As part of Swan Films’ commitment to sustainability and in recognition of the climate emergency, we are pledging monthly donations to the following charities aimed at planting trees and protecting forests and woodlands – Woodland Trust,  Trees for Cities and Global Greengrants Fund UK.

While it’s important to remain focussed on the more fundamental measures that businesses and governments must take to combat climate change and the depletion of the natural environment, we feel that supporting these charities is one of the practical measures we can take.

The Curry House Kid, the documentary we made with dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, is in the Guardian’s list of top TV shows of 2019:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/02/50-best-tv-shows-2019

Our documentary The Curry House Kid with the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan won Best Factual Show at the 2019 Asian Media Awards last night in Manchester.

Shaharul Khan (pictured), who was part of the production team, collected the award.

Congratulations to Akram, the contributors and everyone who worked so hard on the film.

The Curry House Kid is still available to view on All4:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-curry-house-kid

Our new series – My Famous Babysitter – begins at 10pm on Monday 21st October on UKTV’s W channel.

The series trailer can be viewed here:

https://youtu.be/MGd6–wKf9o

Akram Khan has been nominated at this year’s Grierson Awards for ‘Presenter of the Year’ for our Channel 4 documentary The Curry House Kid.

Here’s the full list of nominations:

https://griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/the-grierson-awards/nominations/

And The Curry House Kid is still available to view on All4:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-curry-house-kid

Huge congratulations to Akram Khan, who’s been shortlisted at this year’s Grierson Awards for ‘Presenter of the Year’ for our film The Curry House Kid.

Here’s the full shortlist:

https://griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/the-grierson-awards/shortlist/

Our latest documentary, The Curry House Kid, with dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, transmitted to rave reviews across the board.

The five-star review in The Guardian called the film “brave, beautiful…deeply touching”.

The full review can be found here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/29/curry-house-kid-review-five-stars-akram-khan-drunk-white-racists

Meanwhile, iNews called the documentary “stunning” and said:

“When the final dance was staged, it was breathtaking: heavy, beautiful, deeply moving. I was transfixed.”

https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/the-curry-house-kid-channel-4-review-akram-khan-stunning-exploration-british-bangladeshi-history-identity/

The Times gave the film four-stars, and the Evening Standard said: “Khan is an engaging presenter: gentle, open and unafraid to make mistakes when cooking with his interviewees.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/the-curry-house-kid-flock-horror-akram-khan-cooks-up-some-tasty-moves-from-his-curry-house-youth-a4129456.html

Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage has been nominated for a BAFTA at this year’s Television Awards in the Specialist Factual category.

Congratulations to Grayson, and everyone who worked on, and appeared in the show.

Here’s the full shortlist of the BAFTA nominations:

http://www.bafta.org/television/awards/tv-2019

Our new documentary, Me, My Selfie and I with Ryan Gander, transmits on BBC4 at 9pm on Monday 18th March.

Ryan reckons that nothing symbolises the times we live in better than the selfie: the icon of a new kind of self-regard that hardly existed just ten years ago.

But, as he discovers, its roots go back hundreds of years before smartphones, and this uniquely 21st century phenomenon is just the visible tip of a much much bigger iceberg – a radical reinvention of who we are powered by the very latest digital technology. It has not just changed how much we look at ourselves, but also transformed what we see in the screen when we do.

The documentary is directed by Sam Anthony.

Read an interview with Ryan about the programme by clicking here

Our series Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage has been nominated for a Broadcast Award in the Best Specialist Factual category.

Congratulations to Grayson, everyone who worked on the series, and all of our brilliant contributors.

Here’s the full list of nominations:

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/home/broadcast-awards-shortlist-2019-revealed/5134698.article