Grain Media Explained

Grain Media
Type:	Production company
Genre:	Film, TV, Commercials
Foundation:	2006
Location City:	London
Location Country:	United Kingdom
Key People:	Orlando von Einsiedel
Industry:	television, film

Grain Media is a British film, television and commercials production company in South London, established in 2006 by Jon Drever and Orlando von Einsiedel.^[1]

In 2020 the company's short film Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and the BAFTA for Best Short Film. In 2017 the company's short film The White Helmets won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.^[2]

The feature-length documentary Virunga was nominated for Best Documentary at both BAFTA 2015^[3] and the 87th Academy Awards.^[4]

Productions

• Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (2019), short documentary
• Lost and Found (2020), short documentary
• Seahorse (2019), feature-length documentary
• Evelyn (2018), feature-length documentary
• Bruce Lee and the Outlaw (2018), feature-length documentary
• The White Helmets (2016), short documentary ^[5]
• SuperBob (2015), feature film
• Virunga (2014), feature-length documentary
• We Ride (2013), feature-length documentary
• Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul (2010), short documentary
• India’s Forbidden Love (2018), short documentary

Notes and References

1. News: Ritman . Alex . Inside Grain Media: The London Doc House Behind a Growing Haul of Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy Winners . 16 December 2020 . . 7 February 2020.
2. Web site: Oscar Winner. Academy Awards. 31 October 2017.
3. Web site: BAFTA Nominees. BAFTA. 19 January 2015.
4. Web site: Oscar Nominees. Academy Awards. 19 January 2015.
5. News: Ritman . Alex . 'The White Helmets' Director Orlando von Einsiedel on Finding Hope Amid Despair With Nat Geo's 'Lost and Found' . 16 December 2020 . . 19 September 2019.