I\u2019m a huge fan of Kevin\u2019s approach to storytelling, and his partnerships with our lead director, Ben Hirsh, have produced our most exciting documentary projects to date. Knowing we are going to forge more high-profile films together is a great way to kickstart our Workerbee Films division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macdonald added, \u201cI\u2019ve had a rewarding time working with Rick and the Workerbee team on several projects over the last few years and am excited to formalize our relationship and work with them on a host of new documentaries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay\u2019s Workerbee has signed a multi-project deal with Scottish Oscar-winning director and producer Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":19294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[5036,5009,6921,5104],"class_list":["post-19293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-banijay","tag-kevin-macdonald","tag-rick-murray","tag-workerbee","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Workerbee Inks Deal with Oscar Winner Kevin Macdonald - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/workerbee-inks-deal-with-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Workerbee Inks Deal with Oscar Winner Kevin Macdonald - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Banijay\u2019s Workerbee has signed a multi-project deal with Scottish Oscar-winning director and producer Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/workerbee-inks-deal-with-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-08T15:22:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/Workerbee-Logo-223.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/workerbee-inks-deal-with-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/workerbee-inks-deal-with-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald\/\",\"name\":\"Workerbee Inks Deal with Oscar Winner Kevin Macdonald - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-08T15:22:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-08T15:22:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/workerbee-inks-deal-with-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/workerbee-inks-deal-with-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/workerbee-inks-deal-with-oscar-winner-kevin-macdonald\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Workerbee Inks Deal with Oscar Winner Kevin Macdonald\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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