Toronto: Netflix Picks Up Lucy Walker’s ‘Mountain Queen’ Doc

Etan Vlessing
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Netflix has nabbed the worldwide rights to Lucy Walker’s documentary Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa after presenting a work-in-progress screening at the Toronto Film Festival.

“It’s actually a fairy tale. You work for decades, and sometimes you have decades you’re doing everything wrong or nearly right, and then they don’t and then you have moments where you say I’m so glad I kept going because once in a while it doesn’t go wrong,” Walker said of premiering the doc at TIFF during a Visionaries session sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter.

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“Netflix is particularly good as it’s so global, it’s even in Nepal,” Walked added. A 2024 streaming release is planned for the documentary about Lhakpa Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to completely summit and survive Mount Everest.  She climbed Mount Everest while bringing up two teenage daughters and recovering from an abusive marriage.

Mountain Queen is produced by Charlie Corwin, Michael D. Ratner, Miranda Sherman, Dalia Burde and Christopher Newman. SK Global Entertainment, OBB Pictures, Avocados and Coconuts produced the film, whose cast includes Lhakpa Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, Sunny Dijmarescu and Shiny Dijmarescu.

On Monday, Netflix also picked up Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, for around $11 million after a world premiere at the fest. The streamer nabbed the U.S. and remaining international rights to the true-life thriller, which was first pitched a year ago at TIFF by Kendrick and AGC Studio’s CEO Stuart Ford, who are producing and fully financing the film.

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