Silverback Films in Realscreen’s Top 100 list

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We’re proud to share that Silverback Films has made the ‘Top 100 Global Production Companies’ in Realscreen magazine, the leading trade magazine in the US covering non-fiction TV.
The list is crafted through editorial research and from nominations submitted from hundreds of members of the international non-fiction and unscripted content community. Realscreen aims to shine a spotlight on the companies they feel are moving the needle — and the industry — in the right direction.
“A name synonymous with landmark natural history content, Silverback continued to set the standard for the genre in 2023 with big projects for Netflix and the BBC.”
Silverback Films featured on the ‘Top 10 Factual list’, here’s what Realscreen had to say:

One of the UK’s most renowned natural history shops, Silverback Films brought another of the event series it’s known for to audiences in 2023 with Our Planet II for Netflix. The sequel to the streaming behemoth’s first foray into the genre, once again narrated by Sir David Attenborough, garnered more raves for the franchise, with The Guardian calling it “astonishing.”

Teaming with Amblin Entertainment, Silverback also rolled out Life on Our Planet, an eight-episode series narrated by Morgan Freeman which combined photorealistic CGI with real footage for an overview of the Earth’s evolution. Coming up: two multi-episode series for the BBC, and Billy and Molly, a heart-tugging doc for Disney+/Hulu/Nat Geo that follows the friendship between a salt-of-the-earth philosopher and a female otter.

Growth and gain: 

“Looking at our output in 2023, we are proud of the fact that it’s such a diverse range of shows within the natural history genre — finally getting a beautiful landmark series all filmed in the UK [Wild Isles for the BBC] on our screens was a long-awaited wish,” says Jane Hamlin, Silverback Films’ COO and director of production. “Our two productions on Netflix this year alone show the diverse range of skills we now have within the company, gaining a huge knowledge of VFX in the production of Life on Our Planet.”