101 Studios, Grain Media & the Miami Herald will collaborate on a documentary about Surfside’s horrific collapse of Champlain Towers South, a condo building, in Surfside. It killed 98 people in 2021.
The film, about one of the deadliest building failures in modern history, will be based on the Herald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting. “Surviving Surfside”It will include interviews with survivors, first-responders and relatives of victims as well as journalists and engineers who are examining the incident. It will expose “the turbulent history of Miami”Examine the possible suspects in the collapse of the condo on the beachfront, 12 stories high. TThe investigation reveals that “this crisis might have been averted,”Exposing “profound truths about how profit so easily trumps human life,”According to a press release.
“As a newsroom, we poured our hearts into the breaking news and the ongoing daily coverage, and subsequent investigative coverage, of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse story,”Monica Richardson, Executive Editor of Miami Herald “It was our story to tell because the people and the families in Surfside who were impacted by this unthinkable tragedy are a part of our community.”
The second project is the Doc. “Surfside,”A documentary series of three parts about the collapse is currently in development by Stephanie Soechtig, former director “E! News” host Jason Kennedy.
David Hutkin, Chief Operating Officer of 101 Studios, which produces “Yellowstone” “Mayor of Kingstown,” “Surviving Surfside”Is a story “obviously about an unthinkable tragedy, but it is also one that is a testament to the power of the human spirit and the importance of tenacious journalism fighting for the truth. We are so proud to be partnering with the Herald and Grain Media to bring this high-stakes mystery to audiences in a way that has never been seen before.”