Exclusive: Fremantle has picked up global distribution rights to Hell Jumper, the BBC’s upcoming doc series about a British aid worker who died in Ukraine.
Produced by Clarkson’s Farm maker Expectation and revealed by Deadline last year, Hell Jumper uses first-person footage to follow a group of volunteers who set out to save lives during the war.
Chris Parry headed out in a white van with friends and took to TikTok and Instagram to show footage of their daring rescues, but he and another volunteer, Andrew Bagshaw, were tragically killed trying to save an elderly woman trapped in her home.
Fremantle will sell outside the UK as the show gets set to launch on the BBC in the coming weeks. The producer-distributor’s international senior acquisitions boss Céire Clark described Hell Jumper as a “remarkable tale of resilience.”
“We’re looking forward to sharing this extraordinary and heart-wrenching story,...
Produced by Clarkson’s Farm maker Expectation and revealed by Deadline last year, Hell Jumper uses first-person footage to follow a group of volunteers who set out to save lives during the war.
Chris Parry headed out in a white van with friends and took to TikTok and Instagram to show footage of their daring rescues, but he and another volunteer, Andrew Bagshaw, were tragically killed trying to save an elderly woman trapped in her home.
Fremantle will sell outside the UK as the show gets set to launch on the BBC in the coming weeks. The producer-distributor’s international senior acquisitions boss Céire Clark described Hell Jumper as a “remarkable tale of resilience.”
“We’re looking forward to sharing this extraordinary and heart-wrenching story,...
- 6/24/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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