2026 Nominees

Hell Jumper

Production Company: Expectation TV

Produced for: BBC

Executive Producer (Production Company): Colin Barr

Executive Producer (network/platform): Carl Callam and Clare Sillery

Country or Territory where first released: United Kingdom

Synopsis:

At the heart of the film is 28-year-old Chris Parry from Cornwall, who decided to jump into a van and head into Ukraine. There he hooked up with a bunch of civilian ‘evacuators’ from all over the world – so-called “Hell Jumpers” - crowdfunding vehicles to help people escape their homes deep in the danger zone.
Chris and friends would upload footage of their daring rescue missions or near misses to social media, as a way of raising money to fund their operations. But he also fell instantly in love with a young Ukrainian, Olya. Their burgeoning love story runs in parallel to the story of the teams of ‘evacuators’ that Chris joins, helping the old and the vulnerable escape from the most dangerous areas in the country.
Hell Jumper is a dynamic, but intimate film, giving us a uniquely modern perspective of war. At times uplifting, at others heart-wrenching, it’s a vivid portrait of an extraordinary group of civilian volunteers risking their lives to save strangers in their hour of need.