Netflix has straight-up acquired the global rights outside Australia to the Cate Blanchett-led and produced refugee drama series “Stateless”.
The series follows four people caught up in an immigration system that severely impacts their lives, with each character confronting issues around protection and border control in a different way.
The four characters include – a flight attendant on the run from a cult, an Afghan refugee seeking a new life with his wife and two children, a young father of three struggling to make ends meet, and an ambitious bureaucrat caught between professional ambitions and a national scandal.
All four lives intersect at an immigration detention in the middle of the desert. Blanchett, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic West, Jai Courtney, Asher Keddie, Fayssal Bazzi and Soraya Heidari co-star.
The immigration and refugee crisis has been an ongoing issue in many countries with Australia having a famously terrible track record regarding its handling of refugees hoping to enter the country.
The six-part series, made by public broadcaster ABC, will air locally on March 1st ahead of Netflix releasing it everywhere else later this year. Blanchett executive produces the series, alongside Tony Ayres, Andrew Upton, Sheila Jayadev and Elise McCredie.
McCredie and Belinda Chayko penned the series while Emma Freeman and Jocelyn Moorhouse direct. The project will have its world premiere in Berlin this week.
Source: Variety
