CreativeChaos To Adapt Polish Activist Klementyna Suchanow’s Book ‘This Is War: Women, Fundamentalists And The New Middle Ages’

EXCLUSIVE: Social modification doc maker CreativeChaos has actually obtained rights to activist and author Klementyna Suchanow‘s non-fiction non-fiction book This is War: Women, Fundamentalists and the New Middle Ages

New York-based CreativeChaos will want to turn Suchanow’s story into a four-part doc series. Suchanow will executive produce along with the production business’s co-founders Tom Donahue and Ilan Arboleda, and task co-creator Jan Swietlik. Suchanow will compose the script.

The untitled job will follow Suchanow’s change from author to activist in a trial for actions versus Poland’s ultra-conservative federal government. She and 2 other Polish ladies were apprehended for supposedly arranging demonstrations versus brand-new anti-abortion laws throughout the Covid-19 crisis.

Throughout this duration, Suchanow– a co-founder of the grassroots females’s rights motion All-Poland Women’s Strike– started dealing with a global network of investigative press reporters and activists to expose a fundamentalist international efforts to ruin human rights and turn democracies into authoritarian routines.

Throughout an eight-year objective she has actually inspected a network of traditionalist-conservative companies throughout Europe, Latin America, Africa and the U.S. Her series will connect these groups to Kremlin representatives and the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, which were connected to disturbance in the 2016 U.S. election.

“As the world waits for the elections in 2024, the dangers postured by the Kremlin needs to be made transparent in order for western democracy to be maintained,” stated Donahue. “Klementyna’s predicament is an immediate tip that democracy is vulnerable and isn’t ensured,” included Arboleda.

“I am grateful I have actually discovered brave partners for making my examination into a film to raise awareness about the geopolitical risk concealing behind the anti-abortion and anti-LGBT attacks,” included Suchanow.

For CreativeChaos, the series will be the most recent in a line of socially-impactful docs such as Casting By for HBO, This Changes Everything for Starz and Thank You For Your Service for Hulu. Approaching tasks consist of Paramount+ series Mafia Spieswhich follows on from another for that banner, The Murder of God’s Banker; The Great Dividewhich premiered at the Aspen and Denver Film Festivals; and a Canadian adjustment of This Changes Everything with Geena Davis. Other docs have actually consisted of Dean Martin biog King of Cool with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Danny Strong; cautionary movieBleed Outfor HBO Max; and music documentaryLos Tigre del Norte at Folsom Prisonfor Netflix. Donahue and Arboleda introduced the production home in 2010.