Georgie Yukiko Donovan

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Heart of Invictus (2023) Director - 2nd Unit
Heart of Invictus (2023)
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel

Distributor: Netflix

Production Company: Violet Films + Grain Media

Genre: Documentary-style, Factual, Military, Sport

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeJuxMYhmEc
The Negotiators (2023) Director | Edit Producer
Netflix Documentary Talent Fund (2024) Producer
Netflix has announced the five filmmaking teams who will receive funding and professional support to make a short documentary on the theme of “Connection,” as part of the second year of the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund. Following a rigorous application process and thousands of applications, a shortlist of twelve filmmaking teams were invited to Netflix’s UK HQ to pitch in front of a panel of industry experts. Each team will now be empowered to produce a short documentary between 8-12 minutes long with a budget of £30,000 that will be released on Netflix’s YouTube channel in the New Year. As part of the process they will now undergo bootcamp training from specialists at Netflix who will coach and host workshops covering all aspects of production including legal, creative, HR, production and finance. The fund to date has championed filmmakers from across the whole of the UK and Ireland, with Netflix supporting talent from Wicklow to Hackney and the Midlands to Bristol this year. The Netflix Documentary Talent Fund was created to break down barriers of access for filmmakers.
Netflix Documentary Talent Fund (2024)
Director: N/A
Netflix has announced the five filmmaking teams who will receive funding and professional support to make a short documentary on the theme of “Connection,” as part of the second year of the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund. Following a rigorous application process and thousands of applications, a shortlist of twelve filmmaking teams were invited to Netflix’s UK HQ to pitch in front of a panel of industry experts. Each team will now be empowered to produce a short documentary between 8-12 minutes long with a budget of £30,000 that will be released on Netflix’s YouTube channel in the New Year. As part of the process they will now undergo bootcamp training from specialists at Netflix who will coach and host workshops covering all aspects of production including legal, creative, HR, production and finance. The fund to date has championed filmmakers from across the whole of the UK and Ireland, with Netflix supporting talent from Wicklow to Hackney and the Midlands to Bristol this year. The Netflix Documentary Talent Fund was created to break down barriers of access for filmmakers.

Distributor: Netflix

Production Company: WDW Entertainment

Genre: Documentary-style

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLs9aWCCF6Oy4H2oqNIUL57tikaGISHa8p&v=WSdx4CvuTpk
AMA (2019) Director | Producer
Filmmaker Georgie Yukiko Donovan explores the story of the Ama divers - the last of Japan's 'women of the sea' and their fight to preserve their 3,000 year old way of life.
Deciphering South Korea (2021) Director | Producer
South Korean pop culture has grown to become a major driver of global culture, along with its blockbuster dramas and skincare products. Yet, how much do we really know about the country, its people, their passions, and their peeves? Journalist Joi Lee visits her motherland to understand what it takes to keep this country pulsating as it gains global adoration in recent years. She explores what is driving this success and the price South Koreans are paying for it.
Deciphering Japan (2020) Director
Journalist Yumi Araki explores her home country as it enters an era of great social and political transformation. She explores the hot-button issues that have both galvanised and polarised the nation, and meets the people at the forefront of change. In the first episode, Yumi meets the women who are re-defining their roles in Japan's patriarchal society, and the men forced to re-orientate themselves in this new social order. In episode two, Yumi dives into the country's extreme work culture, visiting obsessive farmers, overworked salarymen and the therapists trying to keep them sane. Next, Yumi visits hip hop dancing grannies and other members of the nation's sunset generation to find out how this fast-ageing country is coping with unprecedented demographic change. In the final episode, Yumi hangs out with bartending Buddhist monks, psychedelic pop artists, and shunned biracial communities to explore a national identity in flux and to decipher what it means to be Japanese today.
Contact Tracers (2021) Edit Producer
Singapore’s contact tracers give us unprecedented access to their modus operandi as they recount some of their biggest cases in the race to contain the spread of COVID-19. Contact tracers leap into action when the first COVID-19 case arrives from China. They have just 24 hours to track down everyone he has come in contact with on one of the most densely populated islands in the world to prevent the disease from spreading out of control. Weeks later contact tracers are confounded by a growing cluster of infections at two churches that have no known links to China. The team scramble to uncover the source using state of the art technology and good old-fashioned detective skills. But then contact tracers are confronted by a sudden surge of infections in Singapore. With worrying reports of mutations and of people spreading the virus without ever showing symptoms, the only solution to curbing the pandemic may lie in tracing the virus back to its source – the animal kingdom.
Contact Tracers (2021)
Director: Indra Nienhaus
Singapore’s contact tracers give us unprecedented access to their modus operandi as they recount some of their biggest cases in the race to contain the spread of COVID-19. Contact tracers leap into action when the first COVID-19 case arrives from China. They have just 24 hours to track down everyone he has come in contact with on one of the most densely populated islands in the world to prevent the disease from spreading out of control. Weeks later contact tracers are confounded by a growing cluster of infections at two churches that have no known links to China. The team scramble to uncover the source using state of the art technology and good old-fashioned detective skills. But then contact tracers are confronted by a sudden surge of infections in Singapore. With worrying reports of mutations and of people spreading the virus without ever showing symptoms, the only solution to curbing the pandemic may lie in tracing the virus back to its source – the animal kingdom.

Distributor: CNA

Production Company: Peddling Pictures

Awards: New York Festivals TV & Film Awards (2022)

Genre: Documentary-style

Link: https://vimeo.com/560008671
Monty Don's Japanese Gardens (2019) Edit Producer
Monty Don explores different aspects of Japanese gardens.
Ryan Gander - The Idea of Japan (2017) Producer
Artist Ryan Gander explores Japanese visual culture through symbols including the Geisha, Samurai and cherry blossom to find what they tell about their past, present and future.
GT Academy (Japan) (2016) Director | Producer
A television programme run by Nissan and Sony Interactive Entertainment, which provided an alternative route into real-life motorsport. GT Academy provided Gran Turismo gamers the chance to go from virtual to reality, from their PlayStation to a real-life professional racing career with Nissan.
GT Academy (Japan) (2016)
Director: Georgie Yukiko Donovan
A television programme run by Nissan and Sony Interactive Entertainment, which provided an alternative route into real-life motorsport. GT Academy provided Gran Turismo gamers the chance to go from virtual to reality, from their PlayStation to a real-life professional racing career with Nissan.

Distributor: Hulu

Production Company: Mach2Media

Genre: Factual, Reality

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFenQjyf8VI