EXCLUSIVE: Ben Zand is fronting a monthly YouTube series focusing on “one extraordinary person or collective” per episode.
Human will explore topics including gang-afflicted neighbourhoods in Chicago, exclusive jail access in Colorado, the Israel-Gaza conflict, remote communities in Central Africa and white-only towns in South Africa.
Episodes will launch monthly on YouTube from September. Zand’s indie Zandland has fully financed the show, a decision that the indie said shows Zandland wants to “bypass traditional gatekeepers, and deliver the kind of documentaries it believes the world needs right now, directly to its audience.”
Filmmaker-producer Zand’s past credits include the BAFTA-nominated Kingpin Cribs and The Cult of Conspiracy: QAnon.
Zand said Human “is a series you’d never see on TV.” “Human is a significant milestone in Zandland’s story. With this series, we are giving audiences raw, unfiltered access to communities and conversations they’d never normally see – not to sensationalize, but to humanize in an increasingly divided global society,” he added.
Zand is appearing this morning on stage in the opening debate at the Edinburgh TV Festival, which kicked off yesterday.
