Lost City of Gold, telling the story of a mysterious southern African ghost city, is now in production by Blink Films for the WNET Group and ARTE, with the doc represented internationally by PBS Distribution.
The team at Blink received exclusive access to the archaeologists excavating the buried ruins of Great Zimbabwe. The largest precolonial man-made structure in southern Africa was, at one time, home to up to 20,000 people and gold and treasures from across the world. Zimbabwean archaeologist Professor Shadreck Chirikure of Oxford University is leading the excavation.
Dan Chambers, creative director at Blink Films, said: “Lost City of Gold is a revelation-packed film with exclusive access to the African-led team as they uncover gold and other hidden treasures, and forensic analysis from world-renowned experts, which reveals a whole new understanding of a forgotten pre-colonial superpower – and how colonialism wiped it from history.”
Blink Films is a Tin Roof Media company.
