PRESS RELEASE

A LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY MAKERS

Documentary series that follows Extraordinary Makers around the world

who are reimagining how we live, work, design, trigger social change and
prepare for the future

Premieres on Channel NewsAsia, Singapore on 07 May, 2022

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Every movement needs its superheroes. They inspire, they lead, they create, they
sacrifice. And we went in search of them.

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Meet A League of Extraordinary Makers who made it, sometimes failed along the way
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too but never stopped making. Because some things just need to be done!
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Radio Trailer - Who is a Maker?

Teaser 1 - Curious world of Makers and the Things They Make 

Teaser 2 - What makes an Extraordinary Maker?

Enter the Makerverse with this 5-part documentary series on the global maker
movement where artists, designers, inventors come together to make almost
anything and hack everything. It begins in the American garage, seeps out of the
periphery onto the streets, studios, labs and factories where Makers are rising to
become the superheroes the world needs today.

Series Trailer - 'The term 'Maker' has taken a whole new meaning in the

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last two years. We can't wait to show you what we mean'

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Filmed in New York, Boston, Singapore, San Francisco, Miami, Barcelona, Hong Kong,
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Mumbai, Goa & Bali, the series explores the changing realities of our times across the
realms of design and manufacturing, art and technology, education and
entrepreneurship, social change and emergent futures. And as the world stands at
the threshold of the 4th Industrial Revolution, let’s get ready for a time when
Everyone is inspired to be a Maker, connected to digital fabrication technologies like
never before, to produce everything we consume.
A League of Extraordinary Makers produced by Storyteller Films is the latest in
the series of international documentaries by the award-winning production house.
This is their sixth collaboration with the Singapore-based CNA.

Telecast Schedule [All times SGT]

A League of Extraordinary Makers premieres on 7th May, as a 5-part weekly series
and will also be available online - cna.asia/vod & youtube.com/cnainsider.

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Ep 1 - Rise of the Makers – 9PM SGT, Saturday, 7th May 2022  
Rise of the Makers traces the birth of the incredible Maker Movement through the

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lives of Extraordinary Makers who continue to build, hack, prototype & shape it, with
the things they Make.
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Ep 2 - Into the Makerverse – 9PM SGT, Saturday, 14th May 2022 
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Into the Makerverse follows Makers as they hack boundaries and blur the lines
between art, science and engineering to design a better world.
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Ep 3 - Makers of Change – 9PM SGT Saturday, 21st May 2022 

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As the world shuts down, Makers turn into Superheroes. When the pandemic brings
supply chains to a grinding halt, makerspaces transform into micro-factories and
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production lines are replaced with 3D printers and CNC millers as Makers become the
workforce the world needs.
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Ep 4 - New Frontiers of the Makerverse – 9PM SGT, Saturday, 28th May

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The Maker Movement enters new frontiers as makerspaces grow in places it has
never been before - our bodies, hospitals and the natural world. This is where
making heals, legacies come alive & humans merge with computers.  

Ep 5 - Age of Makers – 9PM SGT, Saturday, 4th June 2022

Some of the Maker Movement’s most brilliant minds come together to redesign
reality and reimagine a new world - where everyone can be a maker, making what
we need, when and where we need it.
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The series features many of the stalwarts of the Maker Movement such as Dale
Dougherty, Jimmy Diresta, Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang, Prof. Neil Gershenfeld, Anouk
Wipprecht, Sherry Lassiter, Tomas Diez, Cesar Jung-Harada and Makers Asylum.

Dale Dougherty, San Francisco - the man who made Make and turned Making

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Jimmy Diresta, New York - Celebrity YouTuber aka the ‘da Vinci of Making’ and
the archetype of the original American Maker

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Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang, Singapore - hacked the Xbox, collaborated with Edward
Snowden, did a monastic study of the Shenzhen manufacturing eco-system and is
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now developing the most secure communications platform
Professor Neil Gershenfeld, Boston - often called the intellectual father of the
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Maker Movement, he is the Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, a unique lab
that is breaking down boundaries between the digital (bits) and the physical (atoms)
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world to pioneer the next digital revolution through digital fabrication

Anouk Wipprecht, Miami – Dutch Future FashionTech Designer and Maker of
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Robotic Couture embeds tech into what we wear to create designs that can feel our
heartbeats and read our minds
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Cesar Jung-Harada, Hong Kong - an ocean robotist who’s gone from inventing
the world’s first shape-shifting robotic hull to building the next-generation ocean
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Tomas Diez, Barcelona & Bali - Venezuela-born urban planner and futurist,
driving the global Fab City Project that challenges cities and regions to be locally
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productive and globally connected – to produce what they consume

Makers Asylum, Mumbai & Goa – India’s first open community Makerspace that
turned into a micro-factory and used distributed design & manufacturing to make a
million shields in the first 49 days of the lockdown
Dr Gokul Krishnan, San Francisco – Making to heal and help chronically and
terminally ill children find the inventor in themselves
For more information, contact

Mayurica Biswas
Executive Producer & Creative Director
A League of Extraordinary Makers
mayurica@storyteller-films.com
Storyteller Films

Dipti Chadha

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Creative Director

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A League of Extraordinary Makers
dipti@storyteller-films.com
Storyteller Films

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About CNA:

CNA was established in March 1999 by Mediacorp, and is an English language Asian news
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network. Positioned to “Understand Asia”, it reports on global developments with Asian
perspectives. Based in Singapore, it has correspondents in major Asian cities and key Western
ones, including New York, Washington D.C., London and Brussels. CNA is a transmedia
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company, where users can get content online, on TV and radio and via smart devices. It is
also available on social and messaging services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Linkedin,
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and Telegram. CNA TV is now viewed in 29 territories across Asia with its satellite footprint
stretching across Asia, the Middle East and Australia.
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About Storyteller Films, Mumbai, India

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Storyteller Films is an international award-winning production house that specialises in

crafting factual documentaries. We are chroniclers of the past, observers of the present and
decipherers of the future. We often spend months following our subjects to craft a fearless
and engaging narrative. We believe real voices with incredible access are what makes a
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compelling story. We’re proud that our projects with international broadcasters have been
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well received by global audiences. Our films have also been recipients of industry accolades
including New York Festivals, The Telly Awards and Asian Academy Creative Television
Awards. It helps that our core creative and technical team have been part of diverse,
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cross-border documentaries that range from true-crime & terror investigations to mega
engineering, science & military to social issues and emergent futures.

Storyteller Films is led by Mayurica Biswas, an Indian journalist and broadcast television
writer-director-producer, with over two decades in creating factual & non-fiction content. As a
Creative Director in the factual space, Mayurica has written and directed several
documentaries that have been distributed worldwide for AETN, National Geographic, History
TV and others.