EXCLUSIVE: NCS will debut The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door from BAFTA-winning filmmaker Dan Vernon on Sunday, July 12 at 8pm ET/PT. The NCS Films doc will launch on the NCS app the next day, and you’ll watch a trailer above.
The doc is an account of the 2018 Novichok nerve agent assault that reworked a quiet English metropolis into the epicenter of a geopolitical disaster. The incident noticed former Russian navy officer and British intelligence providers double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia poisoned in Salisbury, England. The British authorities accused Russia of orchestrating the tried assassination.
The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door comes from Passion Pictures and was made for NCS Films in affiliation with Propagate Content and West Buttermilk. It items collectively the chain of occasions via first-hand testimony from senior intelligence officers, counterterrorism leaders, journalists and victims whose lives had been perpetually modified.
Also included are interviews with former UK Prime Minister Theresa May, former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, former MI6 chiefs Richard Dearlove and John Sawers, former National Security Adviser Mark Sedwill, former Head of Counter Terrorism Policing Neil Basu and an unique interview with Charlie Rowley, the associate of sufferer Dawn Sturgess, who died because of the poisoning. It additionally options unique scenes with investigative journalist Christo Grozev, who was behind the Academy Award-winning NCS movie Navalny.
Director Dan Vernon mentioned: “While the film tells the dramatic story of the assassination attempt and the investigation, it is ultimately about people, from the two men whose intertwined fates reveal a Russia wrestling with its past and future, to the residents of Salisbury, a cathedral city unexpectedly thrust onto the global stage. What fascinated me most was how an event that unfolded in a small corner of the UK became an international crisis, exposing fault lines that continue to impact our world”
“At its heart, this is a story about how a small community found itself at the center of an international crisis, capturing both the human impact felt on the streets of Salisbury and the global consequences that followed,” mentioned Amy Entelis, government vp of expertise, NCS Originals and artistic improvement for NCS Worldwide.
Hamish Fergusson, government producer for Passion mentioned the “unprecedented access and direct testimony from those at the heart of the response” sheds “new light on a pivotal moment that foreshadowed the geopolitical tensions shaping our world today.”
“What makes this story so extraordinary is the collision of worlds — a Kremlin assassination plot playing out on the streets of an ordinary English town, with consequences that reached from a suburban doorstep to the highest levels of government,” added Howard T. Owen, Co-CEO of Propagate Content.
Vernon is the director of the movie, which was developed by and is produced by Alex Brisland. Executive producers are Kari Lia, Fergusson, David Moulton and Andrew Ruhemann for Passion; Amy Entelis and Roxanna Sherwood for NCS Films; Ben Silverman and Owens for Propagate Content; and James Packer for West Buttermilk.
The doc made its world premiere on the CPH:DOX Documentary Film Festival in Copenhagen and could have its North American premiere on the DC/DOX Film Festival and its UK premiere at Sheffield DocFest, which begins as we speak.
It marks the fourth collaboration between Passion and NCS Films, coming after Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story from 2024, Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story from 2021, and the Emmy- nominated Legion of Brothers from 2017. NCS Films and Propagate just lately partnered on I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, which premiered earlier this yr and is accessible to stream now on NCS and HBO Max.