Cannes , France – Event TV movie Peter and Wendy, starring Stanley Tucci, Laura Fraser and Paloma Faith, has won the Best Kids TV Movie or Mini-Series award at the 2017 International Emmy Kids Awards. The award was collected by the show’s producers, Christian Baute and Stewart Mackinnon, of Headline Pictures.
Distributed by Red Arrow International, recent sales of Peter and Wendy include a deal with FOX Networks Group (FNG) Latin America, for their pan-regional FOX Premium Family channel across Latin America. The acclaimed TV movie has also sold to a raft of other territories including RTL Germany for Vox channels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) Content Group in the UK; eOne Films Australia; and France, Africa, Japan, the Philippines, Israel, Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Hungary.
Henrik Pabst, Managing Director of Red Arrow International, said, “I am delighted that Peter and Wendy is getting the recognition it truly deserves by winning the prestigious International Emmy Kids Award. The movie has really cut through with buyers internationally, and I would like to congratulate Headline Pictures, Catalyst Global Media and the whole production team on winning this fantastic international award.”
Peter and Wendy is a magical family adventure, based on J.M. Barrie’s much-loved classic Peter Pan, and features an all-star cast and a creative team that includes BAFTA-winning writer Adrian Hodges (“My Week with Marilyn“) and BAFTA winning director Diarmuid Lawrence (“Little Dorrit“). The movie is produced by Headline Pictures (“The Man in the High Castle“, “Quartet“).
The movie premiered on ITV in the UK and won immediate press and audience acclaim, with the Sunday Times calling the movie “an unmissable, beautiful work” and the Telegraph saying that “no recent version of Peter Pan has so boldly interpreted Neverland”. Peter & Wendy is produced by Headline Pictures in association with Juliette Films and Catalyst Global Media in partnership with Lipsync Productions, the Luxembourg Film Fund and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity for ITV.
