All3media International will attend its first Asia Television Forum &Market (ATF) since the opening of the company’s new Singapore sales office, established to manage all completed programming and format sales across the Asia Pacific region. At ATF, all3media International will showcase a host of new content and formats, and will also sponsor the highly-anticipated inaugural ATF Formats Pitch competition.
Japan-Singapore Coproduction Jimami Tofu Secures Funding and Global Distribution. Written, directed and produced by Jason Chan and Christian Lee, Jimami Tofu, a romantic feature set in Okinawa and Singapore has secured production funding and global distribution. Set to finish principal photography in early December it will be BananaMana Films’ first full length feature but has garnered pre-sale agreements with international distributors including Korean media giant IHQ, Japanese global TV platform VIKI and Encore Inflight. The film is led by an international cast including Jason Chan, Mari Yamamoto, Rino Nakasone, Masane Tsukayama, Christian Lee and many prominent Okinawan actors.
CAKE to launch new programmes at ATF this year including the second season of award-winning pre-school series Space Racers. Deutsche Welle’s releases new programme Need to Compete and announce that Deutsche Welle is now in HD. Fox Networks Group Content Distribution (FNGCD) unveiled its diverse programming slate for this year’s Asia Television Forum spanning across series and formats from National Geographic, FX and Fox Networks Channels featuring recently renewed FX comedy/drama freshman series Atlanta, climate change documentary Before the Flood featuring Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio, epic series Mars from executive producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and Killing Reagan produced by Scott Free Productions as well as popular new and returning Turkish dramas Wings of Love and That is My Life. Globo will attend the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) in Singapore on December 7-9. During the event, the Brazilian network will unveil two new releases to the Asian market Total Dreamer and Time After Time. Kyoto Broadcasting System will be attending ATF for the first time this year and will be presenting contents about the World Heritage & National Treasure, Washoku, Japanese traditional Maiko (Geisha), Japanese pop-culture animations and other variety contents. MNC Media’s Kiko win Best Children’s Animation at Indonesia Panasonic Gobel Award 2016. Mondo TV highlights five new projects, Invention Story, Adventures in Duckport, Heidi, Bienvenida A Casa, Eddie is a Yeti and The Treasure Island. Harlan Coben’s The Five heads to Asia in new StudioCanal deal with Wowow..PopJam the #1 kids’ social content platform by SuperAwesome, is coming to ASEAN & Australia. SuperAwesome releases its annual APAC Kids Digital Insights. SuperAwesome’s Asia raises $2M to launch kids digital content business. Tech Storm , the entrepreneur TV for made-in-Asia entrepreneurs and their inventions arrives at Asian TV Forum 2016.
Viacom 18/IndiaCast network’s flagship channel “Colors” has been a category definer in the Indian Entertainment genre and is known for bringing in the most differentiated drama series as well as block buster non-scripted/reality shows. It has a reach in over 135 countries and licensed content in more than 20 languages (including , Bahasa, Khmer, Burmese, Thai, Hebrew, Russian, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Macedonian, Croatian, Azeri, Kazakh, Swahili, and English among others). Balika Vadhu (The Young Bride), Uttaran (Second Hand) are its top performing series, raking in high ratings. Right in their footsteps are other series such as Naagin, Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat, which have met with the same response from the audiences especially those in Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia. Its recently launched new titles include Shani – The God of Karma and Shakti – The Force, which are captivating the audiences in India. The series will be avaiable on TV channels in Indonesia in mid-2017.
