Documentary Film Production for Broadcast & Streamers
At Banyak Films we've made one offs and returnable series for broadcasters and platforms. A lot of a films get distribution deals in different countries, some are co-productions and get re-sold, some are commissions. We work with BBC, Channel 4, NBC, Netflix, Disney+.
- TRACES OF CHINA (6x 30mins) Tradition, trade and culture have connected China and Europe for hundreds of years. We journey with Amelia Hemphill and ...
- WITH GRACE - BBC MY LIFE Grace is a playful girl from rural Kenya who loves coming up with ideas to make her eight siblings laugh. She dreams of ...
- FIRE BENEATH HER A new fire season crackles to life in Kalimantan as 29-year-old Emmanuela Shinta monitors the air quality and distribute...
- LYRICAL BALLADS Two films retracing the steps of poets Coleridge and Wordsworth through the Quantock Hills in Somerset, exploring the la...
- CREATING IN CONFLICT The Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation (AACCF), in collaboration with ELIA, the European League of Insti...
- ART ON THE STREETS Art on the Streets explores art’s role in providing a voice, a platform and a meeting point in the midst of conflict, ...
- TIME TRAVEL IN BRITAIN'S LOST RAINFORESTS Regenerative forester John Williamson earns his living in the ancient woodlands of the UK’s Teign Valley. As he coppic...
- LAST MAN STANDING Coming Soon......
- BREAKING THE CIRCLE British-Assamese filmmaker Leona Chaliha travels back to northeast India to take the temperature of what it's like growi...
- REFUGEES GOT TALENT Four Syrian friends put on a TV-style talent show to lift spirits at the refugee camp where they are stranded. Mahmoud h...
- INDIA'S WUSHU WARRIOR A Muslim schoolgirl fights prejudice and patriarchy with every punch....
- BEADS ON ONE STRING Inspired by the life of Meher Baba, an indian mystic who likened the world religions to being like 'beads on one string'...
- BROKEN COVENANT The UK’s ‘duty of care’ to its armed forces, known as the military covenant, is a longstanding pact ensuring suppo...
- THE DANCER THIEVES Through dance, Aguibou aims to give the prisoners something that is in short supply in their overcrowded cells: hope. ...
- BREAD OR LIFE: My Iranian Corona Diary ...
- THE RUNNERS Winner of 'Short of the Week' and 'Short of the Year'...
- JAMES RAVILIOUS Alan Bennett narrates James Ravilious: A World In Photographs, a film about one of the great unknowns of British photogr...
- US NOW In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is staring intently into his computer screen. He is picking the team for Eb...
- URBAN OIL MEN In the US alone, 150 million gallons of diesel are burned every day, resulting in tonnes of carbon dioxide and black car...
- GREEN GOODBYES Death is a messy business. In America alone, 1.6 million tonnes of cement and over 870,000 gallons of embalming fluid - ...
- PANGOLIN RANGERS A shy, secretive, reptile-like mammal that lives in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains is under threat. Hunted for its scal...
- BAD HABITS We find out how mindfulness is being used to treat a wide range of addictions....
- EBOLA IN LIBERIA Before the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, the country had a total of 50 doctors for its population of 4.3 mi...
- CALAIS JUNGLE CLINIC ...
- BORDER PROSTHETICS Decades of ethnic conflict have left south eastern Myanmar one of the most landmine-ridden regions in the world. Few lan...
- FLOATING HOSPITAL An estimated 16 million people in Bangladesh have a disability and most of them live in rural areas and cannot reach mod...
- VR THERAPY One in four people worldwide will suffer from a mental health problem at some point in their lives. Yet the treatments, ...
- GIVE US BACK OUR DATA With services like email and social media, Amazon and Apple Pay, health, diet and even sleep-tracking, technology is pus...
- STEAL FROM THE CAPITALISTS Twitter co-creator, Even Henshaw returns to activism but his fellow hackers question the values he brings from Silicon V...
- THE CITIZENS NETWORK After the Edward Snowden revelations, President Evo Morales said the United States was conducting electronic surveillanc...
- Europe's Forbidden Colony, PART 1: THE COLONISED SOCIETY The film shows how Europe's colonialism is experienced by the minority ethnic population, who disproportionately feel th...
- Europe's Forbidden Colony, PART 2: THE BUSINESS OF COLONISATION Unemployment, debt and an influx of refugees are often pointed to as the causes of a European identity crisis. But, Horv...
- THE NEW SILK ROAD (2x 60mins) On September the 7th 2013, President Xi Jinpin made one of the most significant speeches in China’s recent history whe...