Deadline: ‘The Sidemen Story’ Producers Detail Ambitions For Their Indie Pangaea…
EXCLUSIVE: It’s a big week for husband-and-wife production duo Luke Hyamsand Sunita Mirchandani Hyams.
Not only does their debut documentary, The Sidemen Story, launch tomorrow (February 14) on Netflix in the UK, but this interview with Deadline is the first they’ve given since the launch of their indie cross-cultural producer Pangaea.
In a wide-ranging chat that interrupts a break in Jamaica — what they call their “first holiday in quite a few years” — they talk about the gruelling hours of work that went into shooting and producing a doc on British YouTube stars The Sidemen, the state of the UK production sector and a slate that includes Work in Progress, a talk show in which UK TV host, broadcaster and creative Julie Adenuga quizzes major public figures.
Hyams is the former Head of Originals for YouTube EMEA, Director of Global Content for The Walt Disney Company and the creator of influential UK music drama Dubplate Drama, while Mirchandani Hyams is a veteran producer on the likes of Oscar Pistorius: What Really Happened?, The Only Way is Essex and The Great British Menu for major British production companies. In 2020, she co-produced her first feature, Big Boys Don’t Cry, and in the same year decided to create Pangaea after encouragement from her husband to act on ideas she’d been harbouring for years while she worked as a production manager.