
DocuBay, the premium international documentary VOD streaming service by IN10 Media Group, announces a license deal with Ananda Media, the France-based global distributor of action sports and adventure travel programming. The license deal features award-winning titles shot in 4K and from a wide range of topics including Latino boxing culture, solo Arctic sailors, adventure climbing, and the sport of aerial silks. All the films will be available for streaming on DocuBay when the service launches globally in August 2019.
Notable titles acquired from Ananda Media include award-winning features like Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World, a feature about a crew of miscreants sailing on a 120-foot hand-built sailboat across 8,000 miles from New Zealand to Patagonia; Food Patriots, a feature chronicling one family’s attempt at shifting away from processed foods to more fresh, local and organic choices after their son battles an antibiotic superbug; Vertical Belles explores an all-female aerial silks group in a small Canadian town and the journey of this death-defying artistry; and El Boxeo, the award-nominated feature of the emergence and dominance of Latinos in boxing, once a traditional all-white sport.
Notable 4K titles acquired include Una – The One, a feature following the story of the endangered Una River in the Balkan region; The British Backpacker Society: Across the Sahara, an adventure story of a young group of British backpackers using any means necessary to reach the shoreline of Senegal; and Running For Good: The Fiona Oakes Documentary, a feature by award-winning director Keegan Kuhn that follows world record marathon runner Fiona Oakes in her attempt to set a new global record in endurance racing.