Get the latest gossip

Joel ‘Kachi’ Benson Tapped To Direct Doc ‘The Harvest’ On Nigeria’s Boko Haram Kidnappings For Hunting Lane, Impact Partners – First Look


Documentary on 'The Harvest,' on the Boko Haram kidnappings of 2014 and the aftermath, has wrapped production. Joel 'Kachi Benson directed.

Most recently, the company produced painter Titus Kaphar’s drama Exhibiting Forgiveness, starring André Holland, Andra Day, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and John Earl Jelks, which world premiered at Sundance 2024. Over the span of 14 years, Impact Partners has been involved in financing over 100 films, including such award-nominated and winning works as Icarus, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Dina, The Eagle Huntress, How to Survive a Plague, The Queen of Versailles, and Hell and Back Again. Upcoming projects include Matthew O. Henderson’s Zulu Club doc A King Like Me, base jumping pic Fly, Paris Barclay’s Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It, and Clay Tweel’s The Bitter Pill, to name just a few.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Deadline

Read more on:

Photo of doc

doc

Photo of Nigeria

Nigeria

Photo of joel ‘kachi benson

joel ‘kachi benson

Related news:

News photo

Circle Women Doc Accelerator Unveils 2024 Cannes Docs Projects (EXCLUSIVE)

News photo

Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: ‘Girls State’ Directors Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss On How Roe V. Wade Reversal Intruded On Exercise In Mock Government

News photo

Fans Recall How Indigo Girls Helped Them Through Sexuality and Sobriety in ‘It’s Only Life After All’ Doc