Luke started looking around for experts and consultants, and came upon globally renowned glass artist Koen Vanderstukken, who also happened to be a professor at nearly Sheridan College. OK, so how does one actually put on a show like this anyway? And yeah, we were delighted that it’s had the critical and audience success that it has had,” he says. “Even though it is niche, they have such a wide reach that it would still find an audience.
They thought the glass-blowing competition might work for Netflix.
We were a little bit concerned about our ability to sell it, but then simultaneously we’d been actively talking to Netflix, trying to find what the first show is that we could do together.” Here you have something so fragile and so delicate and so beautiful, but then it’s in juxtaposition with the danger of the fire, the sweaty hot shop and in 2000 degree furnace - and we thought that sounds really cool. “We had a group of people - a mixture of development people, interns - and we’re just jamming on a million different art forms and then glassblowing was suggested by one of the interns,” Hornburg says. And we’ve had a lot of success in the game competition space,” says Hornburg, noting that they were looking at a show that would celebrate a different art form.
BLOWN AWAY NETFLIX SERIES
So how did Matt Hornburg, “Blown Away” executive producer and co-CEO of series producer Marblemedia, and Donna Luke, co-executive producer and Marblemedia senior VP of business operations come up with this concept? “We’ve been in business now for 21 years. Much like a glass art version of ‘Project Runway” or “Top Chef,” the drama comes from the time constraints and challenges, and also from the fact that these artists are molding fragile glass and working with temperatures that soar between 16 degrees Fahrenheit. The premise is simple: a group of glass-blowing artists come together in an enormous studio, or hot shop in glass-blowing parlance, and create glass art for specific challenges. The series, produced by Toronto’s Marblemedia, found fans on Netflix during the pandemic. Glass-blowing competition series “ Blown Away” returns to Netflix July 22, with new artists, judges and challenges.
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