Zodiak Rights, the international division of Zodiak Media, and StoryVault Films have signed an extension to their first-look deal agreement, the Companies announced today.
Portrait Artist of the Year
StoryVault Films joined Zodiak Rights roster of First-look clients in 2012 and this extension to their deal will include new UK recommissions Me & My Guide Dog (2 x 60’,ITV1) following the successful first film of last year and a second series of Sky Arts ratings smash Portrait Artist of the Year (8×60’ & 1×90’). Zodiak Rights will be representing Portrait Artist of the Year as both format and finished programming. Other StoryVault Films programming already represented by Zodiak includes, Judith Kerr: Hitler, The Tiger & Me (BBC, 1×60’), Diana: Her Story The Book That Changed Everything (Sky Arts, 1×60’), The Hay Sessions (Sky Arts, 18×60’) and long-running Sky series The Book Show.
Recent sales include BBC Worldwide (Africa & Poland) picking up Diana: Her Story The Book That Changed Everything as have Foxtel (Australia) who have also picked up Judith Kerr: Hitler, The Tiger & Me. Foxtel and Sky’s The Arts Channel (NZ) have also picked up the first (7 hours) and second series of Portrait Artist of the Year and Sky (NZ) have also taken 40 hours of The Book Show (series 6,7 & 8).
London-based StoryVault Films specializes in factual, factual entertainment and drama-documentary formats and was founded in 2010.
Andreas Lemos, VP Acquisitions, Zodiak Rights London said,“We are delighted to be renewing our relationship with Storyvault Films, particularly at such an exciting juncture with a raft of new commissions and the establishment of Portrait Artist of The Year as a stand-out, returning brand, which we are putting our full muscle behind both as finished episodes and format.”
First-look producers represented by Zodiak Rights include; 999: What’s Your Emergency? (6 x 60’ Channel 4) production company Blast! Films , Bristol-based Oblong Films, acclaimed film-maker Sue Bourne’s Wellpark Productions, Manchester-based Nine Lives Media, Special Edition Films and the RTS Award winning Minnow Films (Best Single Documentary 7/7: One Day In London – BBC Two, 1 x 90’).
Zodiak Rights will be taking StoryVaults new programming to MIPCOM next month.
