Overview
- Andrij Parekh confirmed at the Karlovy Vary film festival on Wednesday that he will serve as cinematographer on episode one and will direct two episodes of the Netflix limited series The Retrievals.
- The Retrievals adapts Susan Burton’s Peabody-winning podcast about an alleged case in which a nurse stole fentanyl and replaced it with saline, leaving nearly 100 women to undergo IVF egg retrievals without anesthesia.
- Molly Smith Metzler is the series’ writer‑showrunner and executive producer, and Margo Robbie and Tom Ackerley’s LuckyChap are attached as executive producers with Netflix developing the project.
- Parekh’s dual role as director and director of photography draws on his Emmy-winning work on Succession and his cinematography credits on films such as Half Nelson and Blue Valentine.
- The show is in pre-production and Parekh said production is targeting a September shoot this fall, a development that could bring renewed public and legal scrutiny to the underlying investigative reporting.