While lockdown stopped all kinds of film productions worldwide, plenty of creative types have kept themselves busy making things in their new restricted circumstances. The latest quarantine project to emerge is Homemade – a new Netflix anthology featuring a series of shorts created by celebrated filmmakers across the globe. The films are “personal, moving stories that capture our shared experience of life in quarantine”, filmed using home equipment. Behind the project is Pablo Larraín, working with Lorenzo Mieli and Jaun de Dios Larraín.
Among the filmmakers contributing to the anthology are the likes of Hell Or High Water director David Mackenzie, Capernaum’s Nadine Labaki, Brit icon Gurinder Chadha, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’s Ana Lily Amirpour, A Fantastic Woman’s Sebastián Lelio, The Great Beauty’s Paolo Sorrentino, plus Kristen Stewart and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The rest of the line-up includes Ladj Ly, Rachel Morrison, Pablo Larraín, Rungano Nyoni, Natalia Beristáin, Sebastian Schipper, Naomi Kawase, Khaled Mouzanar, Antonio Campos, and Johnny Ma.
“This project is a beautiful way to send a strong message of unity and resilience throughout the international creative community,” says Mieli. “I want to thank Netflix as well as all our directors for taking this challenge and proving that, even in such a complicated time, we can all try to move forward on exciting and unbeaten paths”. The anthology will be available to stream from 30 June.