British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

1922–Present
Location

England

Alternate names

BBC Independent|BBC Broadcasting House|BBC Studios

Description

BBC Studios comprises two world-renowned business areas: a content studio (which produces, amplifies and distributes IP) and a channels & streaming business. Three quarters of the work for BBC Studios Content Studio now comes from outside the BBC, from partners such as Apple, Amazon, Disney and Netflix, while our Productions business remains a key supplier to the BBC, as well as creating content for other broadcasters. In a nutshell: we’re able to take an idea from thought to screen and beyond, working with a wide range of expertise within our business as well as partnering with major media clients globally, including Amazon, AMC Networks, Apple TV+, Disney+, France Télévisions, Netflix, NHK, Nine Australia, PBS, NBC Universal, Warner Bros Discovery and ZDF.

“About BBC Studios,” accessed March 16, 2024, https://www.bbcstudios.com/about-us/about-bbc-studios/.
Works in catalogue
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    Phantom Pain

    film/video, 1996

    Kristy Nichols is a pre-op transsexual prostitute working the streets of Hollywood. Kristy has doubts about the final, surgical solution to her gender-quest but transexually is among the least of her troubles. Gently comic, the film looks at Kristy's confusing life, downplaying the usual issues of gender identity. When a professor of sexology asks her to star in a film about a transsexual prostitute, Kristy thinks she may have finally found some direction in her life. She's wrong.

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    A Mermaid Called Aida

    film/video, 1996

    A documentary by gay director Riyad Vinci Wadia about the life of India's most famous transsexual Aida Banaji. Using both real and mock interviews and dramatic reconstructions set in the post-colonial, urban culture of Bombay, the film traces the sometimes traumatic progress of the self proclaimed 'Venus with a penis' through family and medical crisis and many surgical interventions to help her become the pure and beautiful other worldly creature of her fantasy - a mermaid.