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TVF International announces CEE deals
TVF International, the London-based factual distributor, has shopped its latest slate to a variety of broadcasters throughout CEE off the back of NATPE Budapest this summer, ahead of MIPCOM slate releases later this month.
Poland’s Planete+ picked up The League of Exotique Dancers, which opened this year’s HotDocs festival and was also screened at Sheffield Doc Fest, Korea From Above, Sky Arts’ The Erotic Adventures of Anais Nin, Ultimate Freedive: The Great Barrier Reef which explores the world’s largest coral reef and brings viewers up close and personal with its creatures, PBS’s latest installment in the series Journey to Planet Earth narrated by Matt Damon, Dispatches from the Gulf, and Attenborough’s Wild City: Singapore. Also in Poland, Discovery bought a bouquet of arts titles including War Art with Eddie Redmayne, Rene Magritte: The Man in the Hat and In Search of Frida Kahlo from the ITV Perspectives series. They also took My Millennial Life, the CBC commission following four twenty-somethings as they navigate the highs and lows of life as a member of Generation Y. In Hungary, National Geographic Channel bought a package of war titles including Enemy of the Reich, PBS’s gripping one-off following the first female radio operator to be sent from Britain into occupied France to aid the French Resistance. They also picked up Channel 4’s War Horse: The Real Story, TVNZ’s Nancy Wake: Gestapo’s Most Wanted and HISTORY’s The Real Inglorious Bastards, which uses vivid first-person accounts and dramatic reconstructions to tell the true story behind Quentin Tarantino’s blockbuster film. In the Czech Republic, FTV Prima acquired 14 Minutes from Earth, following Google exec Alan Eustace’s record-breaking mission to freefall jump from the stratosphere, Wild Gibraltar, which documents the unique flora and fauna found at the intersection of Africa and Europe in stunning 4K, The Whale Whisperer, which brings viewers up close and personal with Australia’s humpback whales, and HISTORY commission WWII: China’s Forgotten War, among others. On the pubcaster front, Yerevan’s ARMTV picked up a 50 hour package that included Moon Shots, chronicling NASA’s iconic Moon Missions, Kissinger, the final and most wide-ranging interview granted by the former U.S. Secretary of State, Vivaldi: Mystery of the Four Seasons which traces the rise and fall of one of the most popular pieces of classical music of all time, and Winston Churchill: Blood, Sweat and Oils exploring the late PM’s hidden passion for painting and its link to his politics. LRT in Vilnius bought Columbanus: The Monk Who United Europe, exploring the life and legacy of Europe’s first diplomat, The Science of Sleep, the CBC commission investigating the link between sleep and our health, and Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It, an investigative doc considering the social, political and economic impact of bitcoin’s sensational rise. RELATED
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