Keshet International has scored a pair of high profile deals on its true crime documentary series, My Name is Reeva: I Was Murdered by Oscar Pistorius.
Directed by Warren Batchelor (204: Getting Away With Murder), the three-part docu series tells the intimate story of Reeva Steenkamp who was allegedly murdered by her then-boyfriend Oscar Pistorius on Valentines Day in 2013.
My Name is Reeva has been sold by Keshet International to Channel 4 in the U.K. and SBS in Australia. Channel 4 has licensed the linear and SVOD rights for its streaming service All 4, while SBS has picked up broadcast and streaming rights and will premiere it on April 17. Discussions are ongoing with other potential broadcast partners.
The titles launch marks the 10th anniversary of Reeva Steenkamps death and Oscar Pistorius return to court to request early parole.
My Name is Reeva is a sensitively told three-part series produced by an international team of talented creatives, said Kelly Wright, Keshet Internationals managing director of distribution. We are pleased to have enabled this important docuseries to find a home withChannel 4 in the U.K. and SBS in Australia, where Im sure audiences will be as moved as I was to see the impact of the victim-offender dialogue on Reevas ageing parents and their on-going quest for justice, Wright continued.
Pistorius returned to South African courts on March 31 to request early parole, having completed the required restorative justice victim offender dialogue with Reevas father Barry Steenkamp. Pistoriuss request was denied. To this day, he maintains he mistook his girlfriend Reeva for an intruder on Valentines Day 2013 when he shot her four times.
My Name is Reeva: I Was Murdered by Oscar Pistorius was produced by WB Productions in partnership with Cactus Tree Entertainment, Bloodrose Productions, and Australias Global City Group. The docu has been endorsed by Reevas parents and depicts her life through intimate interviews with her friends and family.
Produced by David Taylor, My Name is Reeva: I Was Murdered by Oscar Pistorius was penned by Justin Strydom (High Rollers).
My Name is Reeva: I Was Murdered by Oscar Pistorius is the latest addition to Keshet Internationals true crime slate of documentaries, which also include Woodcut Medias Worlds Most Evil Killers and Flicker Productions Prison Girls: Life Inside.