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Exclusive: Nick Hamm, director of movies Driven and The Journey and new Netflix series White Lines, is launching London- and L.A.-based entertainment company Free Turn.

Hamm is teaming with ex-wpp agency executive Jon Hamm on the firm which will be a hybrid film and TV production outfit and creative advertising agency. The brothers previously co-founded Greenroom Digital which they sold to Ipg in 2009.

Also aboard at Free Turn are Firecracker Films co-founder Jeremy Groman, who will take the role of Chief Creative Officer, and former Wpp agency growth director Gemma Batterby, who will run the business as Managing Director.

Hamm is currently in pre-production on Free Turn’s first movie. Factual will be under the guidance of Groman, whose recent projects include ESPN’s World’s Fastest Gamer. The company says it has already inked deals with Svod and Ott services “to exclusively create brand-funded entertainment for their...

Earlier this week, the annual Sheffield Doc/Fest hosted several rounds of evocative discussion panels in addition to screening groundbreaking new documentaries from around the world.

The “New Genderation – Has Factual Kept Up With the Revolution in Gender and Sexuality?” and “Does It Matter Who Funds My Film?” discussions were two of many charged commentaries of the state of the documentary art form, and IndieWire is pleased to present some highlights from both panels.

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The “New Genderation Panel,” lead by Theresa Heath, explored the diverse range of stories about the Lbgtq experience that has received mixed reactions.

The co-writer and protagonist of the film “Kiki,” Twiggy Pucci Garcon, spoke to the fact that, “There’s a huge absence of representation, particularly in the states of factual and or documentary projects and programs around queer people of color.