Clarity Productions selected to the Good Pitch UK 2009

20 Aug 2009

“After the Apocalypse”, directed by Antony Butts and produced by Sarah Tierney, announced as one of eight projects selected to the Good Pitch UK next month.

The Good Pitch is a partnership between the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, in collaboration with Working Films. The Good Pitch aims to broker partnerships between ground-breaking, social-justice film projects and organisations who can work with them to effect change. Organisations confirmed to attend include: Amnesty International UK, The Co-operative, UNICEF, Wellcome Trust, Channel 4, Sundance Institute, ActionAid, Barnardos, Cafod, Camfed, FilmAid International, War on Want and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust.

"After the Apocalypse" exposes the legacy of the largest, most secretive and most sustained nuclear experiment in history and the thousands of Kazakh families living in the shadow of an unacknowledged atomic war... Originated by Clarity Productions, the projects is filmed/directed by Antony Butts and produced by Sarah Tierney. “After the Apocalypse” was developed through the EURODOC Programme 2006, was awarded the CBA/DFID Programme Development Fund 2006 and was selected to the Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket 2007.

The other seven projects at The Good Pitch are: Lesley Katon (A Very Dangerous Man), Dan Edelstyn (How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire), Hannan Majid & Richard York (Mass e Bhat), Rosa Rogers (Casablanca Calling), Mat Whitecross (Moving to Mars), Morgan Matthews (Seventeen) and Jerry Rothwell (Town of Runners).