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‘Queens’ Team On Expanding The Nature Documentary Space To Show A Kingdom Where Females Rule – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted
National Geographic's Queens isn't your typical nature documentary series, the filmmakers explain.
In all, the crew actually spent about two and a half of those years filming their subjects, including the bonobo chimps of the Congo basin and the jewel bees of Costa Rica. However, the lessons from the project extend far beyond what’s on screen, according to showrunner Chloe Sarash, who joined Berlowitz as well as the series’ director Faith Musembi, on the Contenders panel. Musembi, who is the first Black Kenyan female director of a wildlife film, expanded upon that idea, saying that for herself “ Queens would have, at best, been a pipe dream — something you envision and hope that one day you might be able to do, probably won’t be able to do, because that’s just how inaccessible it was to work in this industry.”
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