Photography Mel Bless, styling Sasha KellyFilm & TVNewsNetflix’s lockdown film series features Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kristen StewartPaolo Sorrentino, Gurinder Chadha, and more will also direct short films for the collection envisioned by Pablo LarraínShareLink copied ✔️June 23, 2020Film & TVNewsTextThom Waite The world is still in various stages of lockdown due to coronavirus, leaving many people with a lot of spare time to work on that project they’ve been meaning to get around to… or just watch Netflix. If you’ve been spending your time doing the latter then you’re in luck: the streaming giant has announced a new collection of short films, filmed entirely during the pandemic and appropriately titled Homemade. The project, brought together by Pablo Larraín – director of Ema and Spencer, the upcoming film based on the breakdown of Princess Diana’s marriage – brings together a host of impressive names, too. For one, Kristen Stewart (the star of Larraín’s aforementioned Princess Diana film, incidentally) will reveal a new short film as part of the collection, having previously directed the 2017 short Come Swim. Maggie Gyllenhaal is also among the directors involved in the lockdown project, along with Paolo Sorrentino, Black Panther cinematographer Rachel Morrison, and Blinded By The Light director Gurinder Chadha. All of the short films have been made under coronavirus restrictions, utilising household objects and a DIY approach. The collection will debut on Netflix June 30, with each film available separately or as a continuous piece. A donation in honour of the filmmakers will also be made via Netflix’s Hardship Fund, to benefit non-profits aiding cast and crew out of work during the crisis. Watch a trailer for Homemade below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREThe Voice of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian drama moving audiences to tearsMeet the 2025 winners of the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards InstagramHow do you stand out online? We asked two Instagram Rings judgesOobah Butler’s guide to getting rich quickRed Scare revisited: 5 radical films that Hollywood tried to banPlainclothes is a tough but tender psychosexual thrillerCillian Murphy and Little Simz on their ‘provoking’ new film, Steve‘It’s like a drug, the adrenaline’: Julia Fox’s 6 favourite horror filmsHow Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the marginsPaul Thomas Anderson on writing, The PCC and One Battle After AnotherWayward, a Twin Peaks-y new thriller about the ‘troubled teen’ industry