International television forum Asia TV Forum & Market Online+ (ATF) has completed its work. This year the fully digital market featured Russian delegation of 22 productions, distributors and post-production companies, 19 of them working at the joint virtual “Made in Moscow” stand.

The digital edition of Asia TV Forum & Market gathered 3000 participants representing 1200 companies from 58 countries, including 800 content buyers.

“China remains one of the main buyers of Russian content in Asia, but at ATF companies expand their presence and are now discussing deals with India, Korea, Malaysia, countries of Southeast Asia. The participants presented their projects in development and in production, which allows distributors to get feedback from buyers at the early stage and adapt the product and its package to the international target audience. And it's not only about content line-up: national participants also offered production and post-production services, sound design, content localization, subtitling, dubbing, having reached agreements with global content producers at the market and proved the high quality of work in this sector. Our participants will be holding more negotiations this week, with over 80 meetings planned for ATF in general,” said Evgenia Markova, CEO of ROSKINO.

The Made in Moscow virtual stand brought together 19 Moscow-based companies including Sreda production company, Revolution Film, Documentary Film Center, ODIN-MEDIA, R Media. Animated content was presented by Soyuzmultfilm, Wizart Animation, brand4rent, Digital Television, Parovoz studio, Agama Film, Media Basis, Open Alliance Media, and AA Studio. Post-production services were offered by Flysound, Main Road Post, Flussonic, RuFilms, and Sv-kadr.

Apart from the Made in Moscow delegation, GPM ETV, Sovtelexport (the official distributor of the Russia Television and Radio content), animation company Riki Group and NTV also presented their projects.

Odin-Media has sold the documentaries The Great North Way and Land of Bears to China. The company's most popular documentaries The Great North Way and Urartu. The Forgotten Kingdom were selected by a state Italian channel for putting on the 2021 broadcasting schedule – Odin-Media plans to close the deal with Italy for these projects soon. The Great North Way also received an offer from an OTT distributor from the United States and Canada.

International buyers showed great interest in Invisible Hope - the company has begun negotiations with new partners from India, Malaysia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Germany, Belgium and France, and in the TV-show Combat Approved, which was already sold to Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Japan and USA. The company has started sales negotiations on the drama series Newbie with distributors and TV channels from China, India, Germany, as well as with the VOD platform from Nigeria.

Moreover, Odin-Media has got a commercial offer on the line-up of documentary and feature series from Serbian Distributor. TV-series Zhukov, Vlasik. The Shadow of Stalin will most likely be released next year, as well as the war drama Dzhulbars – the Soviet War Dog, the documentary series Armageddon, Hazardous World, Revolution. The Time of Great Changes, Mysteries of Space, Incredible Science and The Great Battles.

CCTV, the largest public broadcaster in China, has acquired a lineup of projects from the official Russia Television and Radio content distributor Sovtelexport. Among them are documentaries about World War II Victory Day, Leningrad: Day 901, Liberation, Life at War, TV shows Best Songs of 2016 and Best Songs of 2017, as well as a documentary film Up to the Sky. Sovtelexport also signed a licensing agreement on the series Ekaterina: Season 2 with China Southern Airlines, which also considers buying the sequel Ekaterina: Pretenders. The company is in the final stage of negotiations on a deal with the South Korean licensing company for the TV series And Quiet Flows the Don and is discussing the sale of digital rights for all seasons of the TV series Ekaterina with the Japanese VOD-platform Hulu.

During ATF Online+ Riki Group sold the rights to distribute the animated series The Fixies to PTS in Taiwan. The agreement was negotiated by a sales agent for the TV series Play Big. The series will air on PTS nationwide, PTS 3, and PTS Taigi. The company also received exclusive rights to broadcast on free television. Besides, a deal with a Hong Kong TV channel will be announced soon based on the results of the Asian market.

Soyuzmultfilm will soon announce several deals with China for a slate of animated short films and TV series Claymotions, Mr Theo, Cat & Dog, and The Adventures of Peter and Wolf. Animated series Rockoons, Claymotions, The Secrets of the Honey Hills have also aroused the interest of Asian buyers, many of them are looking forward to the premiere of the new I’ll get you! series.

Russian licensing agency brand4rent is in negotiations with Korea to show Monsikids, which has already been released in China following a deal with Beijing Joy Culture Media. brand4rent also presented the animated series Flora & Team by Klaxon Production - the project received positive reviews from buyers. Currently, the company is preparing direct deals with the platforms.