Paradise City, the production company run by Emilie Georges and Naima Abed, is set to make an animated documentary about the life of Fredy Hirsch, the German Jewish and gay prisoner who led children’s programming in Terezin and Auschwitz. BIFA-nominee Tom C J Brown (“Christopher at Sea”) will direct the feature.
Paradise City, which is based in London and Paris, will produce “The Fredy Hirsch Story” (working title), alongside “Nomadland”‘s Oscar-winning producer Peter Spears through his company Cor Cordium, and Emmy-nominee Maor Azran (“Buried”).
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