BossaNova takes off with new production, seals Getty Images partnership
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Joseph O'Halloran
| 30 June 2023
Content creation, funding and distribution company BossaNova Media has announced the launch of its latest Original series, The Flight Attendant Murders and has revealed that Getty Images will be its first sponsorship partner to help deliver new plans.
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The Flight Attendant Murders is a 4 x 60’ documentary series produced by UK based indie Flicker Productions which explores the murders of four flight attendants in the 1970s and 1980s in Texas. All four women worked for the same airline and their murders bear striking similarities. While one man, Jon Reed, is in prison, found guilty of the first murder, three of the other murders took place while he was in prison. Over four episodes the series unpicks the story, reassessing the evidence available and tracing the timeline of each case to ask if the cases are individual crimes or could potentially tie together.

The show explores what it is like for the victim’s families to exist in limbo for decades and asks whether present day DNA techniques and modern policing can finally provide a definitive answer as to what really happened to each of the women.

The show is executive produced for Flicker Productions by Colleen Flynn and Charlotte Nicholls and Paul Heaney for BossaNova Media. Director of photography is Duncan Stingemore and series producer is Karen Hoy. The series is also produced and directed by Jasleen Kaur Sethi.

The pitch for The Flight Attendant Murders was one of the winning offerings in terms of buyer feedback at BossaNova’s Development Day in January 2022. BossaNova says it will now split future Development Days into separate strands to accommodate both live and virtual events to better serve domestic and international buyer’s needs. The first of these new live events will be held in Central London on 12 October 2023 where Getty Images will partner with BossaNova for the first time, sponsoring the event and selecting projects that have clear potential to be archive led.

“With an unparalleled archive and deep expertise in how archival content can support producers in making compelling, cost-efficient programming, we are well positioned for creative partnership - from the idea stage through to production,” said Simon Wood, senior sales director at Getty Images. “Having supplied a range of content to various Bossanova Originals over the past few years, we are excited to take a more creative, developmental role in helping generate the next raft of Bossanova Originals as part of its Development Days initiative.”

Claire Runham, who recently joined BossaNova as its new head of acquisitions, added: ‘The Flight Attendant Murders’ is another excellent example of our precise curating on what buyers tell us they want to be pitched and then using this data to get these shows into production. The new Development Days are evolving each time and we hope to provide buyers on their way to MipCom with the perfect pitch.”